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  • June 10, 2024

    Global Law Firm Experiments With 3 Generative AI Tools

    London-headquartered international firm Ashurst LLP has been experimenting with three different generative artificial intelligence tools and found these tools can help with writing first drafts more quickly and efficiently, according to a report released Monday.

  • June 10, 2024

    Fladgate Hires Construction Pro From Memery Crystal

    Fladgate LLP has recruited the former head of construction and engineering at Memery Crystal LLP as a partner in a move to boost its capabilities representing clients in major projects.

  • June 10, 2024

    England's Top Judge Urges KCs To Boost Junior Advocacy

    The country's most senior judge has urged top barristers to give opportunities to junior counsel to practice their advocacy skills in court, as part of ongoing efforts to boost gender diversity in the bar.

  • June 10, 2024

    Starmer Could Crack Judicial Crisis, Former CPS Chiefs Say

    Keir Starmer's lead in the polls as the general election in July approaches has sparked hopes among criminal justice advocates that the Labour leader — a former top prosecutor — will implement reforms as prime minister.

  • June 10, 2024

    Judge Urges Resilience Amid Erosion Of Trust In Int'l Courts

    A leading British judge has urged the legal profession "to hang on in there" amid escalating global unrest that is eroding trust in international courts.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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