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February 03, 2025
Freshfields' Revenue Hits Record-Breaking £2.1B
Revenue at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP hit a record-breaking £2.12 billion ($2.6 billion) in the financial year ending in April — but profits before partner distributions fell by 8.3%.
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February 03, 2025
Lawfront To Pass £100M After Buying Fifth UK Regional Hub
Lawfront said Monday that it has acquired a law firm in southeast England in a deal that would take the legal services group's annual revenue past the £100 million ($124 million) mark.
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January 31, 2025
Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe
Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.
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January 31, 2025
Akin Hires Tax Pro From Cooley In London
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP announced Friday that a partner at Cooley LLP will join as a tax partner in Akin's London office later in 2025.
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January 31, 2025
The Revolving Door: Memery Crystal Loses Real Estate Team
Over the past week, Squire Patton Boggs recruited two specialists in financial services from Stephenson Harwood, Hogan Lovells hired a HSBC lawyer to head its financial crime consulting unit, and Lawrence Stephens snapped up a real estate team from Memery Crystal amid a mass partner walkout.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-IP Co. Director Says Lawyer, Founders Hid $40M Takeover
A former director of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company has claimed in court filings that two fellow directors, aided by an ex-Russells Solicitors partner, concealed plans for a $40 million takeover to try to convince him to sell his shares on the cheap.
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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.