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January 28, 2025
SRA Admits New Solicitor Test May Be 'Too Hard'
The solicitors' watchdog acknowledged Tuesday that the qualifying examination for the profession might be "too hard" as it continues to assess the reasons for low pass rates, particularly among Asian and Black candidates.
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February 04, 2025
Bird & Bird Hires New Irish Employment Head From Walkers
Bird & Bird LLP said Tuesday that it has recruited a senior employment specialist from Walkers in Ireland as it continues to build its legal services in the country more than two years after it opened its first Irish office in Dublin.
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January 28, 2025
Insolvent Law Firm Must Pay Secretary After COVID Closure
A defunct law firm must pay £14,397 ($17,901) to a secretary for making her redundant after 29 years and failing to provide her with statutory payments, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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January 28, 2025
SRA Hints At Stalling CILEX Plans
The Solicitors Regulation Authority hinted Tuesday that plans for it to take over the regulation of members of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives have stalled, further protracting the three-year-old saga.
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January 28, 2025
Former RFB Dept. Head Says 'Sabotage' Forced Him To Quit
The former head of employment at Ronald Fletcher Baker accused the law firm's ex-managing partner of "sabotage" on Tuesday in his claim that her alleged bullying behavior forced him to resign.
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January 28, 2025
RBG Suspends Trading After Talks Over Future Collapse
RBG Holdings said Tuesday that it has suspended public trading in its stock after discussions to sell the legal services business while it is still able to pay off its debts collapsed.
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January 27, 2025
HSF Hires 10-Lawyer Corporate Team From Orrick In Germany
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP said Monday it has hired a 10-lawyer corporate team from Orrick in Germany as the U.S. law firm suffers another mass defection in Europe.
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January 27, 2025
Eversheds Sutherland Taps EY Leader To Head ALSP In US
Eversheds Sutherland has named a new leader for its alternative legal services provider in the U.S., bringing in a former legal technology leader from the financial services sector of consulting firm EY.
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January 27, 2025
Perkins Coie Hires Chief People Officer From Kobre & Kim
Perkins Coie LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a global people officer from Kobre & Kim LLP who will oversee Perkins Coie's human resources operations, including benefits, recruiting, retention and employee relations.
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January 27, 2025
Law Firms Among Top Offenders For Underpaid Internships
Nearly half of employers in the legal sector are paying interns less than the national minimum wage — or nothing at all — widening the gap between middle- and working-class graduates who want access to internships, a new study has found.
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February 03, 2025
Morgan Lewis Adds Competition, Finance Pros In London
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP said Monday it has hired specialists in competition and structured finance from Baker McKenzie and Akin Gump, respectively, as it looks to continue to expand across Europe.
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February 03, 2025
Simmons Hires Restructuring Pro From Dechert
Simmons & Simmons LLP has hired a restructuring expert to join its wider private equity and leveraged finance practice in London as the firm reacts to an uptick in global demand for its services in the evolving lending sector
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January 24, 2025
Reed Smith Brings Back Tax Pro From Amazon In Brussels
An attorney who specializes in customs, trade and excise tax matters in the European Union and U.K. has rejoined Reed Smith LLP in Brussels after a stint at Amazon, the firm announced.
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January 24, 2025
The Revolving Door: Another SRA Exec Joins Kingsley Napley
Over the past week, the Solicitors Regulation Authority lost another executive to Kingsley Napley LLP, another Travers Smith LLP partner left the firm, and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP hired a private funds partner from Proskauer Rose LLP.
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January 24, 2025
FCA Settles Claims Law Firm Helped Illegal Investment Plans
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday it has settled with a regional law firm over allegations that it helped a client promote a misleading care home investment scheme causing £50 million ($62 million) in losses.
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January 24, 2025
DLA Piper Refreshes International Board With New Appointees
DLA Piper has refreshed its international board with the reelection of a Milan-based leader for a second term and the addition of leaders from Singapore, Dublin and Paris, the firm announced Friday.
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January 24, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Axa Insurance and Admiral face a claim from a former lawyer recently exposed for personal injury fraud, the owner of Reading Football Club sue a prospective buyer and mobile network Lycamobile tackle action by Spanish network Yogio. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 31, 2025
Derains & Gharavi Arbitration Pros Set Up Paris Boutique
Two international arbitrators from Derains & Gharavi have left the firm to set up their own boutique practice that leverages their combined decades of experience in investor-state and commercial arbitration.
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January 24, 2025
Baker McKenzie Pro Gets Breathalyzer Refusal Case Tossed
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has thrown out allegations that a Baker McKenzie solicitor failed to act with integrity when he refused to provide a breathalyzer sample after being pulled over by the police, though it did endorse other parts of the solicitors' watchdog's case.
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January 24, 2025
New Tribunal Venue To Open In 2026 After Cost Overruns
A new London tribunal building is due to open in January 2026, after its completion was delayed by "unexpected issues" at the new site near St Paul's Cathedral and a "significant rise" in costs, stakeholders were told on Friday.
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January 24, 2025
A&O Partner Only Solicitor To Make KC Cut In Widened List
More than 100 lawyers have been awarded King's Counsel status in England and Wales, the Ministry of Justice said on Friday — although an A&O Shearman partner was the only solicitor to make the cut in a group with limited diversity.
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January 24, 2025
Burges Salmon Names Clean Energy Pro Next Senior Partner
Burges Salmon LLP said on Friday that it has appointed clean energy lawyer Ross Fairley as its next senior partner as to continue the momentum sparked by record-breaking financial results.
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January 24, 2025
Ex-Freshfields Worker Barred Over Child Sexual Offenses
A former IT worker at Freshfields has been barred from the profession after he was convicted by a criminal court of committing more than a dozen sexual offenses against children, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday.
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January 24, 2025
Gov't Consults On £20M-A-Year Legal Aid Funding Boost
The government began consulting on Friday on proposals to increase legal aid funding in housing and immigration by £20 million ($25 million) in what would be the first major cash boost for civil legal aid since 1996.
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January 24, 2025
RBG, Rosenblatt Push Back Deadline For Deal By A Week
RBG Holdings PLC said Friday that it has extended the exclusivity period to allow founder and majority shareholder Ian Rosenblatt to buy back part of the business by one week as they continue to explore a deal.