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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.
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February 28, 2025
DWF Hires 4 Marine Insurance Pros From Kennedys
DWF LLP said Friday that it has recruited the head of Kennedys' marine insurance practice and three others to join its team in London.
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February 21, 2025
The Revolving Door: Memery Crystal Exodus Continues
Over the past week, the departures from Memery Crystal continued with moves to Edwin Coe and Lawrence Stephens, while Walker Morris tapped an Addleshaw Goddard lawyer for its newly created innovation lead role and Gibson Dunn snagged a DLA partner to lead its new London funds practice.
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February 21, 2025
Jenner Offers Global Team To Clients In Lawmakers' Sights
Jenner & Block LLP partners Emily Loeb and Joanna Ludlam recently spoke to Law360 Pulse about the firm's new global hearing preparation practice, which builds on its existing congressional investigations work and prepares clients for high-stakes public appearances around the world.
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February 21, 2025
Latham Promotes 19 Counsel To Partner In US, Europe & Asia
Less than three months after electing two dozen associates to the partnership, Latham & Watkins LLP said it has elevated 19 counsel from 14 offices around the world to partner, effective March 1.
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February 21, 2025
Manchester Law Firm Avoids Closure Over £590K Debt Claim
A judge has blocked a claims management company from shuttering a Manchester law firm amid its alleged debt of £588,000 ($743,400), citing a "genuine" dispute over whether the firm actually owes any money.
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February 21, 2025
Saudi Royal Wins Bid To Access Ex-Linklaters Pro's Accounts
A judge gave the green light Friday to a Saudi Arabian princess to ask eight banks to hand over information about the accounts of a former Linklaters partner who has failed to pay £40 million ($50 million) in judgment debt despite court orders.
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February 21, 2025
Ex-Walker Morris Pro Wins Bias Case Over Retirement Policy
Walker Morris LLP unlawfully discriminated against a 63-year-old senior partner by enforcing a mandatory retirement policy and ending his partnership in the law firm, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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February 21, 2025
SFO's Top Lawyer Says IT Glitch Won't Threaten Convictions
Matthew Wagstaff, the Serious Fraud Office's new top lawyer, is clear. Your client's conviction for fraud, bribery or corruption? It's safe.
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February 21, 2025
Barristers' Watchdog Set To Bring Cases Over Post Office IT
The barristers' regulator said Friday that it will begin prosecuting individuals involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal this summer, a day after the Solicitors Regulation Authority reiterated its commitment to take action against solicitors who had "fallen short."
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February 21, 2025
Mastercard Wins Green Light For £200M Swipe Fee Settlement
The Competition Appeal Tribunal said Friday it would approve a £200 million ($250 million) settlement between Mastercard and Walter Merricks to end litigation over credit card fees, despite "some concerns about how the matter was dealt with" in the lead-up to the deal being reached.
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February 21, 2025
Ex-Dechert GC Subpoenaed Over Gerrard Abuse Claims
An imprisoned Jordanian lawyer can subpoena the former general counsel of Dechert LLP over what the leadership of the law firm knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner in the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. federal judge has ruled.
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February 20, 2025
Weil Says Executive Partner To Retire, Adds Global Committee
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Thursday that it will be restructuring its leadership team in anticipation of its executive partner Barry Wolf's retirement in a few years.
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February 20, 2025
Solicitor Struck Off After Using Fake Name For Medical Info
A disciplinary tribunal has banned a veteran solicitor from practicing after she admitted that she deliberately provided misleading details about the signing of a legal document and gave a fake name to a hospital to access confidential medical information about a client.
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February 20, 2025
Simmons & Simmons To Target Lawyers From Working Class
Simmons & Simmons LLP on Thursday unveiled targets for the first time to boost social mobility in its U.K. offices over the next four years as it looks to have a fifth of its lawyers come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds within that time.
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February 27, 2025
Baker Botts Hires White & Case's Ex-Project Finance Chief
Baker Botts LLP has hired a new global projects partner to its London office from White & Case LLP, with the new arrival also set to co-chair its project finance group.
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February 20, 2025
Conflicts Should Block Mastercard Settlement, Innsworth Says
Litigation-funder Innsworth told the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday that the negotiating process behind a £200 million ($250 million) settlement to end a mass claim against Mastercard has created conflicts of interest which mean the deal should be refused.
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February 20, 2025
Skadden Hikes London NQ Pay To £177K In Battle For Talent
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has increased salaries of freshly qualified lawyers in its London office to £177,000 ($224,000) as it boosts its efforts in the battle for emerging legal talent in the City.
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February 19, 2025
Swedish Legal AI Co. Leya Rebrands To Legora
Swedish legal artificial intelligence platform Leya, which raised over $35 million across two funding rounds last year, announced Wednesday it rebranded to Legora and has updated features for its generative software.