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Cahill Gordon & Reindel is first US firm to gain ABS licence
The US firm has made its first UK hire and is going down the alternative business structure route.
Ex-Halliwells partners switch lawyers to TLT in liquidator dispute
A group of 26 former partners in failed UK firm Halliwells, being pursued for millions by the liquidator, has switched legal teams - leaving Irwin Mitchell for TLT, the high-tech, high volume firm that acts as an outsourcer for Freshfields.
RSA enters legal services market by ABS
RSA - the UK's 11th largest insurer and Europe's 38th biggest - is offering advocacy, litigation, probate and the administration of oaths through a legal services wing this month.
The law firm rainmaker has returned
Rainmakers are back in demand as law firms eye up the top billers at their competition.
Corporate counsel share £1 billion bonus pot
The good times are back for legal departments with in-house lawyers sharing increased bonus payments.
Locke Lord insurance pair open London office for Foran Glennon
Two insurance litigators have joined Foran Glennon, the fast-expanding US practice, to open its first base abroad.
Luxury houses feast on food
Food is the new luxury, if premier London store Harrods has got it right.
Luxury entrepreneurs meet law in London
CEOs and top luxury business executives are heading to London for the latest Luxury Law Summit, including the man behind the Vivienne Westwood empire, CEO Carlo D'Amario and Karen Walker, founder of the global sunglasses brand.
Freshfields moves fast on setting up Manchester service hub
Freshfields is understood to have agreed terms on a property in Manchester where it could temporarily house the first few hundred staff in its new processing hub before choosing a larger, long-term location.
Law student cleared of terror charge in semi-secret Old Bailey trial
A 27-year old law and accountancy university student has been cleared of charges that he was plotting an Islamic State-style bomb or gun attack - but now faces sentencing in relation to a previous conviction of possessing a bomb-making manual.
Secretary workforce in UK cut in half since 2001 as algorithms take over
Law offices are not the only locations where the numbers of secretaries have been reducing - as UK data shows that 47% of such jobs disappeared between 2001 and 2013.
Boom recorded in bogus firm reports from the UK
The leading UK legal regulator has recorded a 25 per cent rise in the number of occasions when individuals pretended to be running a law firm - taking the total to over 700 in 2014.
Jenner & Block opens first international office
A leading Chicago firm has arrived in London on the look-out for a big name to head up its practice.
UK tax professionals face criminal charges for assisting evasion
Professionals 'who enable tax evasion' will share the fate of some of their clients under UK proposals - being fined the same sum as their clients, being prosecuted for 'two new criminal offences' and being publicly named and shamed.
UK plans criminal penalties for tax advisers who assist evasion
Lawyers and other tax advisers who aid clients evade tax will the the subject of penalties under a new criminal offence which is to be announced by the UK government today.
Letters emerge in case of lawyer's defence by Sherlock Holmes creator
Letters were yesterday auctioned at Bonhams in London relating to the involvement of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in clearing the name of an Anglo-Indian solicitor who served three years in jail for horse mutilation.
Profits rate slumps in SME sector of UK law firms
UK law firms working with small and medium-sized organisations are optimistic about growing fees and cash flow - despite the fact that profits fell on average from 24 to 20 per cent of turnover during 2014.
Reed Smith life sciences duo joins Cooley London
Cooley has picked up two highly-regarded life sciences partners in its drive to expand its London practice.
Optimism ratings spike among Scottish lawyers
The proportion of Scottish lawyers who declare themselves optimistic about future prospects jumped from 53 to 61 per cent during the course of 2014, according to a survey from the Law Society of Scotland.
Grant Thornton on the end of £49m negligence claim
The UK arm of the world's sixth largest accountancy network is facing the claim for audit and advice work provided to Manchester Building Society between 2006 and 2013.