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February 18, 2025
Solicitor Caught In Daily Mail Sting Accused Of Dishonesty
A solicitor was accused of acting dishonestly and undermining the administration of justice on Tuesday as the profession's regulator alleged that he was caught by undercover journalists encouraging an illegal immigrant to lie to the Home Office and make a false application for asylum.
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February 18, 2025
Linklaters Hires Top CMA Lawyer For Competition Group
Linklaters LLP has recruited a senior lawyer at the Competition and Markets Authority to boost its competition and consumer law disputes offering amid regulatory changes across the globe and demand for advice on private litigation and class actions.
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February 18, 2025
SRA Urged To Keep Client Money In Hands Of Law Firms
The Law Society has criticized proposals to allow third parties rather than law firms to manage client money, and warned on Tuesday that the "radical" shift proposed by the solicitors' watchdog would not bring fraud to a halt.
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February 18, 2025
Environmental Campaigners Target A&O Shearman, Akin
Environmental campaigners targeted A&O Shearman and Akin Gump on Tuesday over their continuing involvement in fossil fuel projects and a $500 billion development in Saudi Arabia that has been linked to human rights violations.
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February 17, 2025
Magistrate Warned For Calling Peer A 'Trolley Dolly'
A magistrate has been issued a warning after he mocked another magistrate for her previous career as cabin crew by referring to her as a "trolley dolly," the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said.
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February 17, 2025
Ward Hadaway Ponders Merger With Regional Law Firm
Ward Hadaway said Monday that it is in talks over a potential merger with The Endeavour Partnership in northeast England as it seeks to build on its "very close" existing relationship with the commercial law firm.
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February 17, 2025
UK Appoints New And Old Faces To Trio Of Labor Bodies
The U.K. government confirmed the appointment and reappointment of dozens of members of three employment bodies on Monday.
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February 17, 2025
Lawyer Struck Off For Taking Money From Client Account
A disciplinary tribunal struck off a solicitor Monday after concluding that he had taken money from his firm's client account without authorization and misled the sector's regulator when it probed the transactions.
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February 17, 2025
Former Entain Execs Sue Addleshaw For Privileged Docs
The former chief executive at the predecessor of Entain and the betting giant's former chair have sued Addleshaw Goddard LLP, seeking the release of privileged advice believed to have been turned over to regulators and prosecutors in a major bribery investigation.
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February 17, 2025
Armstrong Teasdale UK Rapped Over Client Account Misuse
The defunct U.K. subsidiary of Armstrong Teasdale LLP has been sanctioned after the legal business breached rules by causing or allowing its client account to be used as a banking facility, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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February 17, 2025
RBG To Wind Down After Failing To Find Administrator
RBG Holdings PLC said on Monday that it is winding down operations after many of its lawyers moved to other firms in London and it failed to appoint an administrator.
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February 14, 2025
Brown Rudnick Bolsters Firm With Tax Pro From Fieldfisher
Brown Rudnick LLP announced it added a former Fieldfisher partner to work in the firm's London-based litigation and dispute resolution practice as a tax partner.
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February 14, 2025
The Revolving Door: Dentons, Akin Snag Big Hires
Over the past week, a seasoned white collar crime specialist moved from Paul Hastings to Dentons, Birketts boosted its construction offering with a double hire, and King & Spalding snagged two energy partners from Akin, while a finance pro moved in the other direction.
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February 14, 2025
A&O Shearman Loses IP Litigators In London, Paris
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling is set to lose three intellectual property litigators to White & Case LLP's London office, while another specialist from its Paris base has been snapped up by Clifford Chance LLP.
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February 14, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Spice Girls star Mel B's ex-husband bring a defamation claim against the publisher of The Sun, a hotel sue a former director convicted of embezzling its funds for breach of fiduciary duty, and comedian Russell Brand face a sexual abuse claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 14, 2025
ENRC Can't Directly Appeal $120M Cut From SFO Claim
A London judge Friday refused Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. a direct route to challenge his decision to pare its claim against the Serious Fraud Office over its criminal investigation, a move the company's lawyers say "went behind" its evidence and should have been aired at trial.
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February 14, 2025
5 Questions For Spencer West Partner Karl Foster
The Financial Conduct Authority's approach to enforcement and consumer protection has come up against government economic growth priorities and resistance from the sector to its proposals to "name and shame" companies early on during regulatory probes.
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February 21, 2025
Cadwalader Adds 3 Fund Finance Pros In London
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP said Friday that it has hired three fund finance lawyers from Ashurst LLP and Reed Smith LLP to boost its capabilities advising clients on increasingly complex transactions from its office in London.
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February 14, 2025
Former ICJ President Joins London's Twenty Essex
A prominent arbitrator who spent three years as president of the International Court of Justice has joined Twenty Essex in London, the barristers' chambers said on Friday.
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February 13, 2025
Patent Court Rules Out DIY Defense For Attys Party To A Case
Lawyers cannot represent themselves at the Unified Patent Court if they are a party to a case, an appeals panel at the court has ruled.
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February 13, 2025
Norton Rose Fulbright Hikes NQ Pay To £135K
Norton Rose Fulbright said Thursday that it is increasing starting salaries of newly qualified solicitors in London to £135,000 ($169,100) following an annual benchmarking review as junior lawyers' earnings continue to hit new levels across the market.
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February 13, 2025
Gunnercooke Taps Ex-Millwall FC Chief To Lead Sports Division
Gunnercooke LLP said Thursday that it has recruited the former chief executive of Millwall Football Club to lead a new division representing clients in the sports industry.
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February 13, 2025
Mishcon Hires Sports Pro To Its Disputes Resolution Team
Mishcon de Reya LLP has recruited a new disputes partner from Kennedys who has a track record of representing sports clients — including IndyCar driver Álex Palou in his ongoing battle with McLaren.
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February 20, 2025
Clifford Chance Adds 2 PE Pros From KKR, Blackstone
Clifford Chance LLP has added two more partners in London to continue the expansion of its global private capital team as it looks to meet the growing demands of clients for expert advice in the space.
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February 13, 2025
Former SFO HR Boss Loses Claim He Was Forced Out
A former head of human resources at the Serious Fraud Office has lost his case that he was forced to quit the white-collar crime agency because executives "deliberately and increasingly undermined" him and hired someone else to take over his duties.