The reporting season for London’s Magic Circle firms has started with some mouth-watering figures emerging, lead by Freshfields’ partner pay packets. So what are the numbers? Leading the field with profit per equity partner (PEP) are Freshfields – £1.73 million Allen & Overy – £1.64 million Clifford Chance – £1.6 million. All firms displayed revenue […]
The report into Russell McVeagh’s sexual harassment issues by Dame Margaret Bazley over incidents that occurred in 2016/16 involved an ‘out of control’ team and a widespread failure in the firm’s management and code of conduct. The Bazley report said the firm’s ‘work hard, play hard’ culture that had involved excessive drinking and related issues, along with
Tom Birkett* – The late Justice Chambers has created more controversy since his untimely death than he did during his celebrated legal career. The current Chambers debate de jour involves the High Court garden funded by the Ministry of Justice to the tune of over $340,000 and which has resulted in criticism over its funding.
John Bowie* – Following the Trump presidency has never been easy, but following who the lawyers are who represent Donald Trump is even more of a struggle. A group of lawyers – mainly men – appear to represent the controversial President of the United States as he faces a raft of issues, claims, accusations and
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Do New Zealand Crown Prosecutors have a more “assertive” role in sentencing that comparable jurisdictions like Australia and England? According to research undertaken by Wellington Crown Prosecutors Luke Cunningham and Clere, they probably do. The research report from the firm’s associate Andrew Britton “Pressing for Sentence? An Examination of the New Zealand Crown Prosecutor’s Role in
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OneThe New Zealand Law Society’s sexual harassment survey has found extensive sexual harassment and bullying in the profession, as was widely known. However women harassers were also found to be an extensive problem. One of the report’s finding was that over the past five years 14 per cent of men experienced a form of sexual
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Jan McCreal* The #MeToo campaign that has caught the law profession in its net has seen a number of women lawyers – some practising still, some not, who have spoken up about their own experiences in being harassed in the workplace. A report conducted jointly by the TUC and Everyday Sexism found that 52% of women had
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#Metoo campaigner, public lawyer Zoe Lawton has set up another blog to get men to sign on to end harassment in the legal profession. Lawton’s initial blog calling for accounts from lawyers who had experienced harassment and bullying in the legal workplace. She claimed criticism from several quarters of the blog, saying she had been
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Jim Farmer QC has heavily criticised the Law Society’s standards committee for their prosecution of barrister Catriona MacLennan, saying he “earnestly hoped that the Law Society will quickly rein in its National Standards Committee.” Ms MacLennan, who has publicly pronounced that she would ‘not be silenced’ on the matter’, criticised the comments and decision by
The #Metoo campaign has seen high profile and vocal lawyer Olivia Wensley banned by the Law Society from participating in the Society’s panel investigating a raft of sexual harassment complaints from within the profession but says she will continue “calling out the profession” Although Law Society President Kathryn Beck said Ms Wensley would be invited
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