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Pulse UK
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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June 06, 2024
Law Firm Rebuked Over Client Account Shortage
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that it has rebuked a defunct law firm after it misused a client's funds and caused a shortage in its client account.
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June 06, 2024
Labour Drops Antisemitism Report Leak Claim On Ex-Staffers
The Labour Party dropped on Thursday its legal claims against five former employees who it said conspired to leak a damning report on how its internal disciplinary body mishandled allegations of antisemitism and undermined its leader at the time, Jeremy Corbyn.
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June 05, 2024
K&L Gates Adds Ex-Norton Rose IP Team In Frankfurt
K&L Gates LLP has bolstered its intellectual property practice in its 30-attorney Frankfurt office with the addition of a team from Norton Rose Fullbright LLP, including a partner who works closely with fashion and luxury product clients.
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June 05, 2024
DLA Piper Atty, Ex-UK Official On Practicing Across The Pond
In returning to the United States after nearly two decades in London, former Serious Fraud Office official Judy Krieg says DLA Piper was the ideal place to serve clients and leverage the skills she has gained from working on both sides of the Atlantic.
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June 05, 2024
Saudi Investor Bids To Revive Legal Costs Claim Against RLS
A Saudi Arabian property investor urged a London judge Wednesday to revive his claim against a law firm to recover the costs of investigating and litigating an alleged £35 million ($44.6 million) fraud by a former property business partner that settled mid-trial.
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June 05, 2024
NQ Salary Hikes Spark Ripple Effect Through Legal Sector
The continuing wave of salary increase for newly qualified lawyers across London's top firms is triggering shock waves across the legal sector — including at clients — prompting concerns about distorted hiring markets and the impact on tight legal budgets.
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June 05, 2024
Linklaters Ends Cessation Payments To Partners
Linklaters LLP has ended its system of "cessation" payments to partners leaving the Magic Circle firm following two decades of service after recently putting the proposal to the vote of the firm's partnership.
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June 05, 2024
Birketts To Open Office In Bristol
Birketts LLP said Wednesday that it is opening a seventh office with a new outpost in Bristol, as it aims to grow its offering in southwest England's main legal hub.
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June 05, 2024
Scottish Defenders Boycott Abuse Cases As Pay Talks Stall
Criminal defense lawyers in Scotland have restarted their boycott of domestic abuse cases after talks with the Scottish government over legal aid reform broke down.
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June 05, 2024
Travers Smith Promotes Six New Partners
Travers Smith LLP said Wednesday that six lawyers across its practice groups are being bumped to partnerships in 2024, increasing its numbers after a spate of partner exits to City rivals.
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June 05, 2024
Alston & Bird Hires 2 Arbitration Pros In London
Alston & Bird LLP has recruited two specialists in international arbitration from a law firm in Dubai in a move to strengthen its capabilities in commercial and construction disputes as well as investor-state cases.
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June 05, 2024
Slater And Gordon Fight Ex-Analyst's Redundancy Appeal
Slater and Gordon LLP challenged on Wednesday an appeal by a former costs analyst, who claims that he was made redundant because he was mentally unwell and wrongly deprived of most of a £20,000 ($25,500) bonus.
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June 05, 2024
Goodwin Ups NQ Lawyers' Salary To £175K In Pay War
Goodwin Procter LLP said Wednesday that it has raised the annual salary of newly qualified solicitors in London to £175,000 ($223,000), another sign that the pay war among top law firms in the British capital is still heating up.
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June 04, 2024
Unsexy Cases Face Litigation Funding Gap, UK Judge Says
A judge formerly in charge of the U.K.'s Commercial Court told a conference in London on Tuesday that the growth of third-party funding could preclude claims that cannot be "commoditized" from being litigated.
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June 04, 2024
White & Case Hires Berlin Partner With ESG Focus
White & Case LLP has hired a new regulatory partner in Germany on the back of several additions that bolster its capabilities in the country.