Lance Goddard* I read a lot of law firm practice descriptions. Occasionally I come across one that is well written, client focused, and concise, a useful overview of what the firm does, and how its lawyers help their clients. Most, however, miss the mark. Most do a poor job of selling legal services. Most of
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Appleby, the ‘Paradise Papers’ law firm behind the latest tax papers hack involving 13.4 million papers, is an amount calculated to be around $US10 trillion. Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned in the hack are politicians, celebrities like Bono (left), business leaders and include Queen Elizabeth, the President of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos; and the U.S.
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A UK study has found that one-third of law students regret taking their degree and even more found that the degree was not value for money. The Student Academic Experience Survey had asked over 14,000 undergraduate students in the UK : ‘If you knew what you know now, would you have chosen another course?’, resulting in
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Geoffrey Schuler, CPA Finding reliable, real-time news sources and creating good habits to constantly monitor these outlets can be overwhelming for many young professionals. It took me a long time to identify my list of favored resources (tailored to the legal industry) and means to access this list in real time. This blog is aimed
Carlia Reiner* – Among my many roles as a Client Services Specialist at JD Supra, one of my favorite tasks is the weekly emails I send to clients showing them how their thought leadership has been used or referenced in the media, leading to exactly the kind of PR exposure they’re hoping to achieve. Marketers
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Conn Maciel Carey Dearest Daughter, In October 2017, more than four dozen women stood up against workplace harassment by a man of power in the entertainment industry. Then, the #MeToo Movement was born where people of all races, ages, backgrounds, and geographic regions, working in different industries, stood up and voiced that they too have
A London law firm that uses an array of sexy images on its social media accounts is now in the midst of a minor scandal over an alleged phony ad seeking “a pretty lawyer to impress Asian clients.” UK law blog Legal Cheek said Bloomsbury Law Solicitors was the firm involved, but the firm says it was
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Harvey Weinstein’s in more trouble than you can shake a stick at, which means hiring attorneys fast. And in Harvey’s case in particular he’s turning – surprise, surprise – to the lady lawyers. Will that work, though? The fired movie mogul is an old hand at hiring attorneys and has used several of the best
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Slaughter and May and ASI Data Science, the high-growth British Technology firm, have published Superhuman Resources, a joint white paper on the responsible deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. We believe that AI could become the most transformative workplace technology of the 21st Century, with the associated need for business leaders to assure themselves that they are
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Law Society elections are usually pretty tame affairs, but not this week’s battle in Queensland, which has pitted faction against faction and become a battle royal with the decision by current leaders to run for re-election. Mostly, past presidents slip down the rungs of office, but for the third time in nearly a century the
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