The Jones Day lawsuit ‘virus’ is spreading. The Big Law firm faces further allegations of gender bias with claims being brought from its offices in both New York and Atlanta as three anonymous, former female associates of the firm saying that they suffered from Jones Days’ gender bias. Jones Day now faces allegations of gender […]
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Powered by LawFuel – Baker McKenzie is delighted to announce today new global aspirational targets set at 40:40:20 per cent gender diversity, to represent 40% women, 40% men and 20% flexible (women, men or non-binary persons). This target applies to Partners, senior business professionals, Firm committee leadership and candidate pools for recruitment. Baker McKenzie has
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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
Mark Medice* – Mark Twain is often reputed to have stated that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This phrase comes to mind when reading recent reports from The American Lawyer on the performance of large law firms in 2018. In its reporting, The American Lawyer observed that the Am Law 100 grew revenue at 8% over
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
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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ASX-listed Shine Corp., the parent company of Shine Lawyers has settled a $250 million shareholder action brought against it in 2017 on a confidential basis and without admission of liability. The class action was filed in the Supreme Court of Queensland by US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (QE) who alleged Shine misled investors in
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Former High Court Judge Robert Fisher QC has a substantial mediation and arbitration practice. Sitting at No. 19 on the LawFuel Power List, Robert Fisher’s mediation work sees him practising nationally and internationally he handles a wide range of mediation work, including matrimonial and relationship property disputes and civil and commercial mediations. Having lectured and
Geoff Sharp has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal as one of the 10 most highly regarded international mediators and is one of New Zealand’s busiest commercial mediators. His practice increasingly sees him overseas, but he maintains a hugely busy domestic mediation practice working with commercial, private and government clients. He has also been widely used
