After a 20 year gap, the International Bar Association has elected its first woman president, appropriately reflecting the IBA’s own research on the need for greater gender equality in the legal profession. The new IBA president is Spanish lawyer Almudena Arpón de Mendívil y Aldama who is only the second woman in the Association’s 76 […]
The understandable results of the comment have left the law firm embarrassed and the texting lawyer without a job of his own – presumably sitting on his own ass. A Cleveland lawyer lost his job following an insulting text message he sent to a colleague who had returned from parental leave and resigned for another
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Chuck Kellner* Ben Crump, the civil rights advocate and social justice lawyer, grew up in North Carolina but has become a national legal champion of the oppressed, building his legal practice He has acted in some of the major, headline-making cases coming before the US courts including representing George Floyd, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown
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Michael Steele, a former partner in Kirkland & Ellis’ London office has picked up a Malibu mansion for $38 million as he plans a new career at an LA-based real estate private equity firm, GLP Capital Partners. Steele had previously worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer before moving to Kirkland & Ellis, one of the world’s
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Online communication skills for lawyers seeking to recruit legal talent mean mastering some key communication skills
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High profile lawyer and presidential contender Michael Avenatti, 51, has been sentenced to 14 years’ prison for the theft of millions of dollars from clients and tax fraud. Avenatti is currently serving a prison sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of wire fraud. The full press statement from the US Attorney relating to the
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A major storm is brewing for Elon Musk with a pending lawsuit over the Twitter employees he fired
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A Singaporean survey of lawyers has shown that fewer than half the 300 lawyers would encourage their children to take up the law. That result differed markedly from the 2021 survey, which had 77 per cent of the lawyers saying they would do the opposite. This year’s survey had 52 per cent saying ‘nay’. The
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New Zealand’s 50 most powerful lawyers in 2022 include a dozen new entrants as the law profession changes
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George and Amal Clooney, Co-Founders of The Clooney Foundation for Justice and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, will host the first-ever ‘Albie Awards’ at the New York Public Library later this week. Named after Justice Albie Sachs, revered for his heroic commitment to ending apartheid in South Africa, the Albie Awards will honor
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