DLA Piper’s Holly R. Lake named Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year by Century City Bar Association March 3, 2020 – The Century City Bar Association has named DLA Piper partner Holly R. Lake its Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year. She will receive the award at the association’s annual banquet on May 6, 2020, in Los […]
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Victoria Hudgins*The mountain of emails greeting a lawyer when they start their work day can be a daunting task. Add in a steady avalanche of emails throughout the day, and a lawyer can easily feel besieged and stressed. Being inundated with emails was one of various work stressors that the “Friend or Foe: Tech and
Law firms face four key diversity challenges but there are creative ways to meet them
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Wellington barrister JD Dallas, a frequent China traveller, is in lockdown at his mother-in-law’s apartment, relying on colleagues to handle is legal work at home. He has been mostly confined to an apartment by order of officials in the city of Shiyan for more than a month. The couple have been in the city, about 400km northwest of Wuhan, the
Allen + Overy – The story of Define, a start-up company currently working within A&O’s tech innovation space, Fuse, is one that has deep significance for how the legal profession and other industries support talented people with disabilities. Nnamdi Emelifeonwu (left) and Ghazi AbuYounis (right) The company is the brainchild of two former lawyers, Feargus
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A Nelson lawyer’s attempts to have a travel ban imposed by Air New Zealand lifted after a display of bad behaviour n the Koru Lounge has been dismissed in a High Court decision by Justice Davison in the High Court, Auckland. The lawyer, Anjela Sharma had sought an interim injunction to overturn the one-year ban
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Maria Dew QC’s efforts to reinvigorate the attractions – if that is the word – of legal aid is designed to help reverse the dramatic decline of legal aid suppliers, driven by remuneration and compliance problems. Writing in the Law Society’s weekly bulletin, Ms Dew referred to the death of her own civil legal aid
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In the tsunami of recent District Court Judge appointments, Nelson appointees Michelle Duggan and Nicola Grimes share their elevation just as they share most other high points in their lives. >>Daily Law Jobs on LawFuel Jobs – See Here Born eight days apart, both working in the Family Court and both with three children, the
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Powered by LawFuel – LOS ANGELES – A California lawyer practising in Orange County was arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment charging her with conspiring to sell firearms without a license and distributing methamphetamine. Melinda Romines, 41, of Anaheim, was taken into federal custody this morning. She is expected to make her initial court appearance
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They may be relics these days, but for barrister Ray Broomhall, the collection of wigs is part of a desire to retain a slice of legal history. But at the same time this barrister has successfully fought against something far more modern than the wigs of old. As wigs are now part of legal history
