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March 05, 2025
Law Firms' Earnings Grew 6.1% In 2024, Law Society Says
U.K. law firms on average saw their earnings grow 6.1% in 2024, despite challenges posed by rising costs within the legal sector, the Law Society said Wednesday.
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March 12, 2025
PCB Byrne Adds Civil Litigation Pro In London
PCB Byrne LLP has hired Simon Colledge as a new civil litigation partner from Gunnercooke LLP to work in its dispute resolution team in London, as the firm ramps up its offering in its insolvency practice.
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March 04, 2025
Crown Courts Set To Oversee Record Number Of Cases
The Ministry of Justice announced Wednesday that Crown Court judges will sit at a record high level across the next financial year, as a spending watchdog warned that the government is failing to boost confidence in a system plagued by delay.
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March 04, 2025
Lawyers See Chance For Overhaul In LSB, SRA Exec Changes
A change of guard at two of the key regulators of the U.K. legal sector has sparked calls for a root-and-branch reassessment of their roles amid criticism that the watchdogs are overreaching.
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March 04, 2025
Firms Must Retain Control Of Client Cash, City Lawyers Say
The City of London Law Society has criticized proposals to allow third parties to hold and manage client money, calling instead on the regulator to adopt a more modern approach to regulating the sector.
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March 04, 2025
Judge Slams Lawyers For Bringing Welsh Injury Case At RCJ
A London judge has chastised the lawyers involved in a personal injury case for keeping the relatively small claim at the High Court, saying that hiring a London lawyer was not a good enough reason to litigate in the capital.
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March 04, 2025
LSB Calls For Legal, Financial Oversight Of Litigation Funding
Legal and financial watchdogs must work together to regulate the litigation funding market and protect consumers from potential risks, the Legal Services Board said in a document released Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Gov't Defends Decision To Pull Firm's Legal Aid Contract Offer
The Ministry of Justice has hit back at allegations it unlawfully withdrew a contract offer for legal aid services from an English law firm, telling the High Court that the withdrawal was a result of the firm's "own error and neglect."
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March 04, 2025
Barclays Official Kept In Dark About Staley's Email To Epstein
Former Barclays boss Jes Staley told Jeffrey Epstein about forthcoming press coverage detailing their relationship without the bank's knowledge, its former head of communications testified at a trial on Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
BNY Tries To Escape £93M Nationwide, A&O Negligence Case
Bank of New York Mellon on Tuesday asked a London court to dismiss Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's claims that the bank negligently caused Nationwide Building Society to face a £93 million ($118 million) tax bill by mishandling the issuance of notes.
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March 03, 2025
2 Temple Gardens Co-Head Didn't Mislead Court, Judge Finds
A High Court judge ruled in a hearing Monday that a co-head of 2 Temple Gardens and a solicitor did not mislead the court in a long-running dispute with a Black barrister who claimed he was expelled from the set because of his race.
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March 03, 2025
Orrick Hikes London NQ Salary To £160K
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has handed its newly qualified lawyers based in London a double-digit pay bump, raising their salaries to £160,000 ($203,276).
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March 03, 2025
Simmons & Simmons Elects New Managing Partner
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Monday that it has elected a construction disputes expert as its new managing partner, to succeed Jeremy Hoyland who has been in the job since 2011.
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March 03, 2025
Knights Inks £30M Takeover Of Regional UK Law Firm
Knights said Monday it has agreed to buy IBB Law LLP for up to £30 million ($38.1 million), adding 140 lawyers to its ranks in a move to scale up its presence in southeast England.
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March 03, 2025
Egyptian Tycoon Says Baker Botts Overcharged In $7M Claim
An Egyptian energy mogul has told a London court that Baker Botts LLP breached Solicitors Regulation Authority rules when it failed to control its costs as he continued to fight the firm's claim for $7 million in fees.
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February 28, 2025
Tribunal 'Impressed' After Lawyer Admits Touching Co-Worker
A tribunal on Friday said it was "impressed" with a barrister's efforts to make amends after he admitted to putting his hand up a co-worker's skirt, and handed the lawyer a significantly reduced suspension for the misconduct because of "compelling mitigation."
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February 28, 2025
The Revolving Door: Skadden's McCarney Returns To Eversheds
Over the past week, a Skadden private capital lawyer rejoined Eversheds Sutherland, Freshfields added a pair of energy and infrastructure lawyers from Paul Hastings, and A&O Shearman lost a finance partner to DLA.
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February 28, 2025
Freshfields Taps Paul Hastings Energy And Infrastructure Duo
Freshfields LLP said Friday it has hired two energy and infrastructure partners from Paul Hastings LLP to its London office, including the global co-chair of that firm's corporate group, as it looks to take advantage of shifting policy agendas.
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February 28, 2025
SRA Says It Has Completed SSB Investigation
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has completed its investigation into claims firm SSB Law, taking action against several people working at the now-collapsed firm.
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February 28, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the billionaire Zakay brothers, founders of Topland Group, become embroiled in a legal dispute with each other, Unilever sue three major perfume companies over alleged illegal price-fixing, and the publisher of Vogue magazine file an intellectual property suit against Cornucopia Events. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 28, 2025
Bates Wells Elects 1st Part-Time Managing Partner
Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLP said Friday that it has elected its first part-time managing partner, sending a strong signal in a profession where long hours are often baked into the culture.
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February 28, 2025
LSB Chair Steps Down Halfway Through 1st Term
The chair of the Legal Services Board stepped down halfway through his first term on Friday, citing personal reasons — the second departure of a senior figure from one of the sector's regulators in a week.
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February 27, 2025
Court Clerk Can Keep Most Of £226K Retirement Payout
A former court clerk has won the right to collect the majority of his £226,800 ($287,500) retirement payout, convincing a tribunal that the Ministry of Justice can only subtract £88,800 for a lump sum he has already picked up.
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February 27, 2025
Group Claims Firm Opens 2nd UK Office In London
Specialist group litigation firm Johnson Law has opened a new office in London — and it's on the hunt to recruit "some of the best legal talent in the country," its U.K. managing director said Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
Paul Weiss Revenue Grows By More Than 30%
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP reported high double-digit growth in 2024, with revenue increasing by more than 30% amid continued success on both sides of the Atlantic.