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Provincial NZ Law Firm Offers $25000 To Attract Lawyers – It Worked Before, Why Not Now?

Legal Careers, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / February 6, 2018

Law firms seeking lawyers to work in the provinces are taking aggressive steps to recruit staff, with reports that one law firm is offering new solicitors up to $25,000 cash deposit for a house to attract quality staff. A Hasting-based law firm has made the offer, with the advertisement looking for a senior and junior

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2 Maori Women Who Used Their Law Degrees Via Different Paths To Reach The Same Employer

Legal Careers, New Zealand Law News / February 5, 2018

Two women lawyers, both Maori, have wound up working for the same company after taking entirely separate routes to their current jobs: One a varied and more circuitous journey and one a more traditional one. Both demonstrate the opportunities that exist for women lawyers notwithstanding the obstacles that confront many in the profession. VUW Law

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3 Things Judge Judy Can Teach Women Lawyers

BigLaw, Legal Careers, Rankings / January 18, 2018

Sandra Mahoney* I deal daily with women in the law who make the oft-heard complaint about the lack of fairness and parity with their male colleagues in the law. One – in fact three, things – that struck a chord with me was comments made by the highest paid lawyer in the country, Judy Sheindlin,

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6 Non-Traditional Career Paths For Lawyers

BigLaw, Legal Careers / January 11, 2018

Whether you have just graduated, or you have been practicing law for many years, you may find yourself wondering where you want to be in a few years’ time. After all, a law degree is extremely versatile, and open doors to an impressive array of potential career paths. Yet competition is fierce. In fact,

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Why I Don’t Want A Partnership: The Millennial Change in Law Firm Career Aspirations

Legal Careers / January 10, 2018

Rachel Howard* Making partner – especially making partner in a Big Law outfit – is the holy grail for many who enter the hallowed halls of such places. Or is it? An increasing number of lawyers appear to be rejecting the ambitious route towards wealth, prestige and power, in favor of other things – like

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Being a Mom And an Attorney: How To Meet The Challenge To Be A Successful Working Mom Lawyer

Legal Careers / December 25, 2017

Barbara Bowden* – Only about a third of all attorneys are female— and that number is hard-won, as in this typically male-dominated world, women have worked hard to carve their niche. A bit of history regarding women in the law profession: In 1868, Mary E. Magoon opened her own law office in Iowa, although

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7 Key Tips for Millennials in Law Job Interviews

Featured, Legal Careers / December 4, 2017

7 Key Tips for Millennials in Law Job Interviews

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The Personal Payoff For a Young Kiwi Lawyer Passing the ‘Tortuous’ California Bar Exam

Featured, Legal Careers / November 19, 2017

Clerking for a Supreme Court Justice to working on Death Row are career extremes even for a young lawyer just embarking on his legal career, but the California Bar is “pure torture” but for this young lawyer there was also a personal payoff too. But for kiwi lawyer Andrew Row one of the seminal moments

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Were You Influenced to Become a Lawyer by Elle Woods?

BigLaw, Legal Careers / November 15, 2017

Reece Witherspoon’s portrayal of Elle Woods, the sorority girl who became a Harvard Law student, has reportedly lead to hundreds – nay, thousands – of women becoming law students (or at least going to law school). We know this because she told Wall Street Journal in an article, saying: “At least once a week I have

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One Third of Law Student Regret Taking the Degree Study Shows

BigLaw, Legal Careers / November 2, 2017

A UK study has found that one-third of law students regret taking their degree and even more found that the degree was not value for money. The Student Academic Experience Survey had asked over 14,000 undergraduate students in the UK : ‘If you knew what you know now, would you have chosen another course?’, resulting in

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