A UK study has found that one-third of law students regret taking their degree and even more found that the degree was not value for money. The Student Academic Experience Survey had asked over 14,000 undergraduate students in the UK : ‘If you knew what you know now, would you have chosen another course?’, resulting in […]
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A London law firm that uses an array of sexy images on its social media accounts is now in the midst of a minor scandal over an alleged phony ad seeking “a pretty lawyer to impress Asian clients.” UK law blog Legal Cheek said Bloomsbury Law Solicitors was the firm involved, but the firm says it was
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Harvey Weinstein’s in more trouble than you can shake a stick at, which means hiring attorneys fast. And in Harvey’s case in particular he’s turning – surprise, surprise – to the lady lawyers. Will that work, though? The fired movie mogul is an old hand at hiring attorneys and has used several of the best
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Law Society elections are usually pretty tame affairs, but not this week’s battle in Queensland, which has pitted faction against faction and become a battle royal with the decision by current leaders to run for re-election. Mostly, past presidents slip down the rungs of office, but for the third time in nearly a century the
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Big Law and big money seem to go together like bacon and eggs, but the massive profit margins that are often touted are false. So says American Lawyer writer Chris Johnson, lead ALM reporter in Europe with a detailed knowledge of the legal business and who penned an article for AmLaw that described the disparity
When judging whether a law job is the job you really want, you’ll doubtless gauge the various options: teaching, banking, business – but what of pornography, for instance? Which is precisely what English law student Ella Hughes decided after making waves online, so to speak, with her pornographic acting. Her first video achieved over 4
Competition from the Big Four accounting firms will continue to impact on the legal profession, according to a study from ALM. We’ve reported previously about firms like PwC moving heavily into the legal field and those moves are accelerating as the accountants decide legal services across the board are theirs for the taking too. The
The head of the largest law firm in the world, Dentons, believes that new technology will not lead to widespread job losses in the legal profession as many have feared and anticipated. The Times report that Joseph Andrews, heading a firm that is the largest in the world by the number of lawyers it employs,
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Law School ‘newbies’ are faced with a range of issues and downright fears when it comes to determining whether they have made the right choice about going to law school in the first place, let alone graduating and embarking on a whole new career and life. But fortunately Renwei Chung, AbovetheLaw’s ‘Diversity Columnist’ made a
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With all the talk of the effect of artificial intelligence and the manner in which it will reshape the future law firm, one Big Law firm has taken a fresh approach to handling the challenge – by asking the associates what to do. Bryan Cave started thinking about all this in May when their chief
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