Rachel Howard* Making partner – especially making partner in a Big Law outfit – is the holy grail for many who enter the hallowed halls of such places. Or is it? An increasing number of lawyers appear to be rejecting the ambitious route towards wealth, prestige and power, in favor of other things – like […]
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Barbara Bowden* – Only about a third of all attorneys are female— and that number is hard-won, as in this typically male-dominated world, women have worked hard to carve their niche. A bit of history regarding women in the law profession: In 1868, Mary E. Magoon opened her own law office in Iowa, although
7 Key Tips for Millennials in Law Job Interviews
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Clerking for a Supreme Court Justice to working on Death Row are career extremes even for a young lawyer just embarking on his legal career, but the California Bar is “pure torture” but for this young lawyer there was also a personal payoff too. But for kiwi lawyer Andrew Row one of the seminal moments
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Reece Witherspoon’s portrayal of Elle Woods, the sorority girl who became a Harvard Law student, has reportedly lead to hundreds – nay, thousands – of women becoming law students (or at least going to law school). We know this because she told Wall Street Journal in an article, saying: “At least once a week I have
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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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The ‘squiggly line’ move towards a successful career is something suggested by a multimillionaire former lawyer and by top QC Miriam Dean. Ms Dean is the woman lawyer who was Russell McVeagh’s first woman partner, heading the firm’s litigation department and helping set the firm’s increased pace of elevating women. But for the woman who
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Law firm futurologist Richard Susskind has stirred the legal pot many times with his Book “Tomorrow’s Lawyers” and with lectures and writings about the future law firm. His book’s second edition is now also having prospective lawyers asking prospective employers some pointed questions about their firms. It’s a tactic that has drawn criticism from some
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The pressure for lawyers to succeed – or anyone to succeed for that matter – is increasing and also increasing at as younger age. But one Sydney barrister has ‘come clean’ over her secrets of failure and the fears that came with it. The Sydney Morning Herald carried an article about Sharna Clemmett, 38, a
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