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July 04, 2024
Foot Anstey's IP Leaders Exit To Launch Boutique
The former heads of Foot Anstey LLP's intellectual property team have set up their own shop with the help of Excello Law, launching a full-service IP boutique based in Manchester and London in response to a changing legal landscape.
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June 27, 2024
Macfarlanes Ups NQ Pay To £140K Amid Battle For New Talent
Macfarlanes LLP said on Thursday that compensation for its newly qualified lawyers will jump by more than 20% to £140,000 ($177,044), with trainee solicitors also getting a double-digit pay rise, as a salary war over junior talent continues to escalate.
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June 26, 2024
Baker McKenzie Promotes 66 To Partner In 2024
Baker McKenzie said Wednesday that 66 lawyers are being promoted to partnerships in 2024, its smallest yearly intake of newly elevated partners in a decade, though it has also hired nearly 50 partners over the past year.
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June 26, 2024
Mobile Forensics Co. ModeOne Adds UK-Based Data Center
Mobile forensics company ModeOne announced on Wednesday an expansion of its services in the United Kingdom through the launch of a new London-based data center.
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June 26, 2024
Hogan Lovells Launches Online Reporting Portal For Staff
Hogan Lovells said Wednesday that it has launched a new tool to make it easier for staff members in the U.K. to report instances where they have been made to feel marginalized at work, in a move intended to enhance the firm's culture of inclusion.
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June 26, 2024
Mitie Settles £260M Prison Contract Award Dispute With Gov't
The U.K.'s Ministry of Justice has settled a claim brought by prison services contractor Mitie that accused the government of unlawfully awarding a £260 million ($328 million) prison management contract to its rival.
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June 26, 2024
SDT Should Have Granted Anonymity In Iraqi AML Probe
A London court has ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal should have granted an anonymity order to protect client privilege amid its probe into a solicitor's dealings with an Iraqi family, but the judge agreed that the lawyer did not breach anti-money laundering regulations.
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June 26, 2024
DLA Piper Launches Investment Management & Funds Practice
DLA Piper formally launched its global investment management and funds practice Wednesday to meet increasing client demand and align with market trends, supporting asset managers, fund sponsors and investors.
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July 03, 2024
Paul Hastings Adds 12-Lawyer White Collar Team In Paris
Paul Hastings LLP has boosted its capacity to advise clients on white collar cases and legal actions concerning environmental, social and governance matters by hiring a team of 12 lawyers from a specialist litigation and investigations firm in Paris.
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June 25, 2024
Harbottle & Lewis Surpasses £50M Mark For 1st Time
Harbottle & Lewis LLP on Tuesday revealed that it generated £51.9 million ($65.8 million) of income over its last financial year, marking the first time the London-based firm has exceeded the £50 million measure.
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June 25, 2024
Ashurst Latest Law Firm To Partner With AI Co. Harvey
London-headquartered international law firm Ashurst plans to provide all its 4,000 attorneys and staff with access to the legal artificial intelligence platform Harvey, the firm said Tuesday, making it one of the latest firms to partner with the company.
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June 25, 2024
Law Firm Faces £35M Suit Over Troubled Care Home Scheme
Liquidators for a now-defunct group of companies have accused a law firm of ignoring the signs that their client was defrauding investors out of millions of pounds through a luxury care home Ponzi scheme.
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June 25, 2024
SRA Board's Upcoming CILEX Decision Faces Uphill Battle
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is set to decide on proposals to take charge of overseeing legal executives at a board meeting Tuesday, with the plan facing an uphill battle in the teeth of strong opposition from the Law Society and others in the industry.
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July 02, 2024
Top White Collar Barrister Jumps Ship To Fountain Court
A top corporate crime barrister has joined Fountain Court Chambers to boost its offering to high-net-worth individuals and corporate defendants in major investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and other authorities, the set has said.
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July 02, 2024
Paul Hastings Hires Finance Pro Reena Gogna From Weil
Paul Hastings LLP has recruited a finance specialist from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in London to boost its offering to lenders in leveraged finance transactions and other complex deals.
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June 24, 2024
High Court Pay Not For Temp Judges, Master Of The Rolls Says
The master of the rolls told an employment tribunal Monday that permanent High Court judges are in a different category to those who occasionally take on High Court duties, weighing in on a claim brought by judges who say they should be paid the same wages as permanent judges when they periodically sit at the High Court.
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June 24, 2024
Ex-Luminance CEO Joins The Barrister Group As COO
The Barrister Group, which serves clients in England and Wales, announced on Monday the appointment of a chief operating officer with experience leading legal artificial intelligence co-pilot Luminance Technologies Ltd.
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June 24, 2024
Dentons' Inadvertent AML Error Wasn't SRA Misconduct
Dentons' U.K. arm failed in handling anti-money laundering checks on a politically exposed former client, but its oversight was entirely inadvertent and therefore did not amount to professional misconduct, a London tribunal has ruled.
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June 24, 2024
Herbert Smith Launches ESG Regulations Monitoring Tool
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP on Monday launched a tool designed to help businesses stay up to date with the evolving landscape of environmental, social and governance regulations and reporting requirements.
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June 24, 2024
Duane Morris Appoints New Immigration Law Chair
Philadelphia-based Duane Morris LLP announced on Friday the appointment of business immigration partner Ted J. Chiappari as chair of its immigration division, part of its employment, labor, benefits and immigration practice.
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June 24, 2024
Retired Judges Lose Appeal In Pension Row With MoJ
An appeals tribunal ruled Monday that the Ministry of Justice did not discriminate against three judges when it switched their pension schemes, ruling that their new judicial posts — rather than their part-time worker status — caused the change.
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June 24, 2024
Clifford Chance Launches Support Hub In Poland
Clifford Chance LLP said Monday that it has launched a new operational hub in Poland to further help its lawyers spend more time delivering high-level legal advice on large and complex projects.
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June 24, 2024
UAE Fund Can't Shake Asset Freeze As Mogul Chases £20M
A London court agreed on Monday to continue a worldwide asset freezing order against a UAE sovereign wealth fund to allow an aviation tycoon to attempt to recover more than £20 million ($25.4 million) after a fraud allegedly assisted by a Dechert LLP partner.
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June 24, 2024
Charity Urges Better Ways To Fight Investment Greenwashing
A legal environmental charity on Monday called for stronger measures to address the practice of misrepresenting financial products as environmentally friendly when they do not meet the necessary sustainability criteria.
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June 24, 2024
Ex-Clifford Chance Brussels Chief Barred From Running Firms
The former managing partner of Clifford Chance LLP's office in Brussels has been temporarily banned from accessing client money or from running a law firm, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.