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Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May to roll out Harvey AI platform firmwide
Harvey says the platform will support Slaughters’ lawyers in areas including M&A, regulatory research and document analysis
Clifford Chance promotes 28 to partner in US-heavy round
Latest round includes six US promotions, up from one in previous two rounds
Bird & Bird promotes 19 to partner in latest promotions round
Women make up 26% of this year’s cohort, with the employment and IP practices seeing the most promotions
Akin re-hires restructuring partner trio from Weil in London
Team is led by Neil Devaney, who returns as head of London financial restructuring
Winners announced at UK Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2026
Former Law Society of England and Wales president Lubna Shuja among those honoured
Taylor Wessing adds product liability specialist from Cooley in London
Jamie Humphreys will join as a partner in the firm’s disputes team
‘Formalistic and outmoded’: Civil Justice Council calls for reform of solicitors’ costs regime
CJC advocates updating the existing solicitor-client costs system and replacing it with out-of-court settlements
London boutique Three Points Law hires AI legaltech co-founder and former KPMG Law partner
Usman Wahid, who co-founded AI legal platform VennSpace, will focus on fintech deals
London set 7 King’s Bench Walk lures ex-Harneys partner out of retirement
Peter Ferrer, who was based in Harneys’ British Virgin Islands office, returns to London as part of the move
London law firm private equity partner hires almost double in 2025 – report
Legal headhunters Macrae says activity reflects shift in how firms are looking to build sponsor-facing teams
Browne Jacobson enters Northern Ireland through merger with 30-lawyer Davidson McDonnell
Tie-up brings strength in corporate M&A, commercial property, dispute resolution and finance to UK firm
Baroness Harman to speak at conference on impact of employment reforms on legal sector
Change Management Present and Future conference to explore Employment Rights Act 2025’s safeguards against workplace harassment
Nine make the grade in Simmons’ latest partner promotions round
Women-majority round dominated by financial markets and real estate practice
Freshfields seeks to ‘co-innovate at pace’ with Anthropic partnership
Deal with Anthropic follows news that more than 5,000 Freshfields employees are using AI tools built with Google technology
Solicitors Regulation Authority announces leadership overhaul amid PM Law collapse scrutiny
Regulator to expand its executive team while making permanent City legal hire
Monckton Chambers adds honorary silk from Italian firm LMS in London
Arbitration and competition lawyer and leading academic Renato Nazzini KC (Hon) will join the set this month
Addleshaw Goddard makes up 17 partners
Cohort spans the UK, Europe and the Middle East, including two in newly added Warsaw office
Law Commission considers expansion of class action regime in England and Wales to consumer claims
Project backed by Department for Business and Trade could lead to new ‘consumer class actions regime’
Earth Day 2026: IBA legal guide series highlights commercial impact of nature-related risks
IBA’s Nature-Intelligent Legal Services series aims to help lawyers ‘move beyond carbon-only thinking’
Osborne Clarke announces leaner UK partner promotions round
Six-strong round includes promotions in disputes, corporate and banking and finance teams