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  • February 06, 2025

    Litera Buys Microsoft Ind. Software Vendor Peppermint

    With a focus on helping law firms get more out of their Microsoft applications, legal technology giant Litera acquired Peppermint Technology, a Microsoft independent software vendor, on Thursday.

  • February 06, 2025

    White & Case's PEP Earnings Hit Record $4M In 2024

    White & Case posted the strongest profits per equity partner in its history on Thursday, with top partners each taking home $4 million in 2024 and revenue in London growing twice as fast as the global business.

  • February 05, 2025

    UK Gov't Data Shows Rise In Legal Sector Data Breaches

    Data breaches in the U.K. legal sector have increased by more than a third, impacting 7.9 million individuals in the 12 months that ended July 1, 2024, according to an analysis released Wednesday of U.K. Information Commissioner's Office data by document and email management company NetDocuments.

  • February 12, 2025

    Fieldfisher Hires Corporate Pro From Withers

    Fieldfisher LLP has recruited a corporate lawyer from Withers LLP to enhance its capabilities in handling complex transactions for clients in the U.K. and internationally.

  • February 05, 2025

    Large Orgs Facing 20 Employment Tribunal Claims Per Year

    Large businesses are seeing around 20 Employment Tribunal claims per year with unfair dismissal and disability discrimination cases at the forefront, a law firm's new study has suggested.

  • February 05, 2025

    Guardian Beats Actor's Claim Reporters Faked Libel Evidence

    Actor Noel Clarke has lost his bid to strike out The Guardian newspaper's public interest defense against his libel claim over articles about sexual misconduct allegations against him, as a London court ruled on Wednesday that his lawyers had wrongly accused journalists of fabricating evidence.

  • February 05, 2025

    Law Society Launches Scholarship Program For 2025

    The Law Society said Wednesday that it is now accepting applications for a long-running scholarship program that it runs each year to help aspiring solicitors from lower socioeconomic backgrounds overcome barriers to entering the profession.

  • February 05, 2025

    Mishcon Consults On Redundancies Among Business Staff

    Mishcon de Reya said Wednesday that it has begun a redundancy consultation among its business staff as the firm plans to outsource part of its operations to a new center in India.

  • February 05, 2025

    HSF Posts $6.3M US Loss As Kramer Levin Merger Looms

    The U.S. operations of Herbert Smith Freehills made a loss of more than $6 million in the last financial year, accounts have revealed, as the firm's partners are set to cast their vote on a transatlantic merger with Kramer Levin this month.

  • February 04, 2025

    TLT To Take On 29 Lawyers From Broadfield In 2025

    TLT LLP on Tuesday said it will add 29 lawyers from Broadfield UK this year to bolster its future energy, infrastructure and planning strengths, creating what it called one of the largest practices of its kind in Britain.

  • February 04, 2025

    Black Candidates Underperform On Bar Training Course

    The Bar Standards Board has said that Black students continue to underperform in Bar exams compared to other groups, while the profession still favors Oxbridge graduates.

  • February 04, 2025

    5 More Law Firms Fined For Noncompliance With AML Rules

    The solicitors' watchdog has fined five more law firms for failing to have in place measures that fully complied with anti-money laundering laws, with one being handed a £25,000 ($31,000) penalty.

  • February 04, 2025

    Lawfront Firms Continue Expansion With UK Purchase

    Nelsons LLP said on Tuesday that it has acquired a law firm in the West Midlands, the third acquisition for the English regional firm since it joined Lawfront, a private equity-backed legal consolidator.

  • February 03, 2025

    White & Case Gets Tax Pro From Latham

    White & Case LLP has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP senior associate to serve as a partner in its London office, the firm announced.

  • February 03, 2025

    Pillsbury Hires Ex-McDermott London Office Chief

    The former managing partner of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's office in London is joining Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to help boost the firm's corporate offering to clients in areas including life sciences and healthcare.

  • February 03, 2025

    Gov't Unveils £12.5M Extra Funding For Family Courts

    A government scheme that has been trialed in an attempt to cut backlogs at family courts and shield children and other vulnerable people from the trauma of prolonged courtroom battles is being expanded, the Ministry of Justice said on Monday.

  • February 03, 2025

    Freshfields' Revenue Hits Record-Breaking £2.1B

    Revenue at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP hit a record-breaking £2.12 billion ($2.6 billion) in the financial year ending in April — but profits before partner distributions fell by 8.3%.

  • February 03, 2025

    Lawfront To Pass £100M After Buying Fifth UK Regional Hub

    Lawfront said Monday that it has acquired a law firm in southeast England in a deal that would take the legal services group's annual revenue past the £100 million ($124 million) mark.

  • January 31, 2025

    Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe

    Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.

  • January 31, 2025

    Akin Hires Tax Pro From Cooley In London

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP announced Friday that a partner at Cooley LLP will join as a tax partner in Akin's London office later in 2025. 

  • January 31, 2025

    The Revolving Door: Memery Crystal Loses Real Estate Team

    Over the past week, Squire Patton Boggs recruited two specialists in financial services from Stephenson Harwood, Hogan Lovells hired a HSBC lawyer to head its financial crime consulting unit, and Lawrence Stephens snapped up a real estate team from Memery Crystal amid a mass partner walkout.

  • January 31, 2025

    Ex-IP Co. Director Says Lawyer, Founders Hid $40M Takeover

    A former director of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company has claimed in court filings that two fellow directors, aided by an ex-Russells Solicitors partner, concealed plans for a $40 million takeover to try to convince him to sell his shares on the cheap.

  • January 31, 2025

    Data Reveals More To Do On Diversity Among Barristers

    Diversity levels among barristers require further progress to improve representation of women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds at silk level, the Bar Standards Board reported Friday.

  • January 31, 2025

    Ex-BigLaw Atty Can't Escape OneCoin Conviction At 2nd Circ.

    The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a former Locke Lord LLP partner's conviction and 10-year sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the multibillion-dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme, rejecting the attorney's contention that a sole cooperating government witness' perjury and other purported errors warranted reversing his punishment.

  • January 31, 2025

    Seasoned Patterson Belknap Trial Team Joins Linklaters In NY

    Linklaters LLP announced Friday it has brought aboard a high-profile team of litigation partners from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, including one who is the current president of the New York City Bar Association and a lawyer former President Joe Biden had nominated to the Third Circuit.

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