A top QC in a rapper video is not quite what is usually expected of British silks, but in the case of the rapper – Tokyi Ajibola aka Trapstar Toxic – it follows his acquittal on two counts of attempted murder and a three week trial at the Old Bailey. James Scobie QC of Garden […]
Dan Stokes – Attorney bio pages are the most frequently visited pages on most law firm websites, so how you showcase and organize those profiles is critical. A key component of that profile is the attorney’s photo. Attorney photography is often viewed as a discrete assignment, one that’s time-consuming and often difficult to manage. It’s
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7 Key Tips for Millennials in Law Job Interviews
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Clifford Chance – Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing at a phenomenal speed (think, for example, of driverless cars, or, simply, interaction with the personal assistant on your smartphone) and is now set to transform the legal industry by mining documents, reviewing and creating contracts, raising red flags and performing due diligence. We are enthusiastic early
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Michelle Banner – Meetings are the bane of many lives, lawyers included. They’re also incredibly expensive according to an article we picked up from Alex Cavoulacos at TheMuse, which reported a US cost to one company (non law) of $15 million. Now that, let it be said, is nuts. Further, there is a ‘context-switching’ time
Clerking for a Supreme Court Justice to working on Death Row are career extremes even for a young lawyer just embarking on his legal career, but the California Bar is “pure torture” but for this young lawyer there was also a personal payoff too. But for kiwi lawyer Andrew Row one of the seminal moments
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Law practitioners aren’t immune from the drive to seek change once in awhile. People quite often discover that their career path isn’t working out anymore. Some don’t start feeling this way until they’ve been working for 20 years. Some people realize it before they graduate. Either way, your schooling and your experience isn’t wasted. If
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Generating content and “content marketing” have become a mantra for many, but for small businesses, attorneys and others there are some traps out there when attempting to develop authority for your brand. The reality is that while website content can be a great marketing tool, it can also be a trap for the unwary who
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
The growth in technology for the legal sector has been the subject of high interest, but it’s nice to see the tech trend at the human level too. Boston’s WBUR.org for instance took a look at how artificial intelligence is rewiring the lawyers, speaking with Ropes & Gray’s Shannon Capone Kirk (left) who runs the
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