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Legal Career Network for UK ‘STEM’ Lawyers Launched

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The growth of technology, artificial intelligence and related issues has lead to the creation of the first legal careers network in the UK for students with a science, engineering and tech background.The STEM Lawyers Network is designed to provide opportunities for students with these backgrounds to network with major law firms.As the STEM website records,  we […]

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6 Simple Ways To Shorten – And IMPROVE – Your Resume

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”bounceIn”] This article was originally published on Forbes. Do you include everything but the kitchen sink in your resume? If you do, it’s time to stop. Include the best parts, and get rid of the rest. The more information you put on your resume, the more difficult it will be for the reader to see

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Slowdown in Slaughter & May Pay Following UK Uncertainty

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[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 associates were chucked

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

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[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 it works

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

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[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 transform Microsoft.There’s no

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

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[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 blog “Legal Cheek”

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

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[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 ‘cheating’ –

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Stress Levels of Young Lawyers Hit Red Line Alert Level

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[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 as a

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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 writes her

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7 Key Recruiter Secrets To Getting A Great Law Job

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[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 Flanagan, at Kinsella Legal1.

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