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Slowdown in Slaughter & May Pay Following UK Uncertainty

Law Job News / June 10, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] UK’s hung parliament and the Brexit uncertainty have lead to leading lawyers Slaughter & May freezing their pay rates, according to a UK legal media report. Legal blog Legal Cheek reported that the firm was not proposing further increases “at this time” for associates reporting the “muted increases” from last December. The firm’s fresh-faced […]

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How Myer-Briggs Can Tell You What Sort of Lawyer You Should Be

Career Advice / May 31, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Myers-Briggs personality types that dominate so many people seeking new jobs, but knowing about the sort of person you are can also help you as a lawyer professionally – and personally. The Myers-Briggs test is designed to bring order to apparently random behaviour or thought patterns. You can see an overview of how

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The One, Simple Piece of Career Advice From Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

Career Advice / May 16, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What’s the best career advice you could receive? Better still, what’s the best advice you can actually use to advance your career satisfactorily? A recent article in Business Inside with Microsoft boss Satya Nadella saw the software giant’s boss pay credit to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and his best-selling book, Mindset, which Nadella saw as helping to

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LSE’s Fake News Tort Exam Featuring “Donald” and “Nigel”

Featured, Headlining, Law schools / May 8, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Exams can be tough enough without tedious fact situations, but London’s School of Economics (LSE) has once again become somewhat controversial by presenting a ‘fact situation’ for a tort test that features individuals named “Donald” (as in you-know-who) and “Nigel” (as in Farange). The LSE exam for first year law students’ tort exam. Law

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The Law Revue Cheaters: Why Above the Law Awards No-One (Yet)

Featured, Headlining, Law schools / April 30, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Law students cheat? Surely not. Particularly to win a ‘virtual trophy’ for a Law Review Video competition. But no, that was the case outlined in a strongly-worded missive on AbovetheLaw by publisher David Lat, who wrote that the stats for alleged visitors and votes for the competition were revealed as being falsified – ie

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Stress Levels of Young Lawyers Hit Red Line Alert Level

Headlining, Law Firm Management, Law Job News / April 11, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Stress and over work at record level for junior lawyers in the UK, a new survey show. A survey shows that over 90 per cent of young lawyers say they are under stress or pressure from work and more than half of those surveyed said they feel unable to work either regularly or occasionally

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The Lawyer Who Dumped Constitutional Law for Highly Paid ‘Courtesan’ Career

Career Advice / February 26, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The lawyer you’re doubtless looking at is not your usual constitutional lawyer. Indeed Claudia de Marchi, 34, is no longer a constitutional lawyer, having changing her law job for a brand new one that earns her more and counters the pervasive male domination of the law profession: She’s a paid ‘courtesan’. de Marchi, who

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7 Key Recruiter Secrets To Getting A Great Law Job

Career Advice / February 15, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Scoring a top law job is more than just having a fully-prepped resume and making the interview. There are some moves you can make that can help you secure a great law job by following what some of the top law recruiters privately recommend to those who ask. We name seven of them: Sinead

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True Grit Needed For Women Lawyers To Succeed, Says New Study

Career Advice, Headlining / February 7, 2017

“Grits with that?” It may be the calling-card for successful women lawyers according to research undertaken by The Grit Project. The Grit Project was prepared by the ABA’s Commission on Women in the law profession and is to be published in a book later this year. However a Miami meeting last week showed that there

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The 4 Major Obstacles STILL Facing Women in the Legal Profession

Career Advice / January 30, 2017

Women-in-law and the issues they face is a bugbear for the legal profession and continues to bug women lawyers – with good reason. Inequality and a lack of access to partnership is a continuing problem for many in the profession. According to data published by the American Bar Association’s Market Research Department in April 2016,

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