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November 12, 2024
Irwin Mitchell To Open New Office In Nottingham
Irwin Mitchell LLP announced Tuesday that it is launching a new base in Nottingham as part of its plans to continue investing in growing its business.
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November 12, 2024
HSF Merger Ups Pressure On UK Firms To Find US Suitors
The merger unveiled Monday between Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP of New York is increasing pressure on U.K. firms to expand across the Pond, while also underscoring the persistent challenges of finding the ideal strategic partner for such tie-ups.
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November 12, 2024
Squire Patton Boggs Hires Tax Expert In Irish Expansion
Squire Patton Boggs hired a senior associate from Eversheds Sutherland as part of building a tax strategy practice in Ireland, the firm said.
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November 12, 2024
BigLaw Bonus Season Starts With A Move By Milbank
Milbank LLP announced Monday that it will hand its associates year-end bonuses ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 depending on seniority, numbers that nearly align with bonuses the firm and its peers handed out last year.
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November 12, 2024
DLA Piper Bolsters Restructuring Practice With Dechert Pro
DLA Piper has hired an experienced restructuring expert from Dechert LLP to its practice in London, as the firm braces for continued global financial distress driven by geopolitical turmoil and macroeconomic headwinds.
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November 12, 2024
Travers Smith's Head Of Private Equity Lucie Cawood Retires
Lucie Cawood, the former head of the private equity practice at Travers Smith LLP, has retired from its partnership — the latest high-profile loss for the firm.
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November 11, 2024
Cleary Promotes 26 Partners, 4 To Counsel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday that it has elevated 26 lawyers to partner and four to counsel in its latest bumper round of promotions.
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November 11, 2024
Lawyer Can't Sue Child Abuse Inquiry Members For Bias
A lawyer for an inquiry into Scottish child abuse has lost his bid to bring discrimination claims against the chair and chief executive of the investigation, as an employment tribunal ruled that he did not benefit from employment protections.
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November 11, 2024
BCLP Promotes 24 Lawyers To Partnership
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP named 24 new partners on Monday in one of its largest ever promotions rounds, although the total number of partners at the law firm is falling.
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November 18, 2024
Greenberg Traurig Adds McDermott Pro For Munich Launch
Greenberg Traurig LLP has recruited a senior corporate lawyer from McDermott Will & Emery LLP to lead a new office it is opening in Munich to establish a new hub for private equity work in the healthcare industry.
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November 11, 2024
Barings Lawyers Cleared Of Misleading Clients In SRA Case
A tribunal has dismissed a case against two senior lawyers at the consumer finance firm Barings Ltd. who were accused of misleading clients over payday loans claims and sending out letters on behalf of fictional clients, including Mickey Mouse.
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November 11, 2024
Herbert Smith Freehills To Merge With US-Based Kramer Levin
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP said Monday that it is joining forces with U.S. law firm Kramer Levin to form a global legal powerhouse in a move that could signal further consolidation in the sector.
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November 11, 2024
Disabled Court Clerk Wins £13K Over Hybrid Work Refusal
An employment tribunal has ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay a court clerk more than £13,500 ($17,400) for refusing her request to work from home even though she was suffering from long COVID.
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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.