Acting Attorney General Sally Yates allegedly “betrayed the Department of Justice” by refusing to enforce the order from President Trump, who then did what he does so well and fired her. Citing her as “weak”, she took the extraordinarily rare – and many would say either brave or stupid – step of defying the White House […]
Women-in-law and the issues they face is a bugbear for the legal profession and continues to bug women lawyers – with good reason. Inequality and a lack of access to partnership is a continuing problem for many in the profession. According to data published by the American Bar Association’s Market Research Department in April 2016,
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Goodwin, a leading Global 50 law firm, announced today that preeminent securities and commercial litigator Marshall Fishman has joined the firm’s Financial Industry Practice as a partner, and Head of its New York Commercial and Financial Litigation Practice. Fishman brings to Goodwin more than 30 years of experience advising global financial institutions on complex multijurisdictional
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The UK Supreme Court’s Brexit ruling has served to increase focus upon Britain’s highest court – and one of the questions being looked at is who next might enter the lofty ranks of the country’s top court. The court will see an array or retirements from the Bench as statutory retirement age comes up and
Seeking niche markets in the law is one of the keys to success for many lawyers. And one of the latest on the legal scene is marijuana law, which has seen Anchorage lawyer Jana Weltzin pioneering her new practice area. Marijuana law in Alaska faces not legal issues particularly, but supply and zoning
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It’s a truism that Big Law in particular looks down at night school lawyers – but that breed deserve a special mention for reasons that no Ivy League lawyer may ‘get’. First, going to night law school is no easy task, particularly when you’re working all day. Rising to that challenge is something that the
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By John Reed* “You should be blogging.” This is a phrase you’ve likely heard many, many times from law firm business development staff, legal marketing pundits, and even other lawyers. They’ve probably said that blogging will boost your search engine optimization results, drive traffic to your website, and have prospects beating a path to your
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We liked the point made in an article on Mashable by Alexandra Levit where she outlined the 10 pieces of career advice that remain as true today as they were in 1996. Levit points out that personal relationships, even in an age of major social media networks, are still as important as ever in terms
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Can Amal Clooney really be more influencial in British law than – say – the Supreme Court? Clearly, no. But that’s not what Debrett’s, the people who are given such influence themselves in Britain over who is who and who is not. Their list of 20 lawyers who are Britain’s most influential include Ms Clooney
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The Lawyer in the UK are preparing for the publication of the “Hot List” of the lawyers and their pre-publication excitement has lead to the publication of four lawyers named in the list previously and how the honour has changed their professional, if not personal lives. Excited? Well, whatever. The first up is the Royal
