It’s gender talk time again for law firms – not that the issue every truly disappeared from the partners’ table. However it’s interest, as Fortune Magazine have reported, that Big Law’s Orrick Herrington – the same people who handled the high profile Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit for Kleiner Perkins, explained why they overhauled their […]
An intricate neo-Nazi plot has involved a Jewish Melbourne lawyer in a nasty ISIL threat and a swirling controversy over his alleged claims for genocide for Palestinians has been revealed. The odd twist of events involved Australian neo-Nazis who wrote in an online forum about “all out war” against ISIL and the lawyer, Josh Bornstein,
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Anyone for a law firm shoot? As in smart pictures, celebrity endorsements and anything else that can make your law firm site truly shine? Well, we’ve had all of that with a lot of law firms but now a firm from Russia has surely taken the cake. The website has the partners and staffers posing
Amal Clooney is never one to avoid the spotlight, be it her marriage, her social life or her lawyering. This time, fresh from the NY Met social event its takng on former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath as someone involving in the authorising the torture of detainees in Northern Ireland in a controversial case
Ned Gannon, is Co-Founder and CEO, eBrevia, a startup commercializing artificial intelligence technology. This commentary was first published by Bloomberg BNA Today, lawyers are inundated with documents and data, and artificial intelligence is the best hope for managing and analyzing this information onslaught. In particular, machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence that trains software
Shah Peerally is an attorney licensed in California practicing immigration law and debt settlement. The law group has office in Newark and San Francisco California. Shah has featured as an expert legal analyst for many TV networks such as CNN, NPR, NDTV, Times Now and Sitarree TV. San Francisco, CA – The Shah Peerally
(AUSTIN) May 5, 2015 – Locke Lord Chair Jerry Clements (pictured center) has been named the 2015 Baylor Lawyer of the Year by the Baylor Law Alumni Association for her distinguished professional career and service to the community. Clements is the first woman to receive this honor in the 53-year history of the recognition program,
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The issues confronting women lawyers and how they can reconcile their work with family life, quite apart from work-life balance generally, was an issue covered in a recent article in the NY Times about a new firm set up by two women who have no permanent offices, take afternoons off for school events and experiment
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LawFuel.com – Mr. Ryan to lead firm’s global Antitrust & Competition practice in fast-growing DC office Washington DC, 4 May 2015 – Mayer Brown announced today that Mark W. Ryan has rejoined the firm as a partner in Washington DC, where he will lead the firm’s global Antitrust & Competition practice. Previously, he was the
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Jennifer Jaff, a Connecticut lawyer who suffered from Crohn’s disease became a significant voice representing those with chronic diseases. She died aged 55. When her illness meant that she could no longer work in her law practice, she founded and became director of Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness in 2005. In her practice, she
