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Covers UK legal business: firms, appointments, deals and regulation
The Law News team covers the business of law in the UK: partner hires and promotions, law firm results and acquisitions, the deals firms advise on, and guidance from regulators and professional bodies such as the Law Society and the FCA. It has reported on the profession since 2022.
Stories start from the primary source, whether a firm announcement, published accounts, a regulator's statement or a survey, and say what has changed and for whom. Recent coverage includes Fletchers Solicitors' 47% rise in revenue to £113.3m, Ison Harrison's acquisition of Dootsons, Lodders' hire of family partner Aasha Choudhary, and the Law Society's practice note on AI and client confidentiality.
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John Davies has defended clients across magistrates' courts, crown courts and appeal chambers for more than two decades. Now he's bringing that experience to Olliers Solicitors,…
Each skilled worker who arrives in Britain on a work visa delivers £689,000 to the Treasury over their lifetime. Yet the Government won't make that case…
Jesse Hayes took the chair at West Country Hawks Wheelchair Rugby Club in March. Four months later, he's secured the club's biggest sponsorship deal. The Plymouth-based…
Seeing a city determine the value of a human life is extremely unsettling. The literal, transactional, line-on-a-spreadsheet sense, not the philosophical one. That's exactly what Boston…
There's a certain kind of reckoning that comes slowly, almost courteously, dressed in legalese and court documents. In a Manhattan federal court document, attorneys for a…
There is a specific type of frustration that develops gradually; it's not the explosive kind, but rather the quiet, grinding kind that results from simultaneously feeling…
A certain type of annoyance gradually accumulates in a hospital hallway. Not the dramatic, boisterous kind you see on TV. quieter. The kind that resides in…
Last November, seven families with grief on their faces and a remarkably steady argument in their hands entered California courtrooms. Although the cases—four in Los Angeles…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida made an announcement on a Thursday afternoon in late May that likely caused some state agency directors to sit…
The picture of Daniel Hodges on January 6, 2021, has an almost cinematic quality. On camera, rioters were seen screaming and pressing against him from all…
There is a specific type of Washington story that begins with a lawsuit and concludes with an unexpected outcome. It looks like the Department of Justice's…
It began with a funeral. On April 18, a JetBlue passenger who was upset and grieving took to X to express his frustration over something that…
When a settlement notice arrives in their inbox, people usually squint at it. They then look it up on Google. Additionally, there has been a lot…
Just before eight in the morning, the addendum appeared on the Justice Department website as a single page hidden behind a much longer settlement that had…
The Breathitt County School District is located in a region of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky, where the local economy still depends on whatever industry it can…
When a judge begins questioning an attorney, a certain silence descends upon the courtroom. Something heavier, not the courteous silence of everyday activities. In rooms where…
There is a strange weight to watching two police officers walk into a federal courthouse to sue a sitting president. Not strange in the legal sense,…
A sizable story has been quietly making its way through a federal courtroom in California, somewhere between the usual onslaught of privacy headlines and the cacophony…
On a Wednesday, the filing quietly arrived in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. It is the type of document that attorneys quietly place on the docket.…
The fact that Amazon, the company that once secretly erased copies of 1984 from people's Kindles, is now facing the most costly consumer protection settlement in…
Before the U.S. marshals put Angela Lipps on a plane, she had never been on one. It's difficult to get rid of that detail that keeps…
The Sand Hill Road conference room wasn't meant to be this important. A few attorneys, a settlement amount rounded to the closest billion, and the kind…
While AI companies built empires on borrowed creativity and unproven defenses, the legal system appeared sluggish, almost drowsy, for years. That sleep is coming to an…
The email appears in your inbox with a subject line that most people automatically ignore. A class action, perhaps? There's something about Comcast. Something regarding money…
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