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  • July 30, 2025

    Slater And Gordon Swings To Profit Despite Revenue Drop

    Slater and Gordon Ltd. has swung back to recording a pretax profit even though revenue declined as it manages costs and repositions to focus on higher-value and more complex legal services.

  • July 30, 2025

    BigLaw Firms Ordered To Explain Leak Of PrivatBank Decision

    Law firms including Hogan Lovells and Fieldfisher LLP will be required to provide witness statements after the High Court judge overseeing the long-running PrivatBank fraud case revealed on Wednesday that his judgment had apparently been leaked.

  • July 30, 2025

    Pharma Tech Co. Diaceutics Hires Former Sandoz Atty As GC

    Pharmaceutical technology company Diaceutics PLC has hired a lawyer with in-house experience at Sandoz and Novartis as its general counsel.

  • July 30, 2025

    Burness Paull Posts £94M Revenue Amid Growth Across Firm

    Scottish law firm Burness Paull LLP has posted revenue of around £94 million ($125.4 million) amid growth across its key practice areas.

  • July 29, 2025

    Oft-Penalized Deutsche Bank Finds New GC From Freshfields

    Deutsche Bank AG on Tuesday said a senior partner at Freshfields LLP who specializes in corporate criminal defense will become its new general counsel on Sept. 15.

  • July 29, 2025

    Solicitor Denies Antisemitic Intent With Offensive Tweets

    A solicitor told a disciplinary tribunal Tuesday that he did not intend any of his social media posts to be antisemitic, arguing that although his posts were admittedly "offensive" and "childish" he intended only to criticize the state of Israel.

  • July 29, 2025

    SRA Fines Law Firms For Not Doing AML Reviews On Clients

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined a London law firm £114,000 ($152,000) and agreed on a £25,000 penalty for a regional firm over failures to carry out money laundering risk assessments on their clients.

  • July 29, 2025

    Osborne Clarke's UK Revenue Tops £250M For 1st Time

    Osborne Clarke LLP said Tuesday that its U.K. business has posted record-breaking revenue of more than £250 million ($333 million) for the financial year ending in April while profits in Britain have also scaled new heights.

  • July 29, 2025

    Gateley Appoints Ex-Cleary Partner To Board Of Directors

    Gateley PLC has said that it has appointed a former Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP litigator and an ex-executive at Morgan Stanley and Google to its board of directors, as part of the firm's broader growth strategy.

  • July 29, 2025

    Law Firm Wins Appeal To Nix Ex-Solicitor's Commission

    A law firm won its appeal on Tuesday against a ruling that it owes a former solicitor unpaid commission, as an appeals tribunal found there was no chance he would have exceeded his billing targets once the involvement of partners and trainees in his work was considered.

  • July 29, 2025

    Labour Settles Defamation Case Over Antisemitism Report

    The Labour Party has agreed to compensate a former councilor and a group of ex-employees following the leak of a defamatory report on how the party's internal disciplinary body mishandled allegations of antisemitism, a lawyer for the individuals said Tuesday.

  • July 29, 2025

    Sara Cockerill Named New Deputy Head Of Civil Justice

    The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary said Tuesday that Justice Sara Cockerill has been appointed to serve as the new deputy head of civil justice, a position she will fill for three years when she is promoted to the Court of Appeal.

  • July 29, 2025

    Travers Smith Boosts NQ Pay To £130K As Pay Hikes Continue

    Travers Smith LLP said Tuesday that it has increased base salaries for newly qualified lawyers to £130,000 ($173,000) as Mishcon de Reya LLP and Stephenson Harwood LLP also hiked pay for new solicitors.

  • August 04, 2025

    Travers Smith To Lose Leveraged Finance Head To Goodwin

    Goodwin Procter LLP said Monday that it has hired Travers Smith's head of leveraged finance to strengthen its growing private equity practice in London.

  • July 28, 2025

    Simmons & Simmons Says AI Key Factor In £615M Revenue

    Simmons & Simmons LLP on Monday announced revenue of £615 million ($823 million) for the past financial year, citing its lawyers' use of artificial intelligence as a notable factor in its growth.

  • July 28, 2025

    Ex-Ashurst, Eversheds Lawyer Barred For Child Sex Offenses

    A former lawyer at Ashurst LLP and Eversheds Sutherland has been banned from practicing as a solicitor after he was convicted by a criminal court of committing child sexual offenses, a tribunal in London has said.

  • July 28, 2025

    Leicester Atty Suspended For Filing 'Meritless' Lawsuits

    A disciplinary tribunal has said it suspended a partner at Leicester-based firm Deals & Disputes Solicitors LLP for a year after finding he submitted multiple "meritless" applications.

  • July 28, 2025

    Ex-Solicitor Loses Appeal Over £175K Client Fund Transfers

    A former solicitor failed on Monday to overturn a decision to strike him from the profession for moving more than £175,000 ($235,000) from his firm's client account into its office account after a suspected arson attack on its premises devastated its profits.

  • July 28, 2025

    Ex-Capsticks Partner Barred For Misleading Client On Costs

    A former housing partner at Capsticks Solicitors LLP has been banned from practicing as a solicitor after he failed to provide complete and accurate information to a client about its liability to pay costs and interest after he missed a court deadline.

  • July 28, 2025

    Ward Hadaway Expands By Acquiring Teesside Law Firm

    Ward Hadaway said Monday it has bought commercial law firm Endeavour Partnership to grow its revenue and presence in the northeast of England.

  • July 28, 2025

    SocGen Settles €140M Clifford Chance Negligence Claim

    Société Générale SA and Clifford Chance LLP have settled their €140 million ($163.3 million) dispute over the bank's allegations that the law firm gave negligent advice that caused its claim in a multimillion-dollar dispute over gold bullion to be struck out as an abuse of process.

  • July 25, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen the owner of a £6 million ($8 million) mansion once rented by Adele sue real estate consultants Strutt & Parker, Romanian-Australian mining investor Vasile Frank Timis bring a claim against reputation and privacy firm Schillings, and a Chinese businessman bring a legal action against his former lawyer over an alleged £12.5 million mortgage fraud.

  • July 25, 2025

    Ex-RAF Officer Wins Bid To Pursue Sex Discrimination Claims

    A former Royal Air Force officer who alleges a commodore told her he could "feel the emotion" after she raised a complaint can continue to pursue her sex discrimination claims against her former employer, according to an Employment Tribunal judgment published Friday.

  • July 25, 2025

    BSB Names Ex-CILEX Leader Christopher Bones As Chair

    The Bar Standards Board said Friday that it has appointed a former chair of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and an experienced board director from the business world as its next chair.

  • July 25, 2025

    Taylor Rose Denies Negligence Caused Property Co. Losses

    Taylor Rose Ltd. has fought back against a negligence claim by a former client worth around £340,000 ($456,000), saying that the firm's failure to exchange contracts in a London real estate transaction did not cause it to suffer meaningful damage, according to newly-public filings.

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