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Baker + McKenzie’s #Metoo Headache As Charges Laid

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The former head of global legal giant Baker McKenzie’s London office is facing prosecution for alleged sexual harassment, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said today with the former chief and his former firm instructing partners at law firms Kingsley Napley and RadcliffesLeBrasseur to represent them. Gary Senior, who left the firm last year, has been

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The Cool Kids Push Back: The Millennials Reshaping The Legal Profession

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We know Millennials have taken a different attitude to work than the generations before, but according to legal futurist Mitch Kowalski the ‘cool kids’ are reshaping the entire profession. Speaking at a conference organised by the New South Wales Law Society, Kowalski said the Millennials are abandoning the traditional law firms and seeking out firms

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Jones Day Responds to Gender Bias Lawsuit Sayings It’s a “Distorted Picture”

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In Jones Day, the Big Law firm under intense attack in a $200 million proposed gender discrimination class action, has delivered its first detailed response to claims that it systematically discriminated against women, saying it was a “distorted picture” of the truth. LawFuel has reported earlier on the ‘spreading virus’ of lawsuits against the firm and

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Gender Diversity in Law – Here’s One Firm Going Beyond the Lip Service?

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Stepping Up The Diversity Pace There is great huffing and puffing about what law firms are doing in the diversity space and Whitney & Dorsey have not exactly lead the pack, ranking at 141st place for Am Law’s 2019 Diversity Scorecard recently. But times are changing and the firm is now introducing a new ‘diversity hours’

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