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#Metoo And Fixing Gender-Hostile Workplaces Conceals a “Second Generation” Problem

Australia Law News, Headlining, Law Firms, UK Law / April 30, 2018

Australian Sex discrimination expert Dr Karen O’Connell believes gender-hostile workplaces are not being dealt with properly. The issue of sexual discrimination and harassment has been reaching a crescendo recently with the global #Metoo campaign, with a range of harassment issues in the United States, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and elsewhere. Dr O’Connell, speaking to […]

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The 5 Point Cyber Attack Protection That Lawyers Need to Use Now

Headlining, Law Firms, Law Technology / April 27, 2018

Cyber attack is a major risk for today’s law firms as cybercriminals target law firms in a multi-billion dollar industry that has lead to a fast-growing cyber industry, which remains a sensitive area to talk about for lawyers and businesses alike. But as the cyber crime business grows, the urgent need for law firms to

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How Super Star Lawyers With Stellar Payday Deals Are Changing Big Law’s Model

Headlining, Law Firms / April 19, 2018

Tom Caine – We recently reported in LawFuel about defections – or poachings – from top-of-the-tree law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore to fellow super firm Kirkland Ellis.The major moves of superstar lawyers from a firm like Cravaths was a hitherto almost unheard of occurrence. After all, why would any lawyer worth his salt leave

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2018 Shaping As Year Of The Legal Mega-Merger

Headlining, Law Firms / April 11, 2018

Mega law firm mergers have kicked off the year as three of this year’s biggest mergers involve law firms with over 1000 lawyers and the pace of law firms swallowing other large firms is set to continue. The reported merger between London-based Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy who are evidently talking with O’Melveny &

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Gender Discrimination In UK Law Firms

Headlining, Law Firms / April 6, 2018

Gender discrimination – or at least attempts to reduce the pay gap between male and female lawyers in UK law firms – has seen large firms disclose what the gap is. Pay gap gender discrimination is a major issue in the US and the UK, as well as other jurisdictions and was highlighted with the

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The Secrets Young Law Career Blogger Rosie Watterson Is Revealing To Scoring The Right Law Job

Headlining, Law Job News, UK Law / April 2, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Solicitor and blogger Rosie Watterson publishes the popular UK blog Apply.Shine.Win which provides practical advise to lawyers seeking a training contract with a firm and law career tips. Receiving a strong and growing readership via witty and insightful observations on working for a firm, Rosie Watterson has become an increasingly visible and listened-to

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The Day #Metoo Caught Big Law’s Bill Voge

Headlining, Law Firm Management, LawStars / March 29, 2018

How did the head of one of the world’s largest and richest law firms get caught up in a #Metoo scandal that cost him his job? Latham & Watkins has been reported as being the wealthiest law firm in the world, breaching the $3 billion barrier it was reported last month and it’s managing partner

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8 Surprising Facts About Sexual Harassment By Lawyers Which Your Law Firm Needs To Know

Headlining, Law Firms, Lawyers / March 25, 2018

Image: Law.com Caroline Burgess – Why are lawyers prone to sexual abuse and harassment? The answer to a large extent can be found in the way in which lawyers operate, their personality type and the fact that their

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The Trump Case Lawyers Whose Media Appearance Went . . . South (For One of Them Anyway)

Headlining, Lawyers / March 22, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From porn stars to Playmate models, the Trump accuser list continues to grow, but when the lawyers for one accuser, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer (Michael Avenatti) and for the President’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s lawyer (David Schwartz) got together on CNN the ‘discussion’ went right off the rails. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Discussing whether Trump knew about the ‘hush money’

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The Secret Barrister Book Explains How Britain’s Legal System Has Been Brought To Its Knees

Headlining, Lawyers, UK Law / March 19, 2018

Much has been written, lobbied, protested over and argued regarding the British legal system cutbacks in recent years. Now a new book has said the system is an A&E case. But now a book written by a ‘Secret Barrister’, a criminal lawyer and prosecutor, has exposed the system as one that is broken – in

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