The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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November 05, 2026
A&O Shearman said on Thursday that it would invest $1.1 billion in artificial intelligence over the next five years as part of a strategy to transform how it delivers legal services across the business.
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November 04, 2026
Luminance is promoting its lead data privacy and product counsel to serve as the U.K. software company's new data protection officer, the company has announced.
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November 04, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's proposed wind-down could leave its London partnership with continuing obligations to clients, employees and creditors long after departing lawyers have joined rival firms, legal and regulatory specialists say.
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November 04, 2026
Manchester-based Express Solicitors Ltd. said Wednesday it has acquired fellow personal injury firm Ralli Ltd., as it continues to implement a growth strategy with backing from its private equity investor.
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November 04, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has said it has strengthened its oversight of high-risk law firms following the collapse of the PM Law group, but acknowledged that it cannot yet supervise all firms that pose a heightened risk to consumers.
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November 04, 2026
Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.
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November 03, 2026
A professional footballer sought nearly £165,000 ($221,000) in wasted costs from Irwin Mitchell LLP on Tuesday, after the firm accepted that a former Irwin Mitchell solicitor negligently withheld documents from the Football Association that were relevant to the midfielder's racism claim.
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November 03, 2026
A senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service has admitted to citing a made-up legal precedent during a High Court review over a child defendant, the agency's second slip-up this year over false submissions.
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November 03, 2026
The Legal Ombudsman is expecting to receive more than 21,000 new complaints about lawyers during the financial year ending in 2028, as growing demand for help increasingly outpaces its capacity to resolve complaints.
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November 03, 2026
Ampa Group announced Tuesday that it has appointed a long-serving commercial litigator as its new chief executive after removing its previous leader following an investigation.
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November 03, 2026
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP announced Tuesday that it has promoted 15 lawyers to partner across eight offices in Europe and the U.S.
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November 03, 2026
Ashurst Perkins Coie has hired an infrastructure finance partner from Freshfields LLP, marking the latest in a series of recent departures from the Magic Circle firm.
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November 03, 2026
Latham has hired five trainee solicitors from Weil, offering salaries up to 17% higher than its rival's amid a recruitment drive following the proposed closure of Weil's London office, a source close to the matter said Tuesday.
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November 03, 2026
A tribunal has refused to throw out a barrister's discrimination claim against his former chambers and multiple individuals, ruling in a decision released Tuesday that his claim is not bound to fail.
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November 03, 2026
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has largely succeeded in arguing that legal privilege applies to internal documents amid an HM Revenue & Customs probe into payments made by its U.K. branch to its U.S. body.
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November 03, 2026
A producer who claims to be behind Gabrielle's hit track "Dreams" has sued Universal in a London court, alleging that fraud and the concealment of evidence tainted a 1996 copyright case that saw him lose out on royalties.
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November 03, 2026
A disciplinary tribunal has ordered a London-based sole practitioner to pay more than £57,000 ($76,000), finding that he had improperly transferred client money, acted without integrity and failed to maintain adequate anti-money-laundering controls.
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November 03, 2026
A prominent co-leader of the real estate practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is joining Goodwin Procter LLP as his former firm begins to wind down operations, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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November 03, 2026
The Legal Services Board said Tuesday that it has appointed a new director of regulatory oversight and made two other senior hires to strengthen its scrutiny of frontline watchdogs as it moves toward a more proportionate and targeted approach to supervision.
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November 03, 2026
A former solicitor and adviser to Bernie Ecclestone, the ex-chief executive of Formula One, pleaded not guilty to tax fraud in London on Tuesday over allegations that he lied to HM Revenue and Customs about his ability to pay back taxes.
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November 02, 2026
A property lender has accused Taylor Rose of failing to pay land charges on a London property that a borrower was refinancing, forcing it to discharge them instead to the tune of £251,394 ($337,177).
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November 02, 2026
Uncertainty over what counts as artificial intelligence "influencing" witness evidence could complicate proposed safeguards on its use in court documents, lawyers say, as even routine preparation and research could potentially fall within the guidance.
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November 02, 2026
A law firm has denied owing a property investment company £1.2 million ($1.6 million) after it acted for scammers who pretended to be the owners of a house during a fraudulent property sale.
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November 02, 2026
DWF LLP said Monday it has retained more than 90% of the lawyers who qualified at the firm in 2026, with more than a third of those retained based in its offices in northwest England.
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November 02, 2026
A tribunal has rejected a sales manager's bid to top up his award to include time he spent preparing his case, finding to be reasonable an employment law consultancy's threat to seek legal costs if he pursued his wrongful dismissal claim.