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December 02, 2024
Cooley Promotes 20 Lawyers To Partnership
Cooley LLP said on Monday that 20 lawyers from its offices in London and the U.S. have been elected to join its partnership as it freshens up its senior ranks.
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December 02, 2024
Former Hausfeld Pro Tapped For Solicitor General In UK Gov't
A former competition partner at Hausfeld LLP was tapped to become the next solicitor general in a surprise appointment late Monday as the outgoing senior law officer joins the U.K.'s justice ministry just months into the job.
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December 02, 2024
DLA Piper Taps Senior Finance Pro As New Leeds Chief
DLA Piper said on Monday that it has appointed a senior finance lawyer as the managing partner for its office in Leeds as it prepares to relocate to a new £85 million ($108 million) office development in the northern English city.
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December 02, 2024
UK Gov't Seeks To Challenge Afghani Judges' Asylum Win
The government asked the Court of Appeal Monday to review successful challenges from two Afghani judges wrongly refused relocation to Britain, arguing that the decisions will have wider implications for how officials handle asylum applications.
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December 02, 2024
FCA Urges Better AML Regulation Of Conveyancing
The supervisory body for watchdogs in the legal and accountancy sectors has told them that they must take further steps to prevent money laundering in the transfer of ownership in U.K. property transactions.
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November 29, 2024
Banned Lawyer Must Pay £68K For False Legal Aid Claims
A solicitor has been struck off the roll and ordered to pay more than £65,000 ($82,700) in legal costs for breaching Solicitors Regulation Authority accounting rules, failing to ensure funds were properly returned to clients and making legal aid claims for unrecorded hospital attendances.
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November 29, 2024
Pogust Goodhead To Enter Redundancy Consultation
Pogust Goodhead said Friday that it is planning to make redundancies in the business, despite securing a financing deal worth more than $500 million with a U.S. hedge fund in October 2023.
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November 29, 2024
Gibson Dunn's Asia Arbitration Head Joins One Essex Court
One Essex Court has brought on board the former head of arbitration for Asia at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in a move that extends the chambers' expertise in multiple jurisdictions across a spectrum of arbitration and commercial matters.
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November 29, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the National Crime Agency file a civil recovery order against a Chinese couple suspected of £29 billion ($37 billion) banking fraud, Norwich City FC of the second tier of English football hit two drinks companies with IP claims, and Owen Jones of the Guardian newspaper sue Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson for libel.
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November 29, 2024
Lawyers' Watchdog Reorganizing To Stress Consumer Focus
The Bar Standards Board has said it will implement a new organizational structure from Sunday as it moves ahead with a reform program to improve regulation focused on consumers, operational efficiency and accountability of employees.
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November 29, 2024
Gov't To Boost Civil Legal Aid For First Time Since 1996
The government said Friday that it will increase public funding for legal aid by £20 million ($25 million) a year to help individuals and families facing deportation and homelessness, the first increase in funding for civil legal aid since 1996.
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November 29, 2024
HSF Primed For US Expansion After Merger With Kramer Levin
Senior managers at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP are confident that partners will approve its tie-up with New York-based Kramer Levin to create a transatlantic firm valued at more than $2 billion, with a unified pay structure and deeper penetration into new practice areas.
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November 28, 2024
Lawyer Duped By Fraudulent Barrister Overturns Firm Closure
A court has ordered the solicitors' regulator to end the closure of a law firm, concluding that it was unlikely that its manager knew that a "fraudulent impostor" was forging property titles and making false mortgage applications.
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November 28, 2024
Master Of The Rolls Urges 'Rethink' Of Human Rights In AI Age
The rise of artificial intelligence means that lawmakers must "rethink" fundamental human rights for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the master of the rolls has said in a speech released Thursday.
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November 28, 2024
Former Clifford Chance MP Calls On SRA Leaders To Resign
A former senior lawyer at a Magic Circle firm said Thursday that the leadership of the Solicitors Regulation Authority should take responsibility for its handling of the Axiom Ince scandal that led to an investigation of the watchdog.
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November 28, 2024
Gov't Urged To Boost UK Mental Health Tribunal Funding
The Law Society has called on the government to bolster the Mental Health Bill with additional funding, clearer guidelines and stronger safeguards, saying that ministers must increase resources for tribunals so the system can deliver justice promptly.
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November 28, 2024
Solicitor Struck Off For Faking Signature Of Divorcing Client
A disciplinary tribunal has struck off an experienced solicitor after she admitted that she forged a client's signature on a document during divorce proceedings.
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November 28, 2024
Workers To Get 3 More Months To Bring Employment Claims
Workers would get six months rather than three to bring any employment tribunal claims under a proposed amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, a move that a lawyer has said "strikes the right balance."
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November 28, 2024
SFO General Counsel Sara Lawson To Step Down Early 2025
The Serious Fraud Office said on Thursday that its general counsel, Sara Lawson KC, is stepping down at the end of January after almost six years as the agency's most senior lawyer.
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November 28, 2024
UK Gov't Ponders Costs Protection For Discrimination Claims
The Ministry of Justice has begun consulting on whether to extend costs protection to discrimination claims brought in civil courts as it seeks to establish whether adverse costs present an obstacle to potential claimants.
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November 27, 2024
Stephenson Harwood Says Trade Export Co. Owes $100K In Fees
U.K.-based Stephenson Harwood LLP has sued an Alabama trade export company that specializes in Latin America, saying it owes more than $100,000 in legal fees after the law firm pursued arbitration on the company's behalf against London-based accountancy firm Parker Lloyd Ltd.
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November 27, 2024
LSB Needs Bigger Budget After Axiom Ince Probe Overspend
The body that oversees the regulation of lawyers plans to increase its next annual budget by 11% as it admitted it had overspent in the current financial year because of higher-than-expected costs from its review of Axiom Ince.
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November 27, 2024
Charles Russell Speechlys Opens New Office In Milan
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP has opened a new office in Milan whose practice includes tax restructuring in Italy and the global mobility of high-net-worth individuals.
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November 27, 2024
HSF To Open Luxembourg Office Ahead Of Merger
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP will open an office in Luxembourg in 2025, bringing in three lawyers from A&O Shearman and Maples & Calder, ahead of its proposed merger with U.S. firm Kramer Levin later in the same year.
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November 27, 2024
Training Lawyers To Be 'More Human' Will Counter Rise Of AI
Douglas Armstrong, managing partner at Dickson Minto LLP, believes that keeping a firm small and training lawyers to be "more human" are the best defenses against the rise of artificial intelligence.