Women lawyers may have their challenges in the law, but when they rise to them there can be an unstoppable momentum, such as the two power lawyers who lead the Big Law merger of Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). The combined firm now has a turnover of $1 billion with 560 partners across […]
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John Bowie – The Supreme Court has dismissed an application for recall of the judgment in the Jordan Williams v. Colin Craig case finding “some force” in the view that the delay in raising the matter “is both tactical and disqualifying”. However the Court did not hold an oral hearing despite some conflict as to
The Above the Law released their seventh Top 50 Law School rankings with the key focus being the law schools that actually result in graduates scoring good jobs – or indeed any jobs. The ATL rankings incorporate the ABA employment data from the 2018 year and are obviously a key ranking for that reason alone.
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John Bowie – It may have been inevitable that a saga like the Colin (“Enough is enough”) saga would entangle the judicial system itself. And now, as the Herald reveals today in its story ‘The judge, the QC and the holiday’, it sees the cosy relationship between bar and bench once again hitting the rocky
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Frank Cordner – Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to ‘investigate the investigators’ with an inquiry into the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation has created some serious concerns among many in DC and elsewhere. Will it, for instance, hamper attempts to fight the Kremlin’s political meddling in the next election? And will it provide his
The explosion in legal tech ‘apps’ will result in some massive consolidation, says an expert in the area, Professor Daniel Katz. Katz is professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law as well as having a major hand in legal tech himself, via his vice-president role in the global law tech company Elevate. There would
Justice Kit Toogood’s character analysis of defamation litigant Colin Craig may have rocked the former Conservative Party chief somewhat, having been described variously as being intelligent and articulate on the one hand, but “self absorbed”, “lacking insight” and “hypocritical” on the other. The seemingly endless Craig litigation drama, which LawFuel uncatalogued earlier, needed to be brought
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While the pay rate increases may excite the interests of young lawyers, it also comes at the cost of smaller associate teams required to hit higher billing targets.
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Overlawyered? Apparently not if the latest US figures are anything to go by. The last decade has seen a 14.5 per cent increase in the number of lawyers in the US. The ABA Journal has reported that lawyers in the US from the beginning of this year now number 1,352,027, up from 1,180,386 in 2009.
In a career of high publicity and renown, Melbourne barrister Bret Walker SC has the case of his career on his hands with the attempt to free former Cardinal George Pell from prison. But the Court are listening, along with the rest of Australia and legal world. Walker’s attempts to persuade the Appeal Court that
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