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  UK Budget Lowers Apprentice Costs For Smaller Law Firms

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Small and midsized law firms in England were given a welcome boost when the chancellor revealed in her Budget st...(read more)

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  Osborne Pro Fights To Reverse SDT's Zahawi SLAPPs Ruling

  By Ronan Barnard

  An Osborne Clarke partner urged a court on Thursday to overturn a ruling by a disciplinary tribunal that he had ...(read more)

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• The Revolving Door: MoFo, Gibson Dunn On City Hiring Spree

  By Laura Stewart Liberty

  Over the past week, MoFo hired HSF Kramer's head of international private equity, Stephenson Harwood tapped a tax expert from French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, and A&O Shearman lost an employment expert to Gibson Dunn.

• Bar Council, BSB Team Up To Enforce Anti-Harassment Rules

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Bar Council and Bar Standards Board have formed a joint steering group to implement recommendations from an independent review that found a culture of "impunity" and "collusive bystanding" around bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar.

• LSB Proposes Framework To Boost Diversity In Legal Sector

  By Tom Fish

  The Legal Services Board launched a public consultation on Thursday into a draft policy statement aimed at driving greater equality, diversity and inclusion within the legal sector.

• Bar Council Flags AI Pitfalls After High Court Rebuke

  By Ashish Sareen

  The Bar Council has updated its ethics guidance on the use of generative artificial intelligence at the bar after the High Court issued a sharp reminder earlier this year of the dangers of lawyers relying on the technology in court.

• Law Firms Spared Partnership Tax Grab In UK Budget

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The absence of a rumored increase in national insurance contributions for limited liability partnerships in the chancellor's U.K. budget statement on Wednesday suggested that the proposal might have been quietly shelved after heavy lobbying from the legal sector.

• White & Case Promotes 14 Lawyers To Local Partner Roles

  By Ashish Sareen

  White & Case said Wednesday that it has elevated 14 lawyers from across the globe to local partner, a position that the law firm offers in certain regions and locations as a step toward admission into its partnership.

• Earnings Gap Between Male And Female Barristers Widens

  By Tom Fish

  The body that represents barristers has disclosed persistent and widening gender pay gaps across nearly all career stages and practice areas as it published its annual report for 2025 on gross earnings for self-employed lawyers.

• Weil Elects 17 New Partners In US, Europe

  By Ashish Sareen

  Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has elected 17 lawyers to join its partnership as part of a wider round of promotions in which the firm has also boosted its counsel numbers.

• CILEX Wins Permission To Challenge Mazur Ruling

  By William Janes

  The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has won permission to appeal against the ruling known as Mazur, which affirmed that legal executives and other unauthorized law firm staff could not conduct litigation, even with the supervision of a solicitor.

• Law Society Warns Of Litigation-Funding Risks After SSB Case

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Law Society has urged the professional watchdog to conduct "robust checks" on the stability of law firm financing to help avoid another SSB Group-style collapse, warning of the risk posed by the third-party litigation-funding model.

• Scottish Lawyers Push To End Reform Delays After 15 Years

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  A group of Scottish lawyers launched a campaign on Monday to end what it calls "regulatory inertia" over alternative business structures, 15 years after legislation paved the way for their introduction in the British nation.

• Pogust's Brazil Shipwreck Case Stalls Over Authority Doubts

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Pogust Goodhead's ability to litigate on behalf of around 18,000 Brazilians following a shipwreck has been thrown into doubt after the 5-year-old case was stayed pending questions over whether the firm is authorized, recently published court documents have revealed.