568 ABA Journal United Kingdom articles.
Despite recently posting its second highest profit per equity partner, London law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner has frozen pay and bonuses for its UK-based staff until November, according to
The United Kingdom may have voted to leave the European Union, but that has not stopped Haynes and Boone from choosing to come to London.
In a Thursday press…
Jul 1, 2016 9:30 AM CDT The uncertainty surrounding life and laws in the United Kingdom following the vote to leave the European Union has left law firms scrambling, and at the moment there are more…
Jun 27, 2016 2:35 PM CDT Law firms are sending out client advisories, planning client briefings and running 24-hour hotlines to answer clients’ questions after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Britain’s exit isn’t expected…
Jun 24, 2016 9:40 AM CDT A strategic alliance announced Wednesday by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and the United Kingdom-based Bond Dickinson is intended to help each of the well-known firms expand its…
Jun 15, 2016 1:15 PM CDT A British law firm suffered a sudden loss of business over the last few days, after a series of tweets by a founding partner who serves as its managing director…
Jun 15, 2016 10:55 AM CDT Megafirm Norton Rose Fulbright announced Thursday that it has hired Sidley Austin’s entire public finance practice group. The group includes six partners, and seven of the lawyers will establish a…
Jun 3, 2016 9:47 AM CDT A London-based international law firm plans to open its sixth U.S. office by acquiring an 18-attorney Miami, Florida, corporate litigation boutique. Clyde & Co. announced the deal with A British businessman who is also a law student got some real-world legal experience over the last few years when the title of his self-help book, Business Zero to Superhero,…
May 25, 2016 11:20 AM CDTUK law firms scramble to provide answers for Brexit questions
Law firms run 24-hour hotlines for client questions after Britain votes to leave European Union
Womble Carlyle announces strategic alliance with UK firm
Clients drop firm after lawyer uses Twitter to celebrate ‘win’ against parents of disabled children
Norton Rose Fulbright raids Sidley for 17-lawyer practice group and opens new San Francisco office
Clyde & Co. to acquire 18-lawyer Miami firm, seeks to be top US insurance coverage shop
Law student prevails against Marvel and DC Comics over use of word ‘superhero’ in book title
Solving Mysteries: Lawyers play detective in legal writing
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. begins his dissenting opinion from a denial of cert in Pennsylvania v. Dunlap this way:
May 1, 2016 2:00 AM CDT
The first law firm to go public may be on the verge of collapse after reporting a loss of nearly $700 million during the second half of 2015.
On Monday,…
Feb 29, 2016 12:05 PM CST
Two brothers initially got no jail time in a British drug case, because the judge suspended their two-year sentences when their lawyers said they were remorseful about the crime.
But…
Feb 26, 2016 10:10 AM CST
With Monday’s announcement of the completed merger of equivalent Canadian and United Kingdom law firms, the nearly 1,400-attorney combination is already looking for more merger prospects.
“It’s an exciting time…
Feb 22, 2016 10:10 AM CST
If the KitKat name wasn’t printed on the four connected “fingers” of a well-known candy bar, would customers know it was a KitKat without seeing the wrapper?
The answer to…
Jan 21, 2016 11:45 AM CST
A 10-year-old British schoolboy meant to say in an English class exercise that he lived in a “terraced” house.
But he misspelled the word as “terrorist,” and teachers, not realizing…
Jan 20, 2016 12:00 PM CST
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