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

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

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“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

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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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The 10 Things That Still Make the Difference to Your Career After All These Years

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We liked the point made in an article on Mashable by Alexandra Levit where she outlined the 10 pieces of career advice that remain as true today as they were in 1996. Levit points out that personal relationships, even in an age of major social media networks, are still as important as ever in terms

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Tired of Timesheets at Big Law? Well You May Be A Legal Zuckerberg

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Has the law profession morphed into an “industry” capable of producing billionaires. And – if so – are you capable of being the ‘legal Zuckerberg’? An article in AboveTheLaw from Thomson Reuters’ Joe Borstein makes the bold claim that by 2027 there will be many billionaires from the “legal industry”, but few will be

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A Top Barrister’s Tips For Aspiring Lawyers – (Or What Law School Doesn’t Teach You)

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Gordan Exall is a leading Leeds and London-based barrister who took to his Twitter account with all the verve but none of the humour of Donald Trump – extolling aspiring lawyers of the merits (or lack thereof) of a life in the law.   In his ‘life of the long-distance barrister’ #lawschool series of Twitter

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Ranking Law Schools on Their Job Placements, Rather Than Their Prestige

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Having a big name law school on your resume is great for Big Law jobs, but the reality is that most lawyers don’t work in Big Law. And there is also the fact that lower-ranked law schools can also provide greater job opportunities than some of the major name law schools. Professor of Law Daniel

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