Troutman Pepper’s merger with Locke Lord provides a blueprint for successful M&A integration, especially in the professional services sector. Starting early, building strong governance, encouraging ownership, and communicating transparently enabled the teams to work successfully toward seamless integration from Day One. When Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord agreed to combine, creating a 1,600-lawyer, 30+ office […]

How Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers rebuilt its operations to grow faster, bill smarter, and keep client care at the centre of everything Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers (LGFL) was never meant to be a conventional firm. When Rita Gupta and her co-founder Anne Leiper set it up in 2008, they wanted autonomy and faster decision-making, free […]

When Rubrik’s salesforce doubled, so did the flood of legal questions. To keep pace, the legal team partnered with Harbor Labs to build an AI-driven solution that delivers fast answers at scale. As cybersecurity company Rubrik’s sales force practically doubled, so did the volume of legal questions via email regarding contract reviews, policy clarifications, and general procedures. Rather […]

Hugh James is a Top 100 UK law firm, employing more than 750 staff from its headquarters in Cardiff and in offices located in London, Manchester, Plymouth and Southampton. The firm provides a full range of legal services across a variety of industries, including banking and finance, property and construction, technology, media and telecommunications, energy […]

Intapp, the governed AI platform for professional firms in highly regulated industries, announces that Ropes and Gray LLP, a preeminent global law firm, has selected Intapp DealCloud to power growth and relationship management and Celeste to bring agentic AI across the firm — connecting intelligence across its growth, compliance, and profitability workflows. Ropes and Gray’s investment […]

For Burges Salmon, four factors ultimately set Harvey apart from other legal AI platforms. For Burges Salmon’s leadership team, generative AI represented a major inflection point for the profession. “Over the course of my career we’ve seen computers, the internet, and mobile phones transform the way lawyers work,” says Managing Partner Roger Bull. “But generative […]

The challenge Talbots Law is a modern, growing UK law firm with a strong reputation for delivering high- quality legal services across the West Midlands. As the firm expanded through strategic mergers and acquisitions, its operational infrastructure needed to evolve to support that growth. Now with 600+ users, one area that required attention was the management of […]

In 2021, solicitor Aled Evans and partner and office manager Lara Evans decided to go it alone and set up Ubique Legal. Over the past couple of years, Birmingham-based Ubique Legal has grown from being a two-person practice operating out of a single bedroom into a seven-employee-strong law firm specialising in real estate, landlords, and property law. 

The firm is undergoing a three-firm merger of three well established law firms within the region - John Barkers Solicitors, Symes Bains Broomer Limited, and Brewer Wallace Limited - into a single, unified entity by 2026.

Millar McCall Wylie: Transforming legal services with technology and innovation Driving efficiency, collaboration, and growth with OneAdvanced Practice and Case Management. Millar McCall Wylie is a leading full-service law firm based in Belfast, who has built a strong reputation for delivering high-quality legal services since its founding in 1997. With a team of 65 staff […]

Winners of the 2025 Reisman Award for Best New Law Firm, Adam Benedict has already made UK legal history while building a client-centred model that challenges the status quo. In just two years, the London-based firm has proven that innovation and purpose can drive real change in the legal sector.

According to The National Wills Report 2025, half of UK adults haven’t told anyone where their will is stored – or even if one exists. While around 38% of wills are kept with solicitors, many are held at home or in less secure locations, often without clear records. This makes locating a valid will harder than it should be.

As a precautionary measure, the treasury solicitor, Farrer & Co, conducted a will search with The National Will Register. This routine check was to ensure no unknown will existed before proceeding with the rules of intestacy. What they uncovered would change the outcome of the entire estate.