Burges Salmon and Wexler roll out firm-wide legal AI partnership Legal Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon is rolling out a new company-wide partnership with legal tech startup Wexler to aid lawyers in litigation work, City PM can reveal. The Bristol-headquartered legal practice said Wexler is “a reliable option” and the firm-wide partnership follows “a successful integration” of adopting Wexler in the Dispute Resolution team in [...]
Birthday cookies and fine dining: Inside the law firm aiming for 5-Star service Legal There are not many office buildings in the City where, just five feet in the door, you receive a personalised greeting, but Addleshaw Goddard’s client services team would put The Ritz to shame. How to stand out in a crowded field? That is the question plaguing most law firms as they battle to grow in [...]
Court rejects Getty Images’ core claim in historic case against AI image generator Legal The High Court dismissed Getty Images’ core intellectual property claims against an AI image generator, but also granted it limited historic success in a landmark UK lawsuit. US giant Getty Images sued UK-based AI image generator Stability AI, alleging it unlawfully copied and processed millions of copyrighted images to train its image generation technology. The [...]
City law firm Addleshaw Goddard prioritises bonuses over junior pay raises August 28, 2025 City law firm Addleshaw Goddard has pulled out of the junior salary war by freezing pay and relocating those funds to its bonus pot. As reported by trade publication The Lawyer, Addleshaw Goddard has reallocated £1m that would have been spent on higher salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers, into its bonus pot, now worth [...]
Football to flowers: Law firms (finally) wake up to the importance of branding May 22, 2025 Branding is key; that is why some sponsorship deals can run into millions of pounds, and now some law firms are starting to realise its importance.
Pret A Manger hit with winding up petition by water company February 14, 2025 Pret A Manger has been hit with a winding up petition by a business water supplier over unpaid debts
Plans worth £200m revealed by Imperial College London and Bruntwood SciTech November 20, 2024 Imperial College London is to build a life sciences and deep tech development worth over £200m in the west of the capital after partnering with Bruntwood SciTech. The university has earmarked land at its White City Deep Tech Campus after signing an agreement with the joint venture between property group Bruntwood, Legal & General and [...]
KPMG and Natwest put the CBI back in business October 9, 2024 Companies renew their memberships to CBI offering hope for the firm's continuation
From London to Riyadh: Law firm Addleshaw Goddard’s global growth powers turnover boost August 14, 2024 Law firm Addleshaw Goddard reported double-digit growth for the financial year ending April 2024, driven by global growth and strategic investments
Awards announced for Square Mile’s green champions February 22, 2024 The Clean City Awards – organised by Canada Corporation – celebrated its 30th anniversary this year
