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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.
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October 09, 2024
Insurance Firm Keoghs Expands With Ireland Solicitors Deal
Insurance law firm Keoghs LLP said Wednesday it has expanded into Ireland with the acquisition of Dublin-based O'Brien Lynam Solicitors, in a deal steered by A&L Goodbody LLP and Addleshaw Goddard (Ireland) LLP.
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October 09, 2024
Litigation Funder Sues After-The-Event Insurer For £61M
A legal loans company has sued an insurer for around £61.4 million ($80.3 million) over its alleged failure to pay out under a litigation funding arrangement.
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October 09, 2024
Richard Atkinson Appointed New Law Society President
The Law Society said Wednesday that it has appointed criminal law expert Richard Atkinson as its 180th president as the independent professional body for solicitors in England and Wales approaches its bicentenary.
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October 09, 2024
Liverpool Uni Partners With Firms For Working In Law Course
The University of Liverpool has joined forces with six law firms to launch a new course to help students gain legal work experience and to boost social mobility in the profession.
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October 09, 2024
SRA Shuts Down Virtual Law Firm Lawbriefs
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has shut down an online law firm after the company behind the legal venture ran into financial difficulties and called in administrators.
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October 09, 2024
Law Firms Sued For Botched Advice In £5M Ponzi Scheme
Property investors have claimed two law firms failed to warn them of the dangers of sinking their savings into a building project that turned out to be an alleged £5.4 million ($7 million) Ponzi scheme.
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October 09, 2024
Davis Polk Raises Trainee Salaries To New High Of £70K
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has increased the base salaries of trainee solicitors in its London office to as much as £70,000 ($91,500), the highest reported trainee salary so far as the battle to retain talent in the English capital takes another twist.