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Former FBI Chief of Staff Returns to Law Firm
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Why The NZ Law Society Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree With It’s ‘Culture Change’ Task Force
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Legal AI Company Grows Presence in UK, US and APAC
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The Innovative Lawyers: 10 Leaders Making A Change
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Australian Firm News
Norton Rose and the Indigenous Law Joint Venture
Norton Rose Fulbright have joined forces with Jaramer Legal, a firm formed last year to help fill the commercial law gap for Indigenous commercial lawyers. Formed with Bevan Mailman, a Bidjara man and Brian Bero, a Meriam man, the firm sees Norton Rose provide administrative support and training to Jaramer and regularly seconds lawyers there. […]
Australia’s “Most Attractive” Firms
The Top 10 ‘Most Attractive’ Law Firms The survey of the ‘Top 25 Attraction Firms’ in Australia has seen Herbert Smith Freehills’ end a four year run with Minter Ellison taking poll position. The law firm attraftion survey, conducted by Momentum Intelligence and Lawyers Weekly is based on the query to external lawyers: ‘which firm […]
UK Firm News
Big Law Firm Investigated For WhatsApp ‘T*ts and Filth’ Group
Amid the #Metoo era and major efforts by the law profession to stamp out the culture issues that come with sexist, gender-offensive activity a major law firm is reportedly investigating a “highly offensive” text messaging group about female trainee solicitors. The Independent said it had received a statement from the big law firm confirming the […]
Big Grossing Kirkland Promotes Record Number of Partners
As the world’s highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis is used to pushing the limits and has done so again making 141 partners in the largest partner-promotion in a big law firm. The firm promoted 122 partners last year and interestingly it works to fast-track associates to partnership in contrast to many firms that increasingly […]