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May 28, 2024
Greenberg Traurig Adds Tax Pro From MoFo In London
Greenberg Traurig LLP added to its deep bench of legal talent by recruiting a tax partner from Morrison & Foerster to join the firm's London office and co-chair its tax practice, the firm said.
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May 28, 2024
Property Firm Fined £12K For Anti-Money Laundering Failures
The Solicitors Regulation Authority fined a London property solicitors £12,777 ($16,300) after the firm carried out transactions for partners and their family members without appropriate anti-money laundering policies.
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May 28, 2024
15 Firms Win Spots On Housing Provider's £30M Legal Panel
One of the U.K.'s largest housing and care providers has appointed 16 firms, including Gowling WLG, Mills & Reeve LLP and Bevan Brittan LLP, to its legal panel, backed by £30 million ($38.3 million) in funding.
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May 28, 2024
Financial Penalties To Retain Lawyers Could Be Risky Move
As U.S. firms increasingly recruit partners from rival U.K. firms, outfits in Britain are responding by introducing financial penalties to curb the exodus and losses to business — a strategy that experts warn could come back to bite them in the long run.
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May 24, 2024
The UK Laws That Will Pass Or Fail As Election Looms
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to call an early general election to be held on July 4 has left several pieces of legislation hanging in the balance during the so-called "wash-up" period before Parliament is formally dissolved, while others have been pushed through.
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May 24, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen an IT engineer seek permission to search a landfill hiding a hard drive supposedly storing millions of pounds in bitcoin, Glencore take on legal action by American Century Investments, gold payment app Glint bring a breach of duty claim against FRP Advisory, and an ongoing dispute between a solicitor and the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 24, 2024
White & Case Hires Funds Specialist For Lux Office
White & Case LLP has hired a private funds formation expert to join the firm as a partner in the firm's new Luxembourg office, where he will join its global mergers and acquisitions team to advise clients on assets such as private equity and real estate.
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May 24, 2024
A&O Shearman Picks 19 Participants For Tech Hub Cohort
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, or A&O Shearman, has selected a group of 19 companies specializing in digital assets to join a seven-month program at its innovative tech incubator, Fuse, after going through 230 applications.
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May 24, 2024
Law Firm Partner Says Sorry For Expert Witness Interference
A Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP partner has apologized to a London court for overstepping in his interference with an expert witness' statement amid his client's feud with AXA XL.
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May 24, 2024
Ex-Post Office Boss Blames Scandal On Bad Legal Advice
Paula Vennells blamed the advice of her senior lawyers for not becoming aware of the wrongful prosecutions by the Post Office of innocent people based on faulty IT data, as she gave evidence to the inquiry into the scandal Friday.
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May 24, 2024
MoJ Told It Does Not Understand Its Own Legal Aid Reforms
The Ministry of Justice and the Legal Aid Agency still lack a firm grasp on the costs and benefits of the U.K.'s legal aid reforms 11 years after their introduction, a parliamentary committee said Friday.
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May 24, 2024
Plans To Cut Crown Court Backlog 'Can't Be Achieved'
Proposals to cut the Crown Court backlog to 53,000 cases by March 2025 are no longer attainable as the number has ballooned to the highest level ever recorded, a damning report by the public sector spending watchdog revealed on Friday.
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May 23, 2024
White & Case Adds Former A&O Tax Pro In Luxembourg
White & Case LLP announced it has added a tax partner to its Luxembourg office from A&O Shearman who specializes in international and Luxembourg corporate tax law.
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May 23, 2024
AI Isn't Too Dangerous For Lawyers, Master Of The Rolls Says
Lawyers and judges should not be afraid to deploy artificial intelligence, one of the U.K.'s most senior judges has said, calling on legal professionals to embrace the tech and prepare for it to transform their roles in the future.
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May 23, 2024
Ex-Post Office Boss Told Reviewing Cases Would Be Bad PR
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells denied that avoiding becoming "front page news" influenced her decision to limit a review of past convictions based on faulty IT data in her evidence to the inquiry into the Post Office scandal on Thursday.
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May 23, 2024
Legal Services Board Appoints Comms Pro As New Leader
The Legal Services Board said Thursday that it had appointed a communications expert as its new leader to help it guide the legal sector through the "significant challenges" it is facing.
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May 23, 2024
Struck-Off Lawyer Loses Bid To Challenge Contempt Sentence
A struck-off solicitor lost her attempt on Thursday to get a second shot at reviving her appeal against a prison sentence for contempt of court as the appeals court found that she had failed to argue that she had been medically unfit to argue at her first appeal.
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May 30, 2024
White & Case Hires 2 Latham Partners In Germany
White & Case LLP has added two partners from Latham & Watkins LLP with more than three decades worth of experience between them in capital markets to its Frankfurt office.
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May 22, 2024
'Niche' Litigation Funding No Panacea For Access To Justice
Litigation funding remains too "niche" a market to solve the big problem of access to justice in the U.K., according to a study the Legal Services Board published Thursday.
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May 22, 2024
Mishcon's Int'l Arbitration Head Leaves For Littleton Chambers
Littleton Chambers said Tuesday that Mishcon de Reya LLP's head of international arbitration is set to join as silk, as the law firm names his successor to lead the firm's practice.
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May 22, 2024
DLA Piper Beefs Up White Collar Bench With Former SFO Atty
After leaving her government post in March, one of the most senior officials at the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office, Judy Krieg, has found a home at DLA Piper LLP as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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May 22, 2024
Solicitor Fails To Nix Fake-Employee Fraud Conviction
A solicitor on Wednesday lost her bid to overturn her conviction for pocketing the salary of a fake employee, with a London appellate court ruling her conviction was not unsafe after the solicitor's counsel had argued the trial judge failed warn the jury a witness' evidence should be handled cautiously.
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May 22, 2024
Employment Law Biz Reprimanded Over 'Misleading' Ad
A British company offering human resources and employment law advice has been reprimanded by the U.K. advertising regulator for sending a misleading marketing letter, with the correspondence appearing to be from a public body.
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May 22, 2024
UK Gov't Calls Elections For July 4 Despite Poor Polls
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday called an early general election to be held on July 4, advancing the electoral timetable even though his Conservative Party lags decisively behind the opposition Labour Party.
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May 22, 2024
Ex-Post Office Boss Didn't Know Business Prosecuted People
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells denied on Wednesday that she knew the organization conducted its own prosecutions, telling the inquiry into its wrongful prosecution of innocent sub-postmasters she became aware of the power to prosecute only several years after she joined.