By: Maria Ward-Brennan

Professional Services Editor Maria Ward-Brennan is the Professional Services Editor at City AM, focused on law, Big Four, and other management and accounting consulting firms. She edits the Beyond The Billable newsletter and column. She was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or on X @MariaW_B.

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Legal regulator contacts more than 1,000 law firms over poor sanctions compliance

January 30, 2024

The UK's legal regulator has contacted more than 1,000 law firms that it deemed to have poor sanctions compliance systems in place.
EY is latest to start monitoring attendance of UK employees

January 29, 2024

EY has become the latest to monitor its UK employees’ office attendance in order to see if staff are aligned with its hybrid working guidelines. According to the Financial Times, the Big Four firm is recording the swipe card entry of staff to show how frequent they are attending its offices. The data is being [...]
BT heads to court to fight £1.3bn class action

January 29, 2024

Telecoms giant BT is set to appear in court today as it faces a £1.3bn class action over allegations it has "disproportionately overcharged" its landline customers, many of whom are elderly.
Clifford Chance: Magic Circle law firm set to monitor lawyers office attendance

January 26, 2024

Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance are set to watch their lawyers office days by monitoring their attendance, but the firm has a more liberal hybrid policy compared to others. The firm introduced a hybrid working policy in 2021 which requires staff to be in the office for 50 per cent of their time, which [...]
Competition watchdog launches formal probe of Vodafone and Three tie-up

January 26, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a formal investigation into the merger of Vodafone and Three. Back last June, Vodafone and CK Hutchinson, owner of Three, announced their long-awaited UK £15bn merger. The deal would combine the companies’ telecommunications operations under one single network provider. The CMA today has started its Phase 1 [...]
Russian-born billionaire and former F1 boss tops the richest tax list

January 26, 2024

A Moscow-born billionaire and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone topped this year’s Times tax list, but not for the same reasons.
Baroness Michelle Mone assets worth £75m frozen by a court order

January 26, 2024

The order was consented to by Mone and Barrowman and followed by an application by the Crown Prosecution Service under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
WWE’s Vincent McMahon hit with sex trafficking lawsuit in US

January 26, 2024

WWE’s billionaire founder and executive chairman Vincent McMahon was hit with a lawsuit in the US accusing him of sex trafficking. A former employee at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Janel Grant, has accused wrestler of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as trafficking in a lawsuit filed on Thursday at the District Court for [...]
Wayne Barnes sets his focus on the law after he blows the whistle on refereeing

January 26, 2024

Former rugby ref Wayne Barnes has traded the laws of the game for the laws of the land as he heads into practice full-time
UK government’s onshore wind snub faces legal threats

January 25, 2024

If the government had defined it, it would have allowed applications for new onshore wind projects to be fast-tracked through the planning system.

AI firms taking ‘catastrophically high’ risks, ex-OpenAI researcher warns MPs

Netflix makes first major entry into live men’s football with World Cup deal

Artificial writer responds to OpenAI boss slamming film as ‘awful’

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