Law360 UK

We are excited to release our 2024 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey diving into financial stress, work-life balance and job satisfaction across the UK. Today, Marialuisa Taddia looks at discontent in the industry despite rising salaries. https://lnkd.in/eUPzqbc6

Billionaire Barry Maloney is set to testify over his shareholder dispute with a private equity giant after the start of the London trial of his claim that it blocked him from forcing it out of its stake in a major software company to make him buy it out. https://lnkd.in/e7vbckgb

A lawyer at Gunnercooke LLP has been fined more than £14,000 for allowing clients to use the law firm's client account as a banking facility, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said. https://lnkd.in/e94Vu_AC

The European Union overstepped by passing a law requiring employers to pay staff an "adequate minimum wage," an adviser to the bloc's top court said amid Denmark's quest to revoke the law. https://lnkd.in/e6tMEdN6

Apple told a trial in London that a £1.5 billion claim over the commission it charges to third-party app developers overlooks the benefits users get from its App Store and ignores the company's intellectual property rights. https://lnkd.in/eYb-pYjB

Tulip Siddiq resigned as the Treasury minister in charge of economic policy over questions about her family ties to the deposed prime minister of Bangladesh, amid a widening corruption probe by Bangladeshi authorities. https://lnkd.in/evjiCfg7

A toy company asked a London court to find that the maker of Bratz dolls was guilty of "egregious" competition violations, accusing the doll seller's chief executive of using bullying tactics to stop it entering the market. https://lnkd.in/d_KfjV67

An employment tribunal ruled that an accountant at a charity in central London did not blow the whistle on the organization's equality practices, finding that his staffwide email contained nothing more than his personal opinion. https://lnkd.in/ex76S9RR

Apple was accused of "eliminating" competition to its App Store, allowing it to charge developers excessively high commissions that cost consumers up to £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion), as the first U.K. class action trial against a Big Tech company started. https://lnkd.in/eyNsw6-a

Simmons & Simmons LLP said Monday that it is raising the salaries of newly qualified associates in its Bristol office to £96,000 ($116,833) as it looks to boost its pipeline of promising junior lawyers in the southwest English city. https://lnkd.in/e3JvkbXe