But here ‘get your f….g ass up and work’ comment has created a Will Smith-style apology to women in businessKardashians’ star Kim Kardashian has more than a passion for fashion and celebrity, she also has passion for criminal justice with a desire for a legal career to follow her father, who shot to his own […]
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By raising the possibility of nuclear annihilation, the Russian president has buried the honorific into deep irrelevance
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The biglaw salary scale just got higher in London following another US-based law firm lifting the pay rates for newly qualified lawyers to an eye-watering $215,000. Reports from London indicate that Vinson & Elkins has joined the other Stateside law firms Gibson Dunn and Simpson Thacher in lifting salaries to £161,700 and £158,000. Covington &
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The UK Government has announced new laws relating to the use of libel laws by wealthy individuals to silence journalists and others with announcements from the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab.The Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab will today set out proposals that take aim at so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
Leading London law firm Mischcon de Reya, setting itself up for the UK’s largest law firm float, has had another major setback with an admission that it breached its duty by failing to file a hard copy of an appeal bundle in time on behalf of client, former Premier League football club Sunderland AFC.The club
Law School admission in the US has long involved the LSAT, but it could become a thing of the past following announced plans made by the US Law School Admission Council this week? The answer is ‘No’, but there are certainly major changes afoot.>> Your law job hereThe legal education program due to start this
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The devastation in the Ukraine rendered by Russian forces is one thing, but Moscow is being abandoned with growing force as big law firms continue to desert the Russian legal landscape.Six leading international law firms have announced plans to pull out of Russia today, including global giants Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, while
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Among the many thousands taking up arms against the Russian invaders in Ukraine are many lawyers and others, including a Judge from Ukraine’s Supreme Court, Ivan Mishchenko.Media reports say that Mishchenko, a judge of the Supreme Court in Ukraine with a background in commercial litigation, has joined one of the units defending the capital Kyiv
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Cravaths’ ‘wow’ factor on mid-level and senior associates’ pay levelsThe Big Law salary scale just took another push from big law salary payer Cravaths . . Cravaths, along with Davis Polk and Milbank are the ‘troika’, as AbovetheLaw describes them, that lead the way on the big law salary scale and – once again –
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Australian law firms have had record financial years with the Australian Financial Review reporting strong results for the first half of 2022 due to the financial marketings pushing revenues up by over 13 per cent.The report from Thomson Reuters released last week showed that practice areas continue to grow with Australian law firms outpacing their
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