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  • April 01, 2025

    Ex-SFO Bribery Chief Rappo Exits Reed Smith After 21 Months

    A former joint head of the Serious Fraud Office's bribery and corruption unit has left Reed Smith LLP after less than two years working as a partner for its global regulatory investigation and enforcement practice.

  • April 01, 2025

    Fieldfisher Promotes 13 Partners Amid European Expansion

    Fieldfisher LLP said Tuesday that it has promoted more than a dozen lawyers in Europe to its partnership, an increase of almost a third on the previous year as it expands its business on the Continent.

  • April 01, 2025

    Candey Denies Mishandling Client's Funds In Libel Dispute

    Disputes firm Candey Ltd. has denied a claim by a former client that it mishandled her money following a settlement in a trademark dispute, while pressing home its allegation that her one-star Google review of its performance was defamatory.

  • April 01, 2025

    Birketts Promotes 5 Lawyers To Partnership

    Birketts LLP said Tuesday that almost all the lawyers it moved up to the partnership in its latest promotions round are women, although it halved its overall intake of new partners.

  • March 31, 2025

    LSB Defends Oversight Amid Watchdogs' Poor Ratings

    The Legal Services Board defended its supervisory system on Monday, despite the fact that only one of the eight watchdogs passed their annual performance assessment.

  • March 31, 2025

    Telecom Manager Can't Use Privileged Exchange In Bias Claim

    An employment tribunal has ruled that an ex-staffer can't rely on a privileged document she mistakenly received from her bosses' solicitors because they weren't scheming against her and scrapped her entire case over her "malicious" actions.

  • March 31, 2025

    Judge Sanctioned For Comments To Tribunal Members

    Britain's judicial conduct watchdog has sanctioned an employment judge for telling the nonlegal members of a panel that they were there to make the complainant "feel satisfied."

  • March 31, 2025

    Boult Wade Atty Named Chief Of IP Group's UK Arm

    A European intellectual property union has named a Boult Wade Tennant LLP partner as the new president of its British group.

  • March 31, 2025

    'Still Early Days': A Litigation Funder Stays Optimistic

    As part of a series of interviews with lawyers, class representatives and litigation-funders to mark the 10-year anniversary of the collective proceedings order regime, Law360 spoke to Neil Purslow of Therium Capital Management about the future of litigation funding for CPOs in the wake of the Supreme Court's PACCAR ruling.

  • March 31, 2025

    DAC Beachcroft Hires 3 Real Estate Pros From Macfarlanes

    DAC Beachcroft LLP has snapped up a team of three real estate specialists from Macfarlanes LLP to boost its services to clients in commercial development projects.

  • March 31, 2025

    Vardy Accuses Rooney Lawyers Of Misleading Court On Costs

    Rebekah Vardy accused Coleen Rooney's lawyers on Monday of understating the amount of costs Rooney had incurred in fighting the high-stakes libel battle between the two footballers wives, as she attempts to reduce the amount of costs for which she is liable. 

  • March 31, 2025

    Simmons & Simmons To Move To Bigger Office In London

    Simmons & Simmons LLP said Monday that it is relocating to a larger office in London in 2030 in a move to ensure that it is well-placed to meet the future needs of its growing business.

  • March 31, 2025

    Akin Appoints White & Case Lawyer For Middle East Boost

    Akin has hired Jennifer Riddle from White & Case as a project finance partner, a move it believes will bolster its growth plans for the Middle East.

  • March 31, 2025

    SRA Gets 1st Red Rating From Legal Services Board

    The Legal Services Board turned up the heat on the Solicitors Regulation Authority on Monday, describing the legal watchdog's performance as "insufficient" following its handling of the Axiom Ince Ltd. collapse.

  • March 28, 2025

    Freeths Joins 3-Firm Frasers Group Legal Panel

    Freeths LLP said Friday that it has been appointed to Frasers Group PLC's real estate panel, which includes Eversheds Sutherland and Browne Jacobson LLP.

  • March 28, 2025

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

    This past week in London has seen sparkling winemaker Nyetimber hit a rival distillery with an intellectual property claim, Newcastle United's former owner Mike Ashley target the club's ex-vice president for damages tied to a fraudulent investment, and a real estate agency file a legal claim against law firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • March 28, 2025

    'We Didn't Have A Precedent': Lawyers Test New Regime

    As part of a series of interviews with lawyers, class representatives and litigation-funders to mark the 10-year anniversary of the collective proceedings order regime, Law360 spoke to Boris Bronfentrinker and Ricky Versteeg — lawyers on opposite sides of the courtroom — about the watershed Mastercard swipe fees case.

  • March 28, 2025

    The Revolving Door: Baker McKenzie Hires McDermott, Euclid Pros

    Over the past week, Baker McKenzie brought on M&A and antitrust pros, Lionsgate's former general counsel joined Gunnercooke as partner, and White & Case lost an international team to Paul Hastings.

  • April 04, 2025

    Baker McKenzie Boosts M&A Team With Ex-McDermott Pro

    Baker McKenzie has boosted its London team with the appointment of a senior corporate lawyer from McDermott Will & Emery LLP who specializes in transactions in the life sciences and technology sectors.

  • March 28, 2025

    Winston & Strawn Ups NQ Lawyers' Pay In London To £160K

    Winston & Strawn LLP has raised the salaries of newly qualified lawyers in its London office to £160,000 ($207,000), the law firm said Friday as it steps up its efforts to secure junior talent in a hot hiring market.

  • March 27, 2025

    Oligarch's Ex-Wife Ends Payne Hicks Negligence Case

    A Russian oligarch's former wife has ended a negligence action against Payne Hicks Beach LLP over claims it failed to exercise the proper care and skill in a divorce battle involving the oligarch's £200 million ($260 million) yacht.

  • March 27, 2025

    'A Challenge We Have To Rise To': Class Reps Take The Stage

    Launching a series of interviews with lawyers, class representatives and litigation-funders to mark the 10-year anniversary of the collective proceedings order regime, Law360 spoke to Justin Gutmann and Rachael Kent about how the role of class reps has evolved in the decade since CPOs were introduced

  • March 27, 2025

    Key Moments That Formed The UK's Class Action Regime

    The U.K.'s collective proceedings regime — introduced a decade ago — has grown rapidly after a slow start. Law360 looks here at the biggest moments of the regime so far and what's ahead.

  • March 27, 2025

    Court Backlog To Soar To 100K Cases By 2029, Gov't Warns

    The U.K. government announced a record high Crown Court backlog Thursday, warning that if the crisis continues at its current rate then 100,000 cases could be waiting to be heard by the end of 2029.

  • March 27, 2025

    Law Firm Fined £25K For Being 13 Years Late On AML Rules

    A law firm has been fined almost £25,000 ($32,400) for not being fully compliant with anti-money laundering regulations for more than a decade, which the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said fell below what the public would expect from a legal business.

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