Clifford Chance is to ‘neutralize’ gender-specific language from its legal documents by using a new artificial intelligence tool that will remove greetings like ‘Dear Sir’ to provide a non-sexist language to its documents.‘He’ or ‘she’ will be replaced with ‘they’ or ‘them’ in the future documents and ‘chairman’ will b no more.The move is meeting […]
A review of Australian law firms found that 250 ‘worker bees’ were lost during the pandemic with the largest law firms losing over 2 per cent of their non-partner fee earners. The Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey found that the cuts followed the reduction of lawyers’ pay and pay freezes. Norton Rose Fulbright reportedly
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The merger of Lowndes & Co and Tompkins Wake has seen the growing law firm join the global Multilaw Group, which comprises 10,000 lawyers across 100 countries.Former Lowndes & Co principal Mark Lowndes has chaired Multilaw for a two-year term that terminated in 2013. He merged his firm with Tompkins Wake in September this year
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Australian law firm Lander & Rogers reacted to the #Metoo issues law firms face by implementing a ‘no bystanders’ rule that is intended to end the ‘culture of silence’ in the legal profession around sexual harassment.The firm’s managing partner, Genevieve Collins said that the strict guidelines on personal relationships and the mandatory reporting provisions were
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LawFuel’s recent article on alternative careers for those with legal qualifications saw huge interest – which might say something about the current law job market – but a recent article in Tagata Pacifika took a look at criminal lawyer-turned-childrens’ author Rein Vaai, who has published a series of books designed to encourage children to think
The gold standard for law firm bonuses is generally whatever Cravaths decides to do and now, once again, they’ve delivered in a COVID-ravaged legal sector even though a number of Big Law firms have been showing the way. Cravaths’ bonus list has not been earth-shattering, but very nice all the same.Cravath, Swaine & Moore have
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Former Attorney General Chris Finlayson QC is to receive an honorary doctorate of Law from Victoria University at the December graduation week.A National Party Cabinet Minister for nine years, until 2017, the former Bell Gully partner had extensive experience representing Maori interests, principally Ngai Tahu, before becoming a distinguished Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations.
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It was not difficult for in-house lawyer Patrick Gamble to shrug off a comparison made by a magazine article that the up-and-coming young legal operator was something of a Harvey Spector (pictured below) because of his sharp mind and sharp dressing.The proficient sportsman, who became a New Zealand Power Lifting champion in 2015 and has
Chapman Tripp’s new digs in the Commercial Bay development spare little expense, as befits one of the country’s leading law firms who have made 2020 a year to remember (pandemic excepted).The firm, which undertook a mid-year ‘brand refresh’ will undoubtedly be establishing in tangible fashion far more than prestige, class and an appropriate level of
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A Philadelphia lawyer running her own firm and representing Donald Trump’s campaign has complained of harassment from Kirkland & Ellis, dropping a lawsuit challenging the election results.Linda Kerns did not give harassment as a reason for dropping out of the lawsuit, but a court filing indicated that a short voice mail from a lawyer with
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