Former Pillsbury Winthrop CEO Mary Cranston spoke to LawFuel about New Zealand law firms, noting that they included some of the best law firm managers in the world and the country’s record with the recently published Economist glass ceiling index, which indicated that New Zealand was fifth in the world on the index, behind the […]
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Like to see the data on the National Association for Law Placement and whether law schools are withholding information from their ‘consumers’? Law.com’s Kylee McEntee has written about the list of schools publishing NALP reports for 2010-2012, with the largest number (108 reports) for 2012. To see the data go to the LST Score Reports.
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Law firm rankings? Where would we be without them. The first quarter of the 2014 Am Law rankings, released this week, and for M&A advisors has Skadden Arps and Simpson Tacher in the top three. The charts were released by various media entities and trends were based on the value of coprorate clients’ transactions internationally
Former Pillsbury Winthrop senior partner and chair Mary Cranson spoke to LawFuel about gender diversity issues in law firms, noting the top three things she recommends that law firms – and others – need to do in order to achieve gender diversity. Ms Cranston’s successful reign at Pillsburys saw the firm expand from its California
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Winnie M Li wrote this article about her experience being raped while at Harvard and how her case was handled. Her article appears in the Huffington Post. When I woke up this morning a friend had mailed me this anonymous article by a current under-graduate about Harvard’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. “This made
Cherie Blair, the wife of former British PM Tony, has been doing alright since her husband left Number 10 Downing Street. Like husband Tony, who has operated lucrative business broking deals and various charitable and peace-keeping missions (the results of which are perhaps less notable), Cherie Blair operates her ultra-private law and strategy firm from
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Justice Sotomayor has blazed an interesting and distinctive path according to a paper written for Yale Law School by David Fontana, who talks about the “People’s Justice” – someone who has broken through the more removed personas of other jurists. The Judge’s easy manner and liberal perspective give her an ability to provide a better
Part 1 – Guest Blogging Rules By LawFuel publisher John Bowie – Content marketing and blog posting are two of the ‘big names’ in online marketing these days, but Google has recently sounded some warning bells about how content should be used, which has seen the popular content-generating cornerstone of SEO – guest blogging –
You have to hand it to Frank Cullotta. For a former hitman depicted in the Martin Corsese movie Casino, he’s gone straight to the extent that he now shows tourists around the old criminal haunts in Las Vegas. Mind you, Mr Cullotta had already become FBI informant back in the 1980s and then had to
Addition of McKnight & Kennedy, LLC Creates National False Claims Act Powerhouse Ross Brooks and Andrew Melzer Promoted to Partnership March 31, 2014, Washington, DC – Sanford Heisler LLP, a leading national public interest class-action litigation law firm with nearly one billion dollars in False Claims Act recovery, today welcomed two of the most successful
