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The One, Simple Piece of Career Advice From Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What’s the best career advice you could receive? Better still, what’s the best advice you can actually use to advance your career satisfactorily? A recent article in  Business Inside with Microsoft boss Satya Nadella saw the software giant’s boss pay credit to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and his best-selling book, Mindset, which Nadella saw as helping to

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LSE’s Fake News Tort Exam Featuring “Donald” and “Nigel”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Exams can be tough enough without tedious fact situations, but London’s School of Economics (LSE) has once again become somewhat controversial by presenting a ‘fact situation’ for a tort test that features individuals named “Donald” (as in you-know-who) and “Nigel” (as in Farange). The LSE exam for first year law students’ tort exam. Law

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The Law Revue Cheaters: Why Above the Law Awards No-One (Yet)

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Law students cheat? Surely not.  Particularly to win a ‘virtual trophy’ for a Law Review Video competition. But no, that was the case outlined in a strongly-worded missive on AbovetheLaw by publisher David Lat, who wrote that the stats for alleged visitors and votes for the competition were revealed as being falsified – ie

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Stress Levels of Young Lawyers Hit Red Line Alert Level

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Stress and over work at record level for junior lawyers in the UK, a new survey show. A survey shows that over 90 per cent of young lawyers say they are under stress or pressure from work and more than half of those surveyed said they feel unable to work either regularly or occasionally

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The Lawyer Who Dumped Constitutional Law for Highly Paid ‘Courtesan’ Career

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The lawyer you’re doubtless looking at is not your usual constitutional lawyer.  Indeed Claudia de Marchi, 34, is no longer a constitutional lawyer, having changing her law job for a brand new one that earns her more and counters the pervasive male domination of the law profession:  She’s a paid ‘courtesan’. de Marchi, who

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The 4 Major Obstacles STILL Facing Women in the Legal Profession

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Women-in-law and the issues they face is a bugbear for the legal profession and continues to bug women lawyers – with good reason. Inequality and a lack of access to partnership is a continuing problem for many in the profession. According to data published by the American Bar Association’s Market Research Department in April 2016,

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The 10 Things That Still Make the Difference to Your Career After All These Years

We liked the point made in an article on Mashable by Alexandra Levit where she outlined the 10 pieces of career advice that remain as true today as they were in 1996. Levit points out that personal relationships, even in an age of major social media networks, are still as important as ever in terms

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