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January 02, 2025
England's 1st Barrister-Partner Loses Harassment Claim Bid
A self-employed barrister has been told she cannot sue the Bar Standards Board for racial harassment after she learned about "improper and damaging communication" between the regulator and her neighbors that sparked a 17-year dispute.
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January 02, 2025
Legal Expenses Insurer Restructures After DAS Acquisition
British insurer ARAG PLC said Thursday it has now fully integrated DAS UK, the legal protection insurer that it bought a year ago amid a broader restructuring of the company's operations.
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January 02, 2025
Ex-Freshfields Senior Partner Knighted In New Year Honors
A former senior partner from Freshfields, Edward Braham, has been awarded a knighthood, joining lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters who also feature in the 2025 New Year's honors list, the government has said.
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January 02, 2025
Elite Law Denies Fault In Lender's £1.9M Loan Fraud Case
An English firm of solicitors has denied a claim that it cost a lender £1.9 million ($2.4 million) by failing to spot that the borrower of a property loan was allegedly a fraudster, telling a London court that it was not obliged to verify his identity.
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January 01, 2025
Legal Industry Prepares For Widespread Mergers In 2025
A wave of mergers is expected to be the defining issue in the legal industry in 2025 as law firms in the U.K. and U.S. come together — and experts predict that tie-ups will not be limited to BigLaw but will happen across the sector.
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January 01, 2025
A Year Of Reckoning Beckons For Professional Regulation
Regulation of the legal sector is likely to be in for a reckoning in 2025 after scandals at the Post Office and Axiom Ince shook the market in 2024, experts say.
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December 23, 2024
Walker Morris' First Information Chief Talks AI, Cloud Strategy
In November, Walker Morris LLP hired its first chief information officer, Julia Elliott. Here, Elliott discusses how the legal field compares to other industries, the firm’s artificial intelligence projects, and her first six-month road map at Walker Morris.
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December 23, 2024
Rosenblatt Founder Calls For Removal Of Executives
RBG Holdings PLC said on Monday that Ian Rosenblatt, the company's largest shareholder, has called for its current chief executive and two other directors to be removed amid continuing challenges with turning around the company's fortunes.
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December 20, 2024
Law Firm Accuses Employee Of Exaggerating Disability Claim
Law firm Cartwright Cunningham Haselgrove & Co. accused a former employee of being untruthful in her disability discrimination claim on Friday, with lawyers for the firm alleging she had "exaggerated" her injuries from a car crash.
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December 20, 2024
Gov't Reveals Multimillion-Pound Boost In Legal Aid Funding
The U.K. government has announced an additional £92 million ($115 million) in annual funding for legal aid, in a bid to address the ongoing crisis in the criminal justice system.
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December 20, 2024
Linklaters Sells Process Agency Biz To UK Investment Trust
A U.K.-based investment trust has bought the process agency business of Linklaters LLP, as the Magic Circle firm focuses on its strategic goals, the companies said Friday.
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December 20, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the University of Southampton sue a drone-maker over the rights to an uncrewed aircraft patent, Importers Service Corp. and its subsidiary ISC Europe take action against a former director who allegedly owes the company over £1.1 million ($1.4 million), and DAC Beachcroft face a fraud claim by a "prolific litigant."
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December 20, 2024
SRA Report Reveals Sharp Increase In Comp Fund Payouts
The Solicitors Regulation Authority paid out £41 million ($52 million) from its compensation fund for the period November 2022 to October 2023 — more than two and a half times the average of the previous six years, according to reports published by the watchdog on Friday.
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December 20, 2024
Barrister Loses Appeal Over 6-Month Suspension
A London judge rejected a bid Friday by a barrister to overturn his six-month suspension for failing to comply with a court order to pay £64,000 ($80,593), ruling that the sanction was "neither wrong nor clearly inappropriate."
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December 20, 2024
Law Firm Awarded £4.2M For Co.'s Mishandled PPI Claims
A London court awarded a specialist litigation law firm almost £4.2 million ($5.3 million) on Friday for the costs of a professional services company's botched handling of payment protection insurance claims.
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December 20, 2024
Pinsent Masons Hires Brabners' Head Of Pensions
Pinsent Masons LLP has recruited the head of Brabners' pensions team to join its growing pensions practice in Manchester, as the firm looks to respond to the continued consolidation of the pensions market.
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December 20, 2024
5 Questions For 4 Brick Court's Bibi Badejo
Bibi Badejo, a family law barrister at 4 Brick Court Chambers in London, told Law360 that her journey into becoming an advocacy coach began when she found during the first few years of her legal career that she was not performing as well as she wanted to in court.
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December 20, 2024
Kramer Levin's Paris Office Moves To Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP is set to take on the entire Paris team from Kramer Levin at the start of the new year as it looks for a new home and prepares for its pending merger with HSF.
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December 20, 2024
Osborne Clarke Pro Fined £50K Over Zahawi Libel Letter
A tribunal fined an Osborne Clarke LLP partner who represented Nadhim Zahawi £50,000 ($62,700) on Friday for trying to stop a blogger revealing that the former chancellor was contemplating libel action over allegations of dishonesty in his tax affairs.
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December 20, 2024
Ex-Axiom Ince Execs Hit With Fraud Charges Over Collapse
The Serious Fraud Office charged five former Axiom Ince leaders with fraud on Friday over the collapse of the law firm with a £65 million ($81 million) hole in its client accounts.
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December 19, 2024
Gateley Denies Blocking Ex-CEO From Meat Biz Acquisition
Gateley PLC has denied deliberately concealing the fact that its client, a former chief executive officer for a meat supplier, would be excluded from reacquiring his company, and said the ex-CEO knew he'd have no stake in the purchase.
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December 19, 2024
Denmark Says $500M Recovered In Dividend Tax Fraud Suits
Denmark's tax administration has recovered a total of 3.6 billion Danish kroner ($500 million) in money lost to suspected dividend tax refund fraud after entering settlements of civil cases in several countries in 2024, Denmark's tax minister announced.
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December 19, 2024
EU Court Upholds Ban On Financial Investors In Law Firms
Europe's high court said in a landmark decision Thursday that member states can prohibit "purely financial investors" from holding stakes in law firms without violating the bloc's free market laws.
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December 19, 2024
AI Ethics Expert, 2 Others To Join Bar Standards Board
The Bar Standards Board said Thursday that it has appointed three new members, including an expert in the ethical adoption of artificial intelligence.
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December 19, 2024
The Legal Sector In 2024 — Mergers, Huge Salaries, SRA Woes
The legal sector can look back at 2024 as one of its busiest ever, one transatlantic merger completed, salaries for newly qualified lawyers hitting record highs, and the first enforcement action against the solicitors' watchdog over the Axiom Ince debacle.