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  Skadden Promotes 55 New Partners In Latest Round

  By Ashish Sareen

  Skadden has selected 55 lawyers from across the firm to move up and become partners, increasing its intakes in r...(read more)

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  Bird & Bird Reelects CEO Bartsch For 4 More Years

  By Ashish Sareen

  Bird & Bird LLP said Wednesday that its partnership has reelected Christian Bartsch as the law firm's chief exec...(read more)

• Judge Warned Over 2 Late Rulings, But AI Use Not Found

  By Eddie Beaver

  A London court judge has received a formal warning after a probe by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office found that delays in handing down two rulings amounted to misconduct but uncovered no evidence that he used artificial intelligence to draft a judgment.

• DLA Piper's London MP To Join Eversheds Sutherland

  By Ashish Sareen

  Eversheds Sutherland said Wednesday that it has hired the managing partner of DLA Piper's office in London and another lawyer from the firm to boost its services to clients in intellectual property disputes.

• Fieldfisher Promotes 12 Lawyers To Partner

  By Ashish Sareen

  Fieldfisher LLP said Wednesday that it has promoted 12 lawyers to be partners at its offices in Europe, with its latest intake including experts in corporate, dispute resolution and real estate.

• Gov't Pledges Additional £4.5M For LawTechUK Through 2029

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it will continue funding LawTechUK over the next three years and will commit £1.5 million ($2 million) a year to the program designed to boost the legal sector's contribution to the national economy.

• Relief As Mazur Appeal Restores Certainty Over Legal Work

  By Joanne Faulkner

  A Court of Appeal ruling which clarified that litigation work can be carried out by non-authorized staff under proper supervision restores certainty to the legal sector after months of disruption, lawyers say. 

• Barristers Call For Specialist Courts Over Jury Trial Curbs

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Barristers' groups urged the government on Tuesday to prioritize the creation of specialist courts for sexual and domestic abuse cases rather than curbing jury trials as a way of reducing the Crown Court backlog.

• Court Of Appeal Reverses Mazur Ruling On Litigation Rights

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The Court of Appeal said Tuesday that supervised non-solicitors can carry out litigation work, reversing a landmark judgment and offering reassurances to some law firms whose operating models have faced scrutiny.

• AI Reshapes Junior Lawyer Roles In Training And Hiring

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Artificial intelligence is forcing law firms in the U.K. and elsewhere to rethink how junior lawyers are trained, deployed and hired as use of the technology gathers pace, creating demand for new skills at entry level.

• UK Regulators To Target Poor Motor Finance Claims Practices

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said Monday that it has launched a joint taskforce with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and other regulators to tackle poor handling of claims for motor finance compensation by some claims management companies and law firms.

• DLA Piper's London Office Managing Partner To Leave Firm

  By Ashish Sareen

  The managing partner of DLA Piper's office in London is set to depart as a partnership vote looms on changing the structure of the firm.

• BigLaw Races To Capture Expanding Fund Finance Market

  By Kevin Penton

  Debt financing work at the fund level has long been dominated on the lender side by attorneys from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP, but other firms are increasingly crafting formal practices and poaching fund finance stars from the more established players.

• Crown Court Backlog Tops 80K As Gov't Promises Action

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The Ministry of Justice has said the number of cases awaiting trial at Crown Courts in England and Wales has climbed above 80,000 for the first time as the government said it would pull "every lever" to cut the growing backlog.