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February 27, 2025
Gibson Dunn Atty Wins Exit From Amazon Worker Dispute
An employment tribunal has dismissed a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyer from a former Amazon worker's unfair dismissal claim after ruling the Dallas-based associate had been dragged into the claim in a case of mistaken identity.
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February 27, 2025
Lib Dem Founder Loses Fight Against Expulsion From Party
A founder of the Liberal Democrats has lost her case that she was unfairly expelled from the party as a London court ruled on Thursday that an internal tribunal had not made errors that invalidated her expulsion over a bullying complaint.
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February 27, 2025
SRA Chief Exec To Retire Amid Torrid Times For Watchdog
The solicitors' watchdog said Thursday that chief executive Paul Philip will retire after more than a decade in the job, amid a turbulent period for the watchdog that has sparked calls for changes at the top.
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February 26, 2025
Law Commission Unveils Plan To Overhaul Criminal Appeals
The criminal appeals system in England and Wales needs to be reformed to allow the wrongfully convicted to successfully challenge their convictions, an independent legal body recommended on Thursday.
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February 26, 2025
PE Investment In UK Law Firms Nears £1.2B Since 2019
Private equity firms have injected almost £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) into law firms in England since 2019, with nearly half of that coming in the last year, a report published on Thursday shows.
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February 26, 2025
Lawyer's Age Bias Win Is A Cue To Revisit Retirement Norms
A legal victory by a Walker Morris LLP partner over the firm's mandatory retirement policy is a "warning shot" to firms underscoring that they cannot rely on forced ousters to make room for younger talent to advance, lawyers say, as the once-declining practice regains popularity.
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February 26, 2025
Orrick Sued For £21M Over Debt Enforcement Advice
A Luxembourgeois unit of hedge fund TREO Asset Management LLC has hit global firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP with a negligence claim in a London court for allegedly failing to advise it to enforce a €21 million ($22 million) debt in a French energy group's insolvency.
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February 26, 2025
Litigation Funder, Investor Settle £16M Arbitral Award Claim
A litigation funder has settled its clash with a Finnish mining investor it accused of owing as much as £16.74 million ($21.2 million) from arbitration proceedings against Egypt over the investor's shuttered iron ore project.
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February 26, 2025
Law Firm Denies Botching Advice On Failed Flat Purchases
A law firm has denied giving negligent advice to investors regarding their failed purchases of flats in a property development, telling a London court that they helped ensure their own downfall by not exploring how risky the deals were.
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February 26, 2025
Solicitor Must Pay £20K To SRA For Baseless Bias Claims
An employment tribunal has ordered a solicitor to pay £20,000 ($25,284) to cover the Solicitors Regulation Authority's costs in defending his baseless allegations of race and disability bias, ruling that it was an exceptional case.
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February 26, 2025
Axiom Ince Crash Sparks Tougher SRA Action Against Firms
The collapse of Axiom Ince Ltd. has "spurred" the solicitors' watchdog into taking more action against law firms over suspected dishonesty and financial misconduct, according to data published on Wednesday by accountants Hazlewoods LLP.
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March 05, 2025
Fladgate Boosts Private Equity Team With Avonhurst Hire
Fladgate LLP has added a corporate mid-market specialist as a partner to its London office, as the firm swoops to bolster its growing private capital practice.
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February 26, 2025
Lawyer Suspended For Improper Use Of Client Account
A City solicitor who was convicted in 2023 for tipping off a client about an anti-money laundering investigation by the Serious Fraud Office has been suspended by a tribunal for improper use of a client account.
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February 25, 2025
Bird & Bird Equips Lawyers With Legora Generative Tool
Bird & Bird LLP said Tuesday that it has armed the whole firm with Legora's generative text platform aiming to cut turnaround times and free up its lawyers' time.
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February 25, 2025
Why DeepSeek Is A Turning Point For Some Legal AI Vendors
As law firms remain tentative about using DeepSeek's generative artificial intelligence tool, legal technology vendors are more optimistic, with some already exploring the AI model and integrating it into their platforms.
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February 25, 2025
Half Of Judges Considering Early Exit Over Workload, Pay
Almost half of salaried judges are thinking about retiring from their post early because of a strenuous workload and limits on pay awards, according to a survey published Tuesday.
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February 25, 2025
BCLP Reports Double-Digit Growth In UK Revenue
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP said Tuesday that its U.K. business grew by 12% in 2024, far outpacing the firm's overall global growth.
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February 25, 2025
Law Firm Sues Ad Agency For £200K Over Failure To Bring Biz
A law firm in Sussex has demanded that a marketing agency return £205,003 ($259,411), claiming that it was paid to find hundreds of potential claimants for the firm but had only managed to identify a dozen.
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February 24, 2025
Gunnercooke Opens In Chicago With Ex-FisherBroyles Team
U.K.-based law firm Gunnercooke LLP announced the launch of a Chicago office, marking the second state it has entered since launching in New York in 2022.
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February 24, 2025
AI Models Improving, But Still Require Oversight, Report Says
Two newer artificial intelligence programs, OpenAI o1 and Google Gemini 2.0, performed far better than other large language models when tested on legal questions, a recent Linklaters LLP report has found, but the law firm still does not recommend their use in English law advice without human supervision.
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February 24, 2025
Mishcon Wants To Boost AI Uptake With Pilot Program
Mishcon de Reya LLP said Monday that it had teamed up with a legal artificial intelligence platform to give its lawyers a slew of new collaborative tools, as the firm hopes to embrace generative technology more widely.
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February 24, 2025
Squire Patton Boggs Promotes 17 To Partnership
Squire Patton Boggs LLP said Monday it has elevated 17 of its lawyers to partnership and three to principal across 13 of the firm's global offices.
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February 24, 2025
Freshfields Launches In Boston, Led By Ex-Latham Partner
London-founded Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has opened its fourth U.S. office in Boston, and that it has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner to lead the Beantown build-out.
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February 24, 2025
WilsonAI Raises $1.7M For 'AI Paralegal'
London-based in-house legal software startup WilsonAI announced Monday the raising of $1.7 million in preseed funding to expand its AI Paralegal product.
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February 21, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Russell Brand sued by publishing house Macmillan, administrators of London Capital & Finance sue the collapsed firm's former lawyers Buss Murton Law LLP, Tesco bring a competition claim against fish suppliers, and former Entain execs sue Addleshaw Goddard over privileged information. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.