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June 10, 2024
Lawyer Struck Off After Mishandling Client Cash
Former lawyer Dominic Macknight has been struck off the roll of solicitors after admitting to moving money from his firm's client account into the law firm's office account, and therefore violating the rules of the profession, a tribunal ruled on Monday.
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June 10, 2024
Law Firms Urged To Step Up Support For Carer Employees
New research shows that two-thirds of carers who work in the legal sector have been juggling their caring responsibilities alongside their career, underscoring the need for law firms to offer better support for carers within the legal profession.
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June 17, 2024
Hogan Lovells Adds Insurance Pro From Slaughter And May
Hogan Lovells has bolstered its London corporate insurance practice by tapping a former senior counsel from Slaughter and May as a partner.
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June 10, 2024
Goodwin Procter Moves To Bigger Office In Luxembourg
Goodwin Procter LLP said on Monday that it has relocated staff in Luxembourg to a bigger office, fueled by a growth in demand from clients for legal services on private investment funds.
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June 08, 2024
Bar Chair Urges Next Gov't To Fix 'Parlous' Justice System
The chair of the Bar Council on Saturday urged the next government to allocate an additional £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) to restore England and Wales' court and publicly funded justice infrastructure after more than a decade of underfunding.
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June 07, 2024
Derains & Gharavi Hires Int'l Arbitration Counsel In Paris
Derains & Gharavi, a law firm in Paris that focuses on resolving international disputes via arbitral proceedings, has hired a lawyer who previously worked within the litigation and arbitration team at Bredin Prat SAS.
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June 07, 2024
Law Society Elects A Scott Moncrieff Lawyer For Deputy VP
The Law Society said Friday that a specialist in civil litigation will become its next deputy vice president as it plans for the future, with the profession looking to continue boosting diversity and to exploit opportunities from advances in technology.
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June 07, 2024
Faegre Drinker Hires K&L Gates Investment Management Head
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired the former head of investment management at K&L Gates LLP as a partner in the firm's investment management practice group in London, the firm announced Thursday.
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June 07, 2024
5 Questions For Finnegan UK TM Chief Clare Cornell
Clare Cornell, the head of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP's trademark group in London, talks to Law360 about the appeal of working on trademarks and how Finnegan's practice has evolved since she joined in 2016.
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June 07, 2024
Patent Firm Seeks To Ax Claim Over £1.5M Settlement Advice
Patent solicitors Atkinson Wheller Ltd. asked a court Friday to throw out a negligence claim brought on behalf of a former client, because the deed transferring the claim to a law firm was "void and unenforceable."
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June 07, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen British broadcaster GB News hit with a libel claim by climate activist Dale Vince, MGM take aim at an immersive events company over intellectual property rights to the James Bond franchise, and law firms Stephenson Harwood and Bowen-Morris & Partners tackle a contracts claim by investment adviser Yieldstreet. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 07, 2024
Law Society Warns Of 'Crisis' Amid Small-Claims Delays
The Law Society has warned that crumbling courts and attempts to modernize the justice system through technology have exacerbated delays for litigants pursuing access to justice, after government data revealed that small claims are taking more than a year to reach trial.
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June 07, 2024
Financial Adviser Gets 8 Years For Legal Funding Fraud
A London judge sentenced a former financial adviser to eight years in prison on Friday after he was convicted of siphoning £5.8 million ($7.4 million) in secret commission payments from an investment fund in a legal financing fraud.
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June 14, 2024
Bird & Bird London Arbitration Chief Floats New Solo Practice
The head of international arbitration at Bird & Bird LLP in London has left his job and set up a solo practice in a move to focus on the types of arbitration he enjoys without the shackles of a big firm.
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June 06, 2024
US Law Firms In London Saw Profits Dip Below £1B In 2023
A slowdown in transactional work in the London legal market caused profits of top U.S. law firms there to dip below £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in 2023, but U.K. law firms with broader practices were largely shielded from the decline, accounting firm Hazlewoods LLP reported Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
Post Office Board Missed Clues, Former Chair Tells Inquiry
A former chair of the Post Office Ltd. board told the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal on Thursday that the board did not act on a number of "clues" suggesting that the company was wrongly prosecuting innocent subpostmasters.
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June 06, 2024
Mayer Brown Pro Bono Chief To Stand For Starmer's Seat
The Conservative Party has picked the pro bono chief of Mayer Brown LLP to stand against Labour Party leader Keir Starmer for the Holborn and St. Pancras constituency in the U.K. general election on July 4.
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June 06, 2024
Solicitor Wins Worker Status In Unfair Dismissal Claim
An employment judge has ruled that a consultant solicitor working on "flexible terms" for a U.K. law firm counts as a worker, rather than being self-employed, in her unfair dismissal claim against the firm.
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June 06, 2024
Hill Dickinson Adds 9 Partners In Latest Promotions Round
Hill Dickinson LLP on Thursday named nine newly promoted lawyers to its partnership, a higher number than the previous year with women accounting for nearly half of the group.
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June 06, 2024
5 Questions For Linklaters Partner Guillaume Couneson
Since European Union law negotiators gave final approval in May to the first worldwide rules on artificial intelligence, the pressure on global banks and insurers to prepare to comply has started. Here, Guillaume Couneson, a partner at Linklaters, tells Law360 that regulators are likely to focus initially on low-hanging fruit breaches.
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June 06, 2024
Law Firm Rebuked Over Client Account Shortage
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that it has rebuked a defunct law firm after it misused a client's funds and caused a shortage in its client account.
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June 06, 2024
Labour Drops Antisemitism Report Leak Claim On Ex-Staffers
The Labour Party dropped on Thursday its legal claims against five former employees who it said conspired to leak a damning report on how its internal disciplinary body mishandled allegations of antisemitism and undermined its leader at the time, Jeremy Corbyn.
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June 05, 2024
K&L Gates Adds Ex-Norton Rose IP Team In Frankfurt
K&L Gates LLP has bolstered its intellectual property practice in its 30-attorney Frankfurt office with the addition of a team from Norton Rose Fullbright LLP, including a partner who works closely with fashion and luxury product clients.
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June 05, 2024
DLA Piper Atty, Ex-UK Official On Practicing Across The Pond
In returning to the United States after nearly two decades in London, former Serious Fraud Office official Judy Krieg says DLA Piper was the ideal place to serve clients and leverage the skills she has gained from working on both sides of the Atlantic.
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June 05, 2024
Saudi Investor Bids To Revive Legal Costs Claim Against RLS
A Saudi Arabian property investor urged a London judge Wednesday to revive his claim against a law firm to recover the costs of investigating and litigating an alleged £35 million ($44.6 million) fraud by a former property business partner that settled mid-trial.