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November 18, 2024
Davis Polk Hires Sidley Restructuring Heads In London
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired two restructuring experts as partners in its London office, where they will advise a wide range of clients on financially troubled companies.
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November 18, 2024
Bird & Bird Hires Ex-Clifford Chance Procurement Chief
Bird & Bird LLP has recruited the head of Clifford Chance's procurement and public law practice to boost its services to clients amid growing demand for specialist advice.
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November 11, 2024
Zurich Sued For £584K Over Law Firm's Settlement Terms
A bankrupt insurance company shut out from an earlier settlement agreement amid alleged mistakes by its lawyers has argued that Zurich should be liable as the firm's insurer for its losses of £583,600 ($751,700).
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November 11, 2024
Part-Time Paralegal Wins £41K Over Disability Discrimination
A former paralegal at a regional law firm has won more than £41,000 ($52,800) after a tribunal found it had made her redundant because she was unable to work full-time because of her chronic pain disability.
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November 11, 2024
RPC's Sam Tate On DPAs, Fraud And The Appeal Of Plumbing
Sam Tate — now head of white-collar crime at RPC — decided to be a lawyer at the age of 11. Here, he tells Law360 about growing enforcement burdens on companies, problems surrounding the U.K.'s compensation models for whistleblowers and overseas victims, and how Nick Ephgrave's first year as SFO director stacks up.
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November 10, 2024
SRA Closed 43 Firms For Mishandling Client Money In 2023
The closure of Axiom Ince Ltd. by the solicitors' watchdog was just the tip of the iceberg, as new data shows that the regulator was responsible for shuttering more than 10% of all law firms which folded in 2023.
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November 10, 2024
Esports Tees Up New Field Of Opportunities For Lawyers
The growing popularity of esports offers a significant opportunity for law firms looking to make the most of their dispute resolution teams, with the partnership between video game developer Riot Games and a German law firm to set up an arbitration court for the high-profile video game competitions underscoring the potential for the legal sector.
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November 08, 2024
Cohen & Gresser Taps French Firm For White Collar Pro
Cohen & Gresser LLP has recruited a white collar expert in France to augment its capabilities representing clients in international regulatory investigations and cases involving allegations of financial crimes.
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November 08, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen collapsed German airline Air Berlin take action against its former auditor KPMG, the associate editor at The Spectator hit with a libel claim by a mosque over the far-right riots that took place in August and British licensing authority the Performing Right Society sue Parklife Manchester and four other festival organizers. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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November 08, 2024
What's In A Global Footprint? Firms Slim Down In Profit Hunt
Faced with geopolitical events, hybrid working and disruption caused by artificial intelligence, BigLaw is rethinking its international footprint, signaling that legal business must continue to evolve if it is to stay profitable.
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November 15, 2024
A&O Shearman Hires Travers Smith's Incentives Chief
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling said on Friday that it has recruited the head of incentives and remuneration at Travers Smith LLP, the latest exit from the partnership ranks of the London law firm.
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November 08, 2024
Lawyers Deny Giving Bad Advice On £635K Crypto-Fraud
A boutique investment law firm has denied providing "valueless advice" to an alleged victim of a cryptocurrency fraud on how to recover her money, and said it helped to secure a freezing order against the fraudsters.
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November 07, 2024
Latham Elevates 24 Associates To Partner In Reduced Class
Latham & Watkins LLP will promote 24 associates to partner at the start of 2025, a number that is down significantly from the 34 associates who were promoted to partner in January 2024, the firm has announced.
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November 07, 2024
One Essex Court KC Tapped To Chair Takeover Panel
The U.K.'s Takeover Panel has appointed a senior barrister at One Essex Court to serve as its chair from May 1, according to a statement to the London Stock Exchange on Thursday.
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November 07, 2024
Solicitor's Bias Claim Against SRA Dismissed Again
A solicitor has lost his bid before the Employment Tribunal to prove that the Solicitors Regulation Authority's decision to place restrictions on his practicing certificate were linked to discrimination, with the tribunal saying the lawyer had presented no new evidence to prove his claim.
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November 07, 2024
Kingsley Napley Launches Regulatory Consultancy
Kingsley Napley LLP has launched a consultancy to help clients deal with regulatory issues as legal markets open up around the world.
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November 07, 2024
Riot Games Launches Dispute Resolution For Esports
Video game developer Riot Games said Thursday that it is launching an independent court of arbitration for esports in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to resolve contractual and financial issues in professional and semi-professional competitions.
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November 07, 2024
Ex-KWM London Chief Faces Tribunal For Kissing Colleague
A former managing partner at King & Wood Mallesons' office in London has been referred to a tribunal to face allegations that he engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said on Thursday.
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November 14, 2024
Mishcon Hires Video Games Pro From Lewis Silkin
Mishcon de Reya LLP has hired a partner at its London office to head up its new dedicated video games team, where he will advise a range of clients from game developers and publishers to esports teams and licensors.
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November 06, 2024
Hedge Fund Lawyer Defends Signing Off On £1.4B Fraud Docs
The former top lawyer at a hedge fund accused of defrauding Denmark's tax authority of £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion), who signed off on documents falsely confirming the trades were legitimate, told a London trial he didn't think it "was a big deal at the time."
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November 06, 2024
Fieldfisher Unfairly Fired Lawyer Amid Sex Assault Probe
A former senior associate at Fieldfisher LLP was unfairly fired over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a colleague in a toilet at a work event after the firm relied on the co-worker's "deliberate false evidence," an employment tribunal has ruled.
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November 06, 2024
SRA Could Reconsider New Fining Framework Amid Criticism
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has indicated that it might need to go back to the drawing board on plans to revise its fining powers after strong criticism that the plans could be unlawful and vulnerable to judicial review.
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November 06, 2024
Kennedys Recruits Arbitration Pro From Hogan Lovells
Kennedys has recruited a new partner from Hogan Lovells to its Paris office to help lead and develop its commercial and investment arbitration practice.
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November 06, 2024
SRA Fines Law Firm That Fell Short On AML Rules
A law firm has been fined more than £6,000 ($7,700) for a failure to comply with money-laundering regulations that meant it had undermined public confidence in the profession, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said on Wednesday.
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November 06, 2024
Lawyer Fails To Overturn Striking Off For Fake Whiplash Claim
A solicitor who made a false insurance claim over a road traffic accident failed in his bid to be restored to the profession, after a London judge found Wednesday that a lesser punishment would not be proportionate to the wrongdoing.