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March 11, 2025
Are Lawyers In The UK Happy With Their Jobs?
Lawyers in the U.K. are mostly content with their jobs — but stress and financial worries risk undermining their work-life balance, a new survey from Law360 UK Pulse has revealed.
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March 11, 2025
Bar Standards Board Chair To Leave In Latest Regulator Exit
The chair of the Bar Standards Board is set to leave the agency, becoming the latest high-ranking official to leave one of the industry's regulators in recent weeks.
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March 11, 2025
Clyde & Co Hires RPC White Collar Quartet
Clyde & Co. LLP said Tuesday that it has recruited Sam Tate, the former head of white-collar crime at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, as its global head of regulatory and investigations, along with three other RPC hires.
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March 11, 2025
SRA Calls Apprenticeship Funding Cuts 'Regressive'
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has said that removing levy funding for solicitor apprenticeships would be "a regressive move" as the government plans to overhaul the system in England to introduce more, less costly training.
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March 11, 2025
SRA To Consult Again On New Fining Powers
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it will consult again on plans to revise its fining powers after strong criticism that they could be unlawful and vulnerable to judicial review.
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March 11, 2025
Ex-Bevan Brittan Atty Appeals Antisemitic Tweets Strike Off
A former Bevan Brittan LLP lawyer fought on Tuesday to overturn a disciplinary tribunal's decision to strike him off after it concluded that he had published abusive and antisemitic tweets about prominent U.K. figures, including a well-known barrister.
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March 11, 2025
Fieldfisher Launches Family Health Platform For UK Staff
Fieldfisher LLP has unveiled a platform for all its employees in the U.K. to gain access to reproductive and family health support whenever they need it, boosting its efforts to make its workplace more inclusive.
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March 11, 2025
Dentons Must Face AML Allegations Again After Tribunal Error
Dentons must face allegations that it breached money laundering rules for a second time as a London court sent the Solicitors Regulation Authority's case against the firm back to a disciplinary tribunal for reconsideration on Tuesday after finding the tribunal had taken a mistaken approach to the case.
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March 11, 2025
Latham's Revenue Rises To $7B Off M&A, Litigation Work
Latham & Watkins LLP's revenue increased by $1.3 billion in 2024, with profits per equity partner up nearly 30%, amid "surging" demand for its transactional and litigation services across its global platform, the firm announced Tuesday.
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March 11, 2025
SRA Launches Fund For Disadvantaged SQE Candidates
The Solicitors Regulation Authority launched a £360,000 ($463,000) fund Tuesday to support disadvantaged candidates sitting in the solicitors qualifying exam as part of efforts to bridge the 'troubling gap' between these groups and white, middle-class candidates.
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March 11, 2025
Minority Groups Continue To Underperform On SQE
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that the new qualifying exam it introduced is a "fair and robust assessment," even though Black, Asian and working-class candidates consistently underperform.
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March 10, 2025
Lennons Solicitors Enters Administration
Southeast English law firm Lennons Solicitors has entered into administration after it had operated for more than 40 years, Quantuma Advisory Ltd. said Monday.
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March 10, 2025
Solicitor Was Harassed By Manager's 'Chinese Law' Jibe
A Chinese-born lawyer working at London law firm TWM Solicitors LLP has won her claim for harassment after a managing associate asked her if she was researching Chinese — not English — law, but failed to prove that she faced several instances of discrimination.
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March 10, 2025
Fieldfisher Elects Vivien Davies As Senior Partner
Fieldfisher LLP said Monday that it has elected Vivien Davies, an expert in commercial disputes, as its next senior partner as the firm looks to build upon its expansion in Europe in recent years.
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March 10, 2025
Paul Hastings Reelects Chair, Managing Partner To 2nd Terms
Paul Hastings LLP Chair Frank Lopez and Managing Partner Sherrese Smith have been reelected to their second three-year terms, the firm said Monday.
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March 10, 2025
Partner Moves In London Hit Record Total In Jan. And Feb.
Partner moves in London's legal market hit a new high in January and February amid an exodus from Memery Crystal LLP and continued expansion by U.S. law firms, industry data published by a legal recruitment consultancy revealed on Monday.
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March 10, 2025
Addleshaw Wins Bankruptcy Order Against Former LC&F Boss
Addleshaw Goddard has obtained a bankruptcy order against a former boss of London Capital & Finance after a court ruled he defrauded investors out of £237 million ($306 million) by running the investment company like a Ponzi scheme.
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March 10, 2025
Industry Divided On Funders' Oversight As CJC Review Closes
Submissions to a government-backed review of litigation-funding, which closed this month, have exposed sharp divisions among litigators, funders and trade bodies over whether the market for such financial backing should be targeted with mandatory regulation.
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March 07, 2025
Mauritius Government Lawyer Joins CMS Affiliate
CMS said an attorney with more than a decade of experience as a Mauritius government lawyer has joined CMS Prism, the firm's Mauritian affiliate.
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March 07, 2025
The Revolving Door: 4-5 Gray's Inn Hires 15-Barrister Team
Over the past week, 4-5 Gray's Inn bolstered its employment practice with 15 barristers from The Barrister Group, Pierson Ferdinand LLP hired a magistrate as a partner in its international disputes practice and Haynes Boone and Edwin Coe snagged partners from Memery Crystal amid an ongoing walkout.
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March 07, 2025
Solicitor Struck Off Over Immigration Application Lies
A former lawyer at Seddons Law LLP who repeatedly lied about the immigration applications of "vulnerable" clients he was representing was struck off by the profession's disciplinary tribunal on Friday.
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March 07, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen an Iranian oil company sued for $95 million, Betfred hit with a lawsuit from a property company and NHS England face a human rights claim brought by a man detained under the Mental Health Act for over 20 years. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 07, 2025
Gibson Dunn To Increase Number Of London Trainees
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP said Friday that it will increase the number of trainee solicitors in London by 50%, in a move that demonstrates its commitment to the world's second-largest legal services market.
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March 07, 2025
BSB Suspends Barrister For Sexualized Conduct
A junior barrister has been suspended for three months after a tribunal found that he touched a woman inappropriately without her permission, and made unwanted comments to her, the Bar Standards Board has said.
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March 06, 2025
Fundamental Problems With AML Oversight, Charity Warns
The U.K.'s legal regulators show long-standing and fundamental problems in their approach to anti-money laundering supervision, an anti-corruption charity warned in a report Thursday amid an almost two-year government consultation that has yet to publish its response.