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October 24, 2024
Addleshaw Goddard Names Tech Companies For Mentorship
Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced on Thursday that it has awarded more than a dozen start-up tech companies places on a legal mentorship and advisory program that it runs each year to help innovative businesses overcome their legal challenges.
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October 24, 2024
Charles Russell Brings On Tax Specialist From Sheridans
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP hired a partner from Sheridans as part of expanding its London tax practice to support its strategy focused on private capital, the firm said.
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October 24, 2024
Kennedys Turns To US For New Global Managing Partner
Kennedys named the firm's regional chief in the U.S. as its second global managing partner on Thursday as it looks poised to go from strength to strength after it recently recorded revenues of more than £380 million ($493 million).
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October 31, 2024
Bird & Bird Taps Dutch Financial Regulation Pro
Bird & Bird LLP has hired an experienced financial regulation expert as a partner in The Hague, as the law firm looks to bolster its finance practice in the Netherlands and across Europe.
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October 24, 2024
CMS Partner To Lead IP Committee At City Law Society
The City of London Law Society has named a CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP partner as the chair of its new intellectual property law committee.
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October 30, 2024
Cooley Hires Gowling Life Sciences Chief In London
Cooley LLP announced Wednesday that it has recruited a senior life sciences and patent specialist at Gowling WLG as it looks to continue expanding its legal services offerings in London.
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October 23, 2024
Mitsubishi Bank's Co-GC Talks Tackling The Legal Pay War
James Morgan is using his financial clout at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. to help the Japanese megabank tackle a spiraling pay war in the legal sector.
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October 23, 2024
Travers Smith Launches AI Training Program For Staff
Travers Smith LLP announced on Wednesday that it has launched an internal training program to improve literacy on artificial intelligence across the business as more and more firms make use of new technology for client work.
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October 23, 2024
UK Top Court Clarifies Solicitor Payment Rules In Fee Dispute
The U.K.'s highest court ruled Wednesday that a crash victim should be able to challenge solicitors fees because he had not been given an opportunity to question the costs, meaning the time limit for reassessment did not apply.
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October 23, 2024
Consumers Trust Regulation Despite Scandals, SRA Says
About three-quarters of consumers and small and medium-sized businesses in England and Wales think legal services are well regulated — despite recent scandals in the profession, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Wednesday recent research found.
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October 23, 2024
SRA Taps New AML Director As Regulatory Uncertainty Looms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Wednesday that it has appointed a new director of anti-money laundering, as the watchdog awaits a decision from the government on whether it will continue to supervise the industry in this area.
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October 22, 2024
Real Estate Co. Hits Back At Taylor Wessing's Fees Claim
A real estate company owned by Southend United Football Club's former chair has fought Taylor Wessing LLP's claim to recoup unpaid fees and expenses, saying the company is not liable to pay the football club's legal bills.
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October 22, 2024
Norton Rose Names Atty Duo As Global Arbitration Leaders
Norton Rose Fulbright has elevated the firm's U.S. arbitration team leader and a London-based partner to co-lead its global international arbitration practice, shaking up the group's leadership for the first time in over a decade, the firm announced Tuesday.
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October 22, 2024
Tribunal Judge Reprimanded For 17-Month Delay In Decision
The U.K.'s judicial conduct watchdog said Tuesday that it had issued formal advice to a tribunal judge after a member of the public complained that she had taken more than a year to deliver a judgment.
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October 22, 2024
Firm Says Client Knew Risks In Historical Sex Abuse Case
Hugh James has said that a former client knowingly accepted the risk of being undercompensated when he followed the law firm's advice to accept an offer to settle a claim over alleged historical abuse at a Catholic school where he was a pupil.
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October 22, 2024
Kingsley Napley Doubles Down On AML Amid SRA Uncertainty
The recent departure of the anti-money laundering director at the solicitors' watchdog has put the spotlight on the regulator's role as an AML supervisor for the legal sector, as Kingsley Napley LLP capitalizes on this opportunity to boost its advisory services in this area.
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October 22, 2024
Reforms Set To Foist 15% More Cases On Struggling Tribunals
Even though the U.K. government expects its proposed employment rights law to lead to a 15% rise in cases, it hasn't committed any additional funding for employment tribunals to handle such an increase, which would present an existential threat to the beleaguered system.
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October 22, 2024
Bird & Bird Hires M&A Pro In Milan From A&O
Bird & Bird LLP has added an experienced M&A and private equity expert as a partner to its main office in Milan, as part of the law firm's long-term strategy to bolster its global corporate platform.
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October 22, 2024
Closed Law Firm Must Pay Ex-Staffer For Breach Of Contract
A tribunal has ordered a shuttered law firm to pay a former employee £2,400 ($3,100) after it breached their contract by dismissing them without notice.
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October 21, 2024
Former Unite Official Loses Tribunal Claim Amid Fraud Probe
A tribunal has concluded that a former legal chief at Unite the Union did not face a "baseless" disciplinary investigation in connection with a police raid over a £112 million ($145 million) construction project that has since been referred to the Serious Fraud Office.
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October 21, 2024
Howard Kennedy LLP Ex-Partner Can't Claim £176K
An employment tribunal has dismissed a former partner's claims that Howard Kennedy LLP owed him £176,725 ($230,238) in unpaid wages because he wasn't entitled to employment law protections.
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October 21, 2024
Kirkland Hires 2 Structured Finance Attys In NY, London
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is continuing the build-out of its structured finance and private credit practice, announcing on Saturday the lateral hiring of two partners in New York and London.
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October 21, 2024
Judge Sanctioned Over Speeding Conviction
Britain's judicial conduct watchdog has sanctioned a judge for misconduct after she received a speeding conviction last year, though it said it took into account the judge's claim that she was fleeing from an "aggressive" vehicle.
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October 28, 2024
Commercial Barrister Joins Monckton From 2 Temple Gardens
Monckton Chambers has recruited a new barrister from 2 Temple Gardens in a move that adds expertise to its ranks across a broad range of arbitration and commercial matters.
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October 21, 2024
Top UK Firms Boost Hourly Rates By 40% Over 5 Years
The top 10 U.K.-headquartered law firms have increased their hourly rates by nearly 40% over the past five years as global legal outfits reassess their international footprint and scale back in less-profitable countries, a report published Monday revealed.