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May 30, 2024
LSB Delays SRA Axiom Ince Probe Results Until After Election
The Legal Services Board said Thursday that it is delaying publishing a report of its probe into how the Solicitors Regulation Authority handled the collapse of Axiom Ince Ltd. until after the general election.
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May 29, 2024
Lawyer Loses Bid To Nix SRA Probe Over COVID Vax Letters
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal on Wednesday tossed a bid by an impugned solicitor to have his prosecution struck out for abuse of process, saying the case regarding whether he misused his position in representing vaccine-hesitant clients should proceed to trial.
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May 29, 2024
Taylor Wessing Says £395K Unpaid For Advising Football Club
Taylor Wessing LLP is suing a real estate company owned by the chairman of Southend United FC for £394,733 ($502,000) that it alleges remains unpaid after the law firm provided legal services to the National League football club.
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May 29, 2024
Watchdog To Treble Compensation Fund Fee For Attys, Firms
The solicitors' watchdog for England and Wales has set out plans to treble the compensation fund contribution required of lawyers and firms next year following a slew of high-profile claims and interventions over the past 18 months.
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May 29, 2024
Linklaters Promotes 2 Partners In US And Germany
Linklaters LLP announced two key promotions of partners to capital markets leadership roles on Wednesday.
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May 29, 2024
Barrister Fined For Not Disclosing SRA Investigation
A lawyer was fined £5,000 ($6,360) Wednesday for not informing the barrister's regulator of an investigation into him by the Solicitors Regulation Authority over a failure to safeguard client information and assets by a law firm he ran.
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May 29, 2024
Ex-BigLaw Associate On Starting Legal Tech Co. Robin AI
Richard Robinson, a former BigLaw associate and founder and CEO of contract review software company Robin AI, believes artificial intelligence can help reduce attorney burnout, increase diversity in the legal profession and change society's perception of lawyers.
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May 29, 2024
Clifford Chance Joins Rivals In Boosting NQ Salaries To £150K
Clifford Chance LLP said on Wednesday that it will be upping salaries for newly qualified lawyers to £150,000 ($190,000), joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and Linklaters LLP while leaving behind A&O Shearman and Slaughter and May, other Magic Circle firms.
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May 29, 2024
McDermott Hires Senior Restructuring Pro For London Office
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has added a senior consultant to its transactions practice as the firm looks to bolster its ability to advise on cross-border companies in financial distress.
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May 29, 2024
UK Law Firms Turning To Tech Quicker Than Global Peers
U.K. law firms are adopting new technologies such as artificial intelligence at a quicker pace than their global rivals in response to economic headwinds, according to a report released Wednesday.
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May 28, 2024
Lawyer Wants To Strike COVID Probe As Abuse Of Process
A solicitor asked the profession's disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday to strike out his prosecution, claiming the legal regulatory body's attempt to sanction him over his representation of workers opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine is an abuse of process.
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May 28, 2024
Judicial Selection Body Sets Out Plans To Attract More Judges
The judge-nominating body for England and Wales has said it must become a "centre of excellence in selection" to attract talented judges while improving diversity across the bench — including boosting the number of solicitors in the judiciary.
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May 28, 2024
Greenberg Traurig Adds Tax Pro From MoFo In London
Greenberg Traurig LLP added to its deep bench of legal talent by recruiting a tax partner from Morrison & Foerster to join the firm's London office and co-chair its tax practice, the firm said.
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May 28, 2024
Property Firm Fined £12K For Anti-Money Laundering Failures
The Solicitors Regulation Authority fined a London property solicitors £12,777 ($16,300) after the firm carried out transactions for partners and their family members without appropriate anti-money laundering policies.
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May 28, 2024
15 Firms Win Spots On Housing Provider's £30M Legal Panel
One of the U.K.'s largest housing and care providers has appointed 16 firms, including Gowling WLG, Mills & Reeve LLP and Bevan Brittan LLP, to its legal panel, backed by £30 million ($38.3 million) in funding.
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May 28, 2024
Financial Penalties To Retain Lawyers Could Be Risky Move
As U.S. firms increasingly recruit partners from rival U.K. firms, outfits in Britain are responding by introducing financial penalties to curb the exodus and losses to business — a strategy that experts warn could come back to bite them in the long run.
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May 24, 2024
The UK Laws That Will Pass Or Fail As Election Looms
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to call an early general election to be held on July 4 has left several pieces of legislation hanging in the balance during the so-called "wash-up" period before Parliament is formally dissolved, while others have been pushed through.
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May 24, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen an IT engineer seek permission to search a landfill hiding a hard drive supposedly storing millions of pounds in bitcoin, Glencore take on legal action by American Century Investments, gold payment app Glint bring a breach of duty claim against FRP Advisory, and an ongoing dispute between a solicitor and the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 24, 2024
White & Case Hires Funds Specialist For Lux Office
White & Case LLP has hired a private funds formation expert to join the firm as a partner in the firm's new Luxembourg office, where he will join its global mergers and acquisitions team to advise clients on assets such as private equity and real estate.
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May 24, 2024
A&O Shearman Picks 19 Participants For Tech Hub Cohort
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, or A&O Shearman, has selected a group of 19 companies specializing in digital assets to join a seven-month program at its innovative tech incubator, Fuse, after going through 230 applications.
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May 24, 2024
Law Firm Partner Says Sorry For Expert Witness Interference
A Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP partner has apologized to a London court for overstepping in his interference with an expert witness' statement amid his client's feud with AXA XL.
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May 24, 2024
Ex-Post Office Boss Blames Scandal On Bad Legal Advice
Paula Vennells blamed the advice of her senior lawyers for not becoming aware of the wrongful prosecutions by the Post Office of innocent people based on faulty IT data, as she gave evidence to the inquiry into the scandal Friday.
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May 24, 2024
MoJ Told It Does Not Understand Its Own Legal Aid Reforms
The Ministry of Justice and the Legal Aid Agency still lack a firm grasp on the costs and benefits of the U.K.'s legal aid reforms 11 years after their introduction, a parliamentary committee said Friday.
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May 24, 2024
Plans To Cut Crown Court Backlog 'Can't Be Achieved'
Proposals to cut the Crown Court backlog to 53,000 cases by March 2025 are no longer attainable as the number has ballooned to the highest level ever recorded, a damning report by the public sector spending watchdog revealed on Friday.
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May 23, 2024
White & Case Adds Former A&O Tax Pro In Luxembourg
White & Case LLP announced it has added a tax partner to its Luxembourg office from A&O Shearman who specializes in international and Luxembourg corporate tax law.