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July 08, 2024
PierFerd Opens London Office With More FisherBroyles Attys
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has expanded globally with a new London office with eight partners and six staff members.
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July 08, 2024
SRA Fines London Firm Over Anti-Money Laundering Failings
The English solicitors' regulator has hit a London law firm with a fine after investigators discovered a series of failures to comply with anti-money laundering regulations.
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July 08, 2024
Hermer Poised To Return Independence To AG Role
The appointment of Richard Hermer KC as attorney general in the new Labour government will restore independence to a position that had become increasingly politicized over recent years, top British lawyers say.
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July 08, 2024
Knights Posts Record £150M Revenue Despite Deal Slowdown
Knights Group Holdings PLC said Monday that it has posted record revenues of £150 million ($193 million), despite a slowdown in residential property deals and corporate transactions amid macroeconomic uncertainty.
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July 05, 2024
Class Of 2024: The Lawyers Trading Practicing For Legislating
More than 20 lawyers were elected to Parliament for the first time on Thursday, with most coming from the triumphant Labour Party, which won 412 seats out of 650.
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July 05, 2024
Legal Teams' Costs Slashed By £253M In UK Dieselgate Case
Legal teams involved in unprecedented U.K "Dieselgate" vehicle emissions tests litigation had more than £250 million ($320 million) of their budgets slashed on Friday after a High Court judge ruled that the estimated costs were "out of all proportion".
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July 05, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen collapsed sports television company Arena Television hit Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank with a claim, James Vorley, the Deutsche Bank metals trader convicted of fraud, sue his former employer, and journalist John Ware file a defamation claim against Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters and Al Jazeera Media Network. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 05, 2024
Barrister Struck Off After Buying Drugs From Clients
A tribunal has disbarred a barrister who spent 14 months in prison after he was convicted of buying crystal meth from his drug dealer clients.
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July 05, 2024
Matrix KC Richard Hermer Tapped For Attorney General
Matrix Chambers' human rights barrister Richard Hermer KC will serve as the U.K.'s attorney general in a surprise appointment from newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer late Friday.
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July 05, 2024
Signature Litigation Partner Elected To ICC
An international arbitration partner at Signature Litigation has been elected to the International Chamber of Commerce to represent Ethiopia for the next three years.
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July 05, 2024
Armstrong Teasdale To Leave UK, Close 2 US Offices
Armstrong Teasdale LLP's managing partner said the firm "will likely no longer have a direct physical presence in the U.K. or Europe" as it ceases future financial support for its U.K. subsidiary, while aiming to wrap up business in Boston and Salt Lake City by the end of September.
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July 05, 2024
Shabana Mahmood Named Labour's New Justice Secretary
Prime Minister Keir Starmer named former barrister Shabana Mahmood as the Labour government's new justice secretary on Friday following a sweeping victory in the U.K. general election.
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July 05, 2024
Ex-Bird & Bird Partner Can't Ax Sexual Misconduct Case
A former Bird & Bird LLP partner lost his fight at a tribunal on Friday to strike out a sexual misconduct case over allegations he harassed two junior female colleagues.
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July 04, 2024
Labour Gov't Spells Big Changes For Legal Industry
The Labour Party's election victory on Thursday after 14 years in opposition is expected to bring significant changes to the legal industry, with plans for major employment law reforms poised to create headaches for law firms even as changes in tax and labor policy could spur more work in the short term.
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July 04, 2024
Labour Sweeps Tories From Power In UK Election Rout
Keir Starmer was poised to become Britain's next prime minister on Friday after his Labour Party ousted Rishi Sunak's Conservatives in a landslide general election victory, ending 14 years of Tory government with a pledge of "national renewal."
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July 04, 2024
Freeths Says Funder's Loan Negligence Claim Is Time-Barred
Freeths LLP has hit back at a professional negligence case brought by a litigation-funder, arguing that it waited too long to claim that the law firm left the owner of a quarrying business liable to repay a £250,000 ($320,000) loan.
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July 04, 2024
Lawyer Heckled Secretary With Sexist Remarks, Tribunal Says
A former legal secretary has won her sexual harassment claim against her former firm in an English tribunal after the panel ruled that its leading solicitor had made her distressed, including by telling her he had found a condom used by his partner's paramour.
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July 04, 2024
Eversheds Weighs Shuttering Beijing Office Amid KWM Deal
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP said on Thursday that it is weighing up the potential closure of its Beijing office, but stressed that it has yet to make a final decision.
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July 04, 2024
Lender Hits Elite Law For £1.9M Over Alleged Loan Breach
A lender has sued Elite Law Solicitors after it allegedly failed to spot that its client was a fraud and did not secure necessary protections over a £1.9 million ($2.4 million) property loan, telling a court that this has left it unable to recover its cash.
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July 04, 2024
Brabners Revenue Soars 18% To Almost £56M
Brabners became the latest English law firm to reveal a leap in revenue in its latest results on Thursday, with income soaring to £55.6 million ($70.9 million), reflecting the optimistic start to the financial results season for legal firms in the U.K.
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July 04, 2024
HCR Law's Insurance Unit Triples In Size Since 2022 Launch
The insurance and risk division of HCR Legal LLP said Thursday that the specialist practice has tripled in size since it was set up in 2022, growing from four to 12 members.
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July 03, 2024
Ex-Post Office Chair Says Legal Review Buried On Advice
The former chair of the U.K.'s Post Office told a London inquiry Wednesday that he had not shared a legal review of prosecutions of subpostmasters due to advice that it would be legally privileged, despite warnings in the report that some of the convictions may have been unsafe.
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July 03, 2024
SRA Move On CILEX Sparks War Of Words Among Watchdogs
The decision by the solicitors' watchdog to oversee members of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has ignited an existential crisis among other legal sector regulators, who are fervently resisting the move.
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July 03, 2024
HFW On Hunt For Partners After 17% Spike In Profits
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP on Wednesday set its sights on "aggressively" hiring partners after revealing that its profits rose 16.5% over the past year to a record £75.4 million ($96.3 million).
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July 03, 2024
Top UK Court To Define 'Payment' For Lawyer Fee Disputes
The U.K.'s highest court is set to rule on the meaning of "payment" for determining when the clock starts ticking for clients to challenge solicitors' fees as part of a personal injury claim row with an English firm heard by justices on Wednesday.