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October 16, 2024
7BR Barrister Joins Legal Ombudsman Board
An employment barrister at 7 Bedford Row has become a member of the board of the Legal Ombudsman amid efforts by the complaint service to improve performance and cut backlogs that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 15, 2024
Skadden Picks Up Arbitration Co-Head From Sidley In Asia
The co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's global arbitration, trade and advocacy group has been tapped to lead Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's international litigation and arbitration group in Asia, the firm announced on Monday.
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October 15, 2024
Lawtech Innovators Urged To Disrupt The Market
A leading international lawtech expert urged investors and entrepreneurs Tuesday to use artificial intelligence to revolutionize the legal industry by creating entirely new methods of working, rather than just focusing on enhancing productivity and efficiency.
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October 15, 2024
Shoosmiths, Software Co. Launch AI Compliance Tool
U.K. law firm Shoosmiths LLP and governance software developer Enzai have launched a platform called AI Comply to help companies navigate the changing regulatory landscape around artificial intelligence.
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October 15, 2024
Disabled Court Worker Wins £48K Over Early Start Time
An employment tribunal has ruled that a charity discriminated against a court worker by refusing to acknowledge that her anxiety made her disabled and failing to push back her working hours by 30 minutes.
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October 22, 2024
Hughes Hubbard Adds Securities Pro From Clifford Chance
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has hired an experienced U.S. securities and capital markets expert as a partner in Paris, as the firm looks to grow its financing and cross-border M&A practices in Europe.
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October 15, 2024
Simmons & Simmons Encourages Working At Clients' Offices
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Tuesday that it has launched an initiative to encourage partners and managing associates to spend time working as legal advisers at the offices of their clients in a move to deepen relationships.
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October 22, 2024
Ex-A&O Lawyer Brings Int'l Expertise To Twenty Essex
A former solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP has joined Twenty Essex Ltd. alongside her existing position at an Australian barristers set to bolster the London chambers' team of experts in international disputes.
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October 15, 2024
KPMG Adopts ContractPodAi's Legal Assistant Leah
Contract management software provider ContractPodAi, which launched an automated legal assistant earlier this year, announced Tuesday a new partnership with London's KPMG that will provide artificial intelligence to the Big Four accounting firm and its managed legal services.
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October 15, 2024
Burges Salmon Ups Junior Pay In Bristol And Edinburgh
Burges Salmon LLP has boosted the salaries of its trainees and newly qualified solicitors in Bristol and Edinburgh as it seeks to continue its investment in junior staff.
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October 21, 2024
Jones Day Adds Patent Litigation Pro From CMS In London
Jones Day has appointed a new intellectual property partner to its London office, with the new arrival saying that the global footprint of the U.S. outfit led him to take the position.
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October 21, 2024
Covington Hires ICO's General Counsel For London Office
Covington & Burling LLP has recruited the head of the legal service at the Information Commissioner's Office to join its competition team in London amid growing challenges for clients that operate in digital markets.
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October 14, 2024
Judge Sanctioned For Unconscious Antisemitic Bias
A judge has been issued with formal advice for misconduct after the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said it found that she displayed "an unconscious bias of an antisemitic nature."
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October 14, 2024
Law Firm Hit With ICO Reprimand For Client Data Leak
An English law firm has been reprimanded for not implementing adequate cybersecurity measures after a hacker gained access to sensitive client information and released it on the dark web, the data regulator has said.
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October 14, 2024
Fenchurch Law Hires Ex-Kennedys Chief For Denmark Launch
Fenchurch Law said Monday that it has hired a former co-managing partner at Kennedys and another senior lawyer to open its Denmark office — its second outside the U.K. — as it seeks to expand its international presence.
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October 21, 2024
Mayer Brown Taps Life Insurance Expert From Skadden
Mayer Brown LLP has hired an insurance expert as a partner at its London practice as the U.S.-based firm looks to boost its U.K. presence in the complex life insurance sector.
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October 14, 2024
Quinn Emanuel Must ID Source Of Forged Deripaska Report
Quinn Emanuel must reveal the source of the middleman that provided it with a forged report suggesting that Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska misled arbitrators during a dispute with a former business partner, a judge ruled on Monday.
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October 11, 2024
Robertson Pugh Boosts Sanctions Offering With MoFo Hire
Boutique law firm Robertson Pugh Associates LLP has hired a sanctions expert as a consultant, a move that comes at a time of intense demand to manage the risks of global conflicts, the former Morrison Foerster LLP partner told Law360.
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October 11, 2024
2 Finance Partners Added To Hunton's London Office
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has welcomed two new lawyers, Alan Cunningham and Richard Skipper, as finance partners in its London office.
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October 11, 2024
Bird & Bird Adds DLA Piper Legal Director To London Office
Bird & Bird LLP has added a former DLA Piper legal director as a partner to its London tax team.
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October 11, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen billionaire Lakshmi Mittal sue steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta in a long-running clash to claw back €140 million ($153 million) of debt, a high-profile AI researcher take action against the Intellectual Property Office to register his software as a listed patent inventor and troubled housing trust Home Reit face a claim by a real estate developer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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October 11, 2024
Take Urgent Action Over Crown Court Delays, UK Gov't Told
The U.K. government must act urgently to fix Crown Court backlogs and delays that are worsening trauma for victims of crime, the victims' commissioner has stressed in a new report.
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October 18, 2024
O'Melveny Hires Expert PE Duo From Ashurst
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has added two private equity experts from Ashurst LLP to its London office as partners in the firm's private equity group, strengthening its cross-border capabilities.
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October 11, 2024
Day 1 Unfair Dismissal Right Risks Diversity And Justice Aims
Abolishing the two-year qualifying period to bring an unfair dismissal claim will trigger an impossible deluge of tribunal cases and a more cautious approach to recruitment that risks turning back the clock on diversity in the workforce, lawyers warned about the headline proposal in the Employment Rights Bill.
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October 11, 2024
Paul Weiss Adds Kirkland Partner To Head Regulatory Group
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Friday it has hired a financial regulatory partner to head its European financial services regulation group, as it continues to expand in London with another recruit from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.