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NZ Big Law Firm’s Serious Sexual Harassment Allegations in #MeToo Sex Storm

No sooner had LawFuel published its piece on sexual harassment/assault issues with Baker + McKenzie when New Zealand’s arguably most prestigious law firm, Russell McVeagh, has been brought into the same firing line. The sexual harassment issue with law firms internationally has been an issue for many years, made worse by the male-dominated legal partners […]

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Sexual Assault in Law Firms Alive & Well – Baker + McKenzie Now in Firing Line

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Sexual assault appears to be all the rage in the entertainment industry – and many others – but is the law business immune? Hardly, and a recently reported gagging order against one of the world’s largest law firms, Baker + McKenzie, appears to prove the point firmly. The Times reported that the firm is being

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Former Big Law Partner and Legal Success Story Draws 7 Year Jail Term

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Raymond Ho was a highly successful lawyer – a partner at Arent Fox at the age of 33 before opening a successful IP law firm. But no more. His career ended when he pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.   Prosecutors said that he was a “prolific money launderer” who funneled $2.1

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Jail Time For Former Dentons Associate After His Blackmail Plan

Fired Dentons Associate Michael Potere’s interesting career took another turn this week with his sentencing on charges of attempting to extort his former employer under threat of releasing highly sensitive information he had downloaded from the email account of the firm’s LA managing director’s account. Not the best of plans, you may think and both

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5 Millennial Changes ‘Generation Me’ Are Bringing to Law Firms

David Weston What sort of law firm would best suit millenials and what changes are the ‘Me To’ generation bringing to the way law firms operate? The question was recently posed to the managing principal of a mid-sized law firm, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman. Vito Gagliardi made the observation to the New Jersey Law Journal

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