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October 15, 2024
KPMG Adopts ContractPodAi's Legal Assistant Leah
Contract management software provider ContractPodAi, which launched an automated legal assistant earlier this year, announced Tuesday a new partnership with London's KPMG that will provide artificial intelligence to the Big Four accounting firm and its managed legal services.
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October 15, 2024
Burges Salmon Ups Junior Pay In Bristol And Edinburgh
Burges Salmon LLP has boosted the salaries of its trainees and newly qualified solicitors in Bristol and Edinburgh as it seeks to continue its investment in junior staff.
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October 21, 2024
Jones Day Adds Patent Litigation Pro From CMS In London
Jones Day has appointed a new intellectual property partner to its London office, with the new arrival saying that the global footprint of the U.S. outfit led him to take the position.
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October 21, 2024
Covington Hires ICO's General Counsel For London Office
Covington & Burling LLP has recruited the head of the legal service at the Information Commissioner's Office to join its competition team in London amid growing challenges for clients that operate in digital markets.
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October 14, 2024
Judge Sanctioned For Unconscious Antisemitic Bias
A judge has been issued with formal advice for misconduct after the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said it found that she displayed "an unconscious bias of an antisemitic nature."
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October 14, 2024
Law Firm Hit With ICO Reprimand For Client Data Leak
An English law firm has been reprimanded for not implementing adequate cybersecurity measures after a hacker gained access to sensitive client information and released it on the dark web, the data regulator has said.
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October 14, 2024
Fenchurch Law Hires Ex-Kennedys Chief For Denmark Launch
Fenchurch Law said Monday that it has hired a former co-managing partner at Kennedys and another senior lawyer to open its Denmark office — its second outside the U.K. — as it seeks to expand its international presence.
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October 21, 2024
Mayer Brown Taps Life Insurance Expert From Skadden
Mayer Brown LLP has hired an insurance expert as a partner at its London practice as the U.S.-based firm looks to boost its U.K. presence in the complex life insurance sector.
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October 14, 2024
Quinn Emanuel Must ID Source Of Forged Deripaska Report
Quinn Emanuel must reveal the source of the middleman that provided it with a forged report suggesting that Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska misled arbitrators during a dispute with a former business partner, a judge ruled on Monday.
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October 11, 2024
Robertson Pugh Boosts Sanctions Offering With MoFo Hire
Boutique law firm Robertson Pugh Associates LLP has hired a sanctions expert as a consultant, a move that comes at a time of intense demand to manage the risks of global conflicts, the former Morrison Foerster LLP partner told Law360.
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October 11, 2024
2 Finance Partners Added To Hunton's London Office
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has welcomed two new lawyers, Alan Cunningham and Richard Skipper, as finance partners in its London office.
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October 11, 2024
Bird & Bird Adds DLA Piper Legal Director To London Office
Bird & Bird LLP has added a former DLA Piper legal director as a partner to its London tax team.
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October 11, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen billionaire Lakshmi Mittal sue steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta in a long-running clash to claw back €140 million ($153 million) of debt, a high-profile AI researcher take action against the Intellectual Property Office to register his software as a listed patent inventor and troubled housing trust Home Reit face a claim by a real estate developer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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October 11, 2024
Take Urgent Action Over Crown Court Delays, UK Gov't Told
The U.K. government must act urgently to fix Crown Court backlogs and delays that are worsening trauma for victims of crime, the victims' commissioner has stressed in a new report.
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October 18, 2024
O'Melveny Hires Expert PE Duo From Ashurst
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has added two private equity experts from Ashurst LLP to its London office as partners in the firm's private equity group, strengthening its cross-border capabilities.
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October 11, 2024
Day 1 Unfair Dismissal Right Risks Diversity And Justice Aims
Abolishing the two-year qualifying period to bring an unfair dismissal claim will trigger an impossible deluge of tribunal cases and a more cautious approach to recruitment that risks turning back the clock on diversity in the workforce, lawyers warned about the headline proposal in the Employment Rights Bill.
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October 11, 2024
Paul Weiss Adds Kirkland Partner To Head Regulatory Group
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Friday it has hired a financial regulatory partner to head its European financial services regulation group, as it continues to expand in London with another recruit from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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October 11, 2024
Meet The GC Keeping Brighton & Hove Albion Legally Onside
As money floods into football and the sport's tapestry of regulations grows increasingly complex, lawyers like Lloyd Thomas, the GC at Brighton and Hove Albion, have a crucial part to play at a modern club. Here, he explains the rising legal stakes in football, the reality of life in a transfer window and what to expect from an independent football regulator.
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October 10, 2024
Legal Aid Provider Numbers Plummet Over Last 5 Years
Data from the Legal Aid Agency shows that the number of firms carrying out publicly funded work has fallen by nearly a fifth over the past five years, prompting the Law Society to warn Thursday that "time is running out" for the government to remediate a lack of funding for civil legal aid.
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October 17, 2024
Sidley Boosts Global Finance Practice With 5 Partner Hires
Sidley Austin LLP has bolstered its global finance practice with the hire of five new partners in the firm's London office from Latham & Watkins LLP.
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October 10, 2024
Cleary Is Latest Firm To Add Nonequity Partner Tier
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Thursday that it has added a nonequity partnership tier to better manage talent.
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October 10, 2024
Manchester United Names Ex-Addleshaw Atty As New GC
Manchester United PLC has chosen one of its existing lawyers as general counsel following the departure of Patrick Stewart earlier in 2024, the club confirmed to Law360 Thursday.
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October 10, 2024
Law Firm Owner Faces SDT Over Conflict Of Interest
A law firm owner has been referred to a disciplinary tribunal to face allegations that he created a risk of a conflict of interest by acting for one client in a financial dispute with another client of the firm, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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October 10, 2024
Watson Farley Boosts Top Trainee Salaries To £55K
Watson Farley & Williams LLP has boosted the salaries of trainee solicitors at its London office to as high as £55,000 ($71,900), becoming the latest law firm to make changes amid widespread increases across the legal market.
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October 09, 2024
US BigLaw Firms Accelerate Enviro Efforts, But Diversity Lags
Amid a number of recent legal challenges, large law firms in the U.S. have amped up many of their environmental, social and governance-related efforts, with particular growth in environmental sustainability action, while areas like diversity, equity and inclusion have been less successful, according to a report out Wednesday that examined firms' public-facing communications.