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January 08, 2025
RBG Fires Rosenblatt As Dispute Over Firm's Future Explodes
RBG Holdings PLC said Wednesday that it has parted ways with its namesake Ian Rosenblatt as his dispute with the legal group's leadership over its future boiled over amid allegations that he was setting up another firm under his name.
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January 07, 2025
Lawyer Denied Bonus On Career Break Wins Sex Bias Case
The Government Legal Department indirectly discriminated against a senior lawyer by skipping her £1,500 ($1,875) bonus because she was on a career break, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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January 07, 2025
Here's How Paul Hastings' Big Bet On Finance Paid Off
As the financial markets swayed between booms and busts in recent years following the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul Hastings LLP stayed the course, doubling down on its transactional practices by recruiting top-tier talent across key global markets like New York and London, and rising hubs such as Texas.
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January 07, 2025
Shein GC Avoids Labor Abuse Claims At UK Inquiry
Fashion retailer Shein was excoriated by MPs after it offered few answers to accusations of labor abuses in its supply chains at a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday.
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January 07, 2025
Gibson Dunn Appoints New Leaders Of London Office
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has had a change of leadership in London, with the appointment of resolution expert Osma Hudda and real estate finance lawyer Rob Carr as the new partners in charge of its base in the City.
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January 07, 2025
Shook Hardy & Bacon Winds Down London Office
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP is closing its three-lawyer London office after nearly four decades in the British capital, the firm said Tuesday, as two of the partners moved to CMS.
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January 07, 2025
Troutman Pepper Locke Leaders Define A Successful Merger
What makes for a successful law firm merger? It's more than headcount and profits, according to two leaders of the newly minted Troutman Pepper Locke LLP law firm, which was formed Jan. 2 by the combination of major U.S.-based law firms Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord.
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January 07, 2025
Latham Loses Antitrust Pro To Sidley In Latest Exit
Sidley Austin LLP said Tuesday that it has hired an antitrust partner from Latham & Watkins LLP to its Brussels office — the latest lawyer to jump ship from Latham to its U.S. rival.
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January 07, 2025
NI Law Society Partners With Broker Gallagher On Cyber Risk
Insurance broker Gallagher said it will provide risk management on cyber threats to hundreds of legal practices in Northern Ireland as a result of a tie-up with the region's professional standards body.
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January 07, 2025
Solicitor Told 'Client' To Make False Asylum Claim, SRA Says
A lawyer advised someone he believed to be a client to provide a fake story to support a British asylum claim, the Solicitors Regulation Authority alleged at a disciplinary tribunal in London on Tuesday.
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January 07, 2025
Law Firm Fined £28K For Not Complying With AML Laws
An English law firm has been fined for failing to implement adequate measures to protect it from being exposed to money laundering and terrorist financing, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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January 07, 2025
Northern Ireland's Barristers Strike In Legal Aid Protest
Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have launched a four-week industrial action, withdrawing from all legally aided crown court cases in protest at "the relentless expectation" that they should do more for less pay, according to the country's Criminal Bar Association.
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January 06, 2025
Longtime Cravath Presiding Partner Sam Butler Dies At 94
Sam Butler, former presiding partner of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP during the 1980s and 1990s, died on Saturday at 94.
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January 06, 2025
Hogan Lovells Boosts 28 Partners, 47 Counsel In 3 Continents
Hogan Lovells announced a slightly smaller promotion class than last year's on Monday, elevating 28 attorneys to partner and 47 to counsel across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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January 06, 2025
Cleary Adds Antitrust Attys From A&O Shearman, TikTok
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Monday that it is adding to its global antitrust team by hiring a partner in New York and a counsel in Brussels who are experts in transactional and behavioral work.
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January 06, 2025
Ex-Ashfords Paralegal Misled Firm Over Client Emails
A former paralegal at Ashfords LLP has been barred from the profession after she lied to the firm to conceal her failure to remind a client to renew a trademark, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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January 06, 2025
Pallas Partners Promotes 2 Lawyers In London To Partnership
Pallas Partners LLP said Monday it has promoted two lawyers in its office in London to its partnership, adding to the ranks of the senior lawyers who will take the business forward in the coming years.
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January 06, 2025
New Football Regulator Taps CMA Director As Legal Chief
The government's Independent Football Regulator has appointed a director with the Competition and Markets Authority as its new legal chief — and the fledgling watchdog wants three more lawyers to join him.
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January 06, 2025
Zurich Denies Insurer's Bid For £580K Slice Of Settlement
Zurich's U.K. entity has denied that a law firm it insured shut out a bankrupt insurance company from recovering over £580,000 ($730,000) as part of negligence claim that was settled without the bankrupt insurer's consent.
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January 13, 2025
3rd BCLP Partner Joins Shoosmiths In 6 Months
Shoosmiths LLP has hired a dealmaker to join its corporate finance department in London from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP — the third senior lawyer to switch between the firms in just six months.
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January 13, 2025
Morgan Lewis Hires IP Pro From Baker McKenzie In Munich
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP said Monday it has recruited a senior patent litigator from Baker McKenzie in Germany to enhance its intellectual property offering to clients, particularly in disputes involving technology and life sciences.
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January 03, 2025
Dechert, Garrigues Attys Move On To Independent Arbitration
Dechert's former head of international arbitration and a longtime Garrigues arbitrator have both announced their departure from their law firms as they plan to establish practices as independent arbitrators in the new year.
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January 03, 2025
Shein GC Gets Uyghur Labor Abuse Dossier Amid UK Inquiry
A Uyghur rights group said Friday that it had handed Shein's general counsel a dossier containing evidence of possible forced labor in the Chinese clothing seller's supply chain days before the lawyer faces questions from a U.K. parliamentary committee.
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January 10, 2025
Addleshaw Goddard Adding 2 Employment Pros In Germany
Addleshaw Goddard LLP has snapped up two employment law specialists from German boutique firm Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law as it continues to build its services in the German legal market following office openings in recent years.
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January 03, 2025
Clyde & Co. Merges With Dallas Insurance Boutique
Clyde & Co. LLP has announced a merger with Dallas boutique Tillman Batchelor LLP, expanding the global law firm's insurance capabilities in Texas amid its ongoing growth in North America.