Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
By Marialuisa Taddia
Bird & Bird reported another year of slowing revenue growth and a second consecutive decline in profit per equity partner on Wednesday, saying that a challenging market shaped by geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility had weighed on its performance.
Read Full Article
By Christopher Crosby
A former M&A solicitor at Goodwin Procter was charged with insider dealing Wednesday over allegations that he tr...(read more)
By Ashish Sareen
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Wednesday that it has hired a team of lawyers from Withers to establish a per...(read more)
By Daniel Moritz-Rabson
After announcing their intent to merge last December, leaders from Winston & Strawn LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP embarked on a "listening road show" to help guide the visual identity of the new firm. They saw an opening to stand out from other major law firms.
By Adele Redmond
The Law Society has pushed back against the U.K. government's plan to ban nondisclosure agreements in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination, saying its proposals to make employers cover the cost of written legal advice for workers could undermine settlements and draw out disputes.
By Matt Perez
Haynes Boone announced Monday that it has launched a firmwide initiative treating generative artificial intelligence as a "core lawyering skill," with workshops at all attorney levels administered by legal learning platform Hotshot.
By Max Austin
A former Digby Brown legal claims adviser can continue pursuing a case over alleged cuts from his final paycheck, but a tribunal has thrown out his unfair dismissal claim, finding he filed it too late.
A law firm shut down for dishonesty has been ordered to pay almost £30,000 ($40,000) to a former employee after a tribunal ruled that she had been discriminated against and harassed.
Mitsubishi UFJ is redesigning how it trains junior lawyers and reshaping its legal team as artificial intelligence forces in-house counsel to prove they can add value beyond widely available tools such as ChatGPT, the bank's top lawyer for the EMEA region has said.
Knights Group Holdings PLC said Monday that its revenue has risen to more than £200 million ($267 million) and underlying pre-tax profit is up by around a fifth as it targets further opportunities to expand.
By Laura Stewart Liberty
Over the past week, DWF lost top talent to Hill Dickinson, RPC and Shoosmiths, an insurance M&A pro left DLA Piper for Sidley Austin, and Ashurst Perkins Coie hired a partner from Stephenson Harwood to head up its post-merger real estate litigation team. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires across the U.K.
The solicitors' watchdog has proposed two new rules that would require law firms to communicate more clearly and regularly with clients who make complaints as part of reforms to strengthen complaint-handling standards before matters are escalated to the Legal Ombudsman.
By Sophia Dourou
Axiom Ince has challenged the solicitors watchdog's defense to the law firm's negligence claim, arguing that the regulator missed a "crucial opportunity" to uncover the alleged £65 million ($87 million) misappropriation of client money by intervening too late.
By Hanna Vioque
Hill Dickinson defeated a doctor's bid for a wasted costs order Thursday, with an appellate tribunal ruling that the firm's failure to disclose a document didn't amount to negligence even if it might have been relevant to his whistleblowing case.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has said that it is planning to move to a larger office in Frankfurt as it seeks to expand in Germany.