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January 31, 2025
Data Reveals More To Do On Diversity Among Barristers
Diversity levels among barristers require further progress to improve representation of women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds at silk level, the Bar Standards Board reported Friday.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-BigLaw Atty Can't Escape OneCoin Conviction At 2nd Circ.
The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a former Locke Lord LLP partner's conviction and 10-year sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the multibillion-dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme, rejecting the attorney's contention that a sole cooperating government witness' perjury and other purported errors warranted reversing his punishment.
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January 31, 2025
Seasoned Patterson Belknap Trial Team Joins Linklaters In NY
Linklaters LLP announced Friday it has brought aboard a high-profile team of litigation partners from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, including one who is the current president of the New York City Bar Association and a lawyer former President Joe Biden had nominated to the Third Circuit.
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January 31, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen another claim by Woodford investors against Hargreaves Lansdown in the widening £200 million ($248 million) dispute over the fund's collapse, a solicitor barred for his role in a suspected advance fee fraud face action by a Swiss wholesaler, and The Resort Group, which markets investments in luxury hotel resorts, hit with a claim by a group of investors. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 31, 2025
McDermott Taps Arbitration Pro From Curtis
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has hired a dual-qualified international arbitration lawyer and Italian avvocato from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to join its litigation and arbitration team, as the firm looks to strengthen its disputes offering for Italian clients.
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January 31, 2025
Activists Fear Trump's Paris Exit Will Boost BigLaw Deals
BigLaw could play a "pivotal" role in averting a climate catastrophe, but they are not heeding calls to withdraw from fossil fuel work as eco-campaigners fear deals will increase with Donald Trump quitting the Paris Agreement again.
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February 07, 2025
BCLP Adds Finance Regulatory Team From Parisian Firm
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired a financial regulation and asset management team in Paris, as the U.S.-based firm takes a "significant next step" in its strategy of growing and diversifying its practice in France and Europe.
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January 31, 2025
RBG Enters Administration As Rosenblatt Rescues His Firm
RBG Holdings PLC said on Friday that it is entering into administration, as its founder and single largest shareholder, Ian Rosenblatt, said that he had successfully rescued the Rosenblatt-branded side of the business.
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January 30, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Opens Second German Office In Munich
Greenberg Traurig LLP expanded its footprint in Germany on Thursday, announcing the opening of a new office in Munich along with the hiring of eight attorneys for the location from McDermott Will & Emery LLP and Ehlers Ehlers & Partner.
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January 30, 2025
Post-Maternity Return Hindered By In-Office Mandates
As larger firms push lawyers to come to the office more often, experts warned Thursday that the move could jeopardize progress toward increasing the number of women in equity partnerships by making it harder for them to return full time after maternity leave.
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January 30, 2025
Civil Justice Council Extends Litigation Funding Consultation
A government advisory body has pushed back the deadline for a consultation on the current state of litigation funding and whether the time has come for regulation.
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January 30, 2025
DWF Promotes 13 New Partners, Boosts Senior Ranks
DWF LLP said Thursday that 13 lawyers have become new partners in its business as part of a larger group that has been promoted to bolster its senior ranks.
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February 06, 2025
Hogan Lovells Adds 5 Pros From White & Case In Italy
Hogan Lovells has recruited a team of five corporate and finance lawyers from White & Case LLP in Italy, its latest group hire, as it looks to keep building in the country.
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January 30, 2025
Law Reform Charity Maps Out Proposals To Safely Harness AI
Upholding the rule of law and human rights should underpin innovations around artificial intelligence technology to guard against ill-designed changes that could weaken the U.K. justice system, a law reform charity said in a report published Thursday.
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January 30, 2025
Kennedys Floats Pro Bono Program For Green AI Startups
Kennedys said Thursday it has partnered with an environmental consultancy to support startups that are using artificial intelligence to promote sustainability.
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January 29, 2025
Lawyers, Ex-Tax Inspector Took £278M From Trust, Court Rules
A London appeals court has upheld a High Court ruling that two solicitors and a former senior tax manager devised a scheme to cut out beneficiaries from Jersey trusts in what they saw as a "huge commercial opportunity" to divert an estimated £278 million ($345 million) to themselves.
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January 29, 2025
Hogan Lovells Hires Financial Crime Pro From HSBC
Hogan Lovells has tapped an HSBC lawyer as the new director of its Financial Crime consulting unit, bringing decades of legal and compliance experience in the banking world.
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January 29, 2025
Solicitor Rebuked For Failing To Provide Competent Service
Former solicitor Louise Piper has been rebuked after she failed to provide a competent service on two cases she handled, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Wednesday.
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January 29, 2025
Law Firm Faces £68M Ponzi Scheme Negligence Claim Again
The administrators of a group of investment companies won a second shot on Wednesday at bringing a £68 million ($85 million) negligence claim against Lupton Fawcett over a Ponzi scheme as an appeals court granting the administrators permission to revive their case.
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January 29, 2025
Northern Irish Criminal Barristers Extend Strike Over Legal Aid
Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have voted to continue a boycott of crown court cases, the country's Criminal Bar Association has said, as the crisis over pay for legally aided work continues to simmer.
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January 29, 2025
Former RFB Boss Argues 'No Vendetta' Against Ex-Partner
The ex-managing partner of Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP told a tribunal Wednesday that she had no vendetta against its former head of employment law, revealing that she stepped aside from the top job over "irreconcilable differences" with other partners.
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January 29, 2025
SRA Fights To Revive AML Misconduct Case Against Dentons
The solicitors' regulatory body sought on Wednesday to revive its misconduct case for alleged money laundering breaches against Dentons, arguing at a court in London that a tribunal had misunderstood the legal principles at stake.
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January 28, 2025
Solicitor Suspended After Sex Offender Counseling Conflict
A criminal solicitor who runs a support group for sex offenders was suspended for six months on Tuesday after a tribunal concluded that he had blurred the professional boundaries between his legal and support work.
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January 28, 2025
Mishcon Hires Hausfeld Litigation Pro With Pro Bono Edge
Mishcon de Reya LLP has expanded its competition litigation team with the addition of a new partner who brings a wealth of experience representing high-profile clients following 12 years at Hausfeld LLP.
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January 28, 2025
SRA Aims To Launch First Post Office Prosecutions In Summer
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is aiming to bring the first prosecutions in connection with the Post Office Horizon scandal in the summer, according to the watchdog's chair.