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TOP NEWS
By Christopher Crosby
A former solicitor and part-time judge appeared at a London criminal court on Thursday accused of defrauding more than a dozen clients by appropriating at least £137,000 ($186,000) in payments to himself.
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By Jamie Lennox
A London judge said Thursday that a trading services company must go to trial to prove that its former general counsel misused confidential information, citing a possibility that the business abused the lawyer-client relationship.
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By Jamie Lennox
A Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk will help to run the Competition Appeal Tribunal's new pro bono scheme, offering free legal help to litigants in person, legal charity Advocate said Thursday.
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By Ashish Sareen
DLA Piper said on Thursday that former British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined as a consultant to advise on geopolitical risk, adding to the roster of prominent political figures who have taken on roles at the firm.
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LEGAL TECH
By Ashish Sareen
Germany's law society has given its backing for lawyers to test out a new artificial intelligence platform by Bryter to help them overcome reservations about the innovation and speed up adoption rates in the profession, the legal tech provider and the trade body have said.
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By Ashish Sareen
Taylor Wessing said Thursday it will use Legora's artificial intelligence platform to improve its services as it became the latest in a series of large law firms to adopt the technology.
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By Matt Perez
Flank, which offers an artificial intelligence-driven legal assistant that automatically addresses requests from business users, announced Thursday the raising of $10 million to bolster its product development, expand its engineering and commercial teams, and advance its enterprise partnerships.
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LITIGATION
Brief
By William Janes
A former employee of Axiom Ince Ltd. has won a tribunal claim over the collapsed firm's failure to carry out a redundancy consultation before mass dismissals, with a judge granting her an unspecified monetary award.
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LEGISLATION & REGULATION
By Eddie Beaver
The U.K.'s sanctions regime is increasingly unfit for its purpose and must be reformed to tackle complex new forms of aggression such as cyberattacks and economic sabotage, the former lord chancellor urged Thursday.
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PEOPLE
By Tom Fish
Addleshaw Goddard LLP has added a heavyweight financial services disputes specialist to join its London office as a partner, as the firm moves to strengthen its practice in the Middle East.
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By Tracey Read
Linklaters LLP has a new chief communications and corporate affairs officer who previously worked for fashion and luxury goods company Burberry Group PLC in London as senior vice president of corporate relations and engagement.
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