National’s new leader has a background in Crown prosecution behind him, but started legal life working for Kensington Swan before moving to Tauranga and handling prosecution work. He obtained his law degree from the University of Auckland, completing a BA (Political Science and History) and a LLB (Hons), as well as receiving a senior law …
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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, …
Law practitioners aren’t immune from the drive to seek change once in awhile. People quite often discover that their career path isn’t working out anymore. Some don’t start feeling this way until they’ve been working for 20 years. Some people realize it before they graduate. Either way, your schooling and your experience isn’t wasted. If …
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The ‘squiggly line’ move towards a successful career is something suggested by a multimillionaire former lawyer and by top QC Miriam Dean. Ms Dean is the woman lawyer who was Russell McVeagh’s first woman partner, heading the firm’s litigation department and helping set the firm’s increased pace of elevating women. But for the woman who …
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Law School ‘newbies’ are faced with a range of issues and downright fears when it comes to determining whether they have made the right choice about going to law school in the first place, let alone graduating and embarking on a whole new career and life. But fortunately Renwei Chung, AbovetheLaw’s ‘Diversity Columnist’ made a …
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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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LawFuel.com – Mortgage companies are usually constantly changing and also maintaining the idea difficult for a common person to maintain tempo using interest levels, mortgage plans, terminology and also choices for mortgage brokers. Making use of just about any mortgage broker can easily significantly be useful within replacing the same with odds to experience a …
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NEW YORK (June 25, 2009) – LawFuel.com – Incisive Media today launched a new career Web site focused on job opportunities and career management in public interest law. The site, publicinterestlawjobs.com, is a sibling to Incisive’s popular lawjobs.com and features a variety of tools and content for both public interest law organizations and jobseekers interested …
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LawFuel – Legal Jobs Online – Kiwi lawyer Maria Alcalde used to work for Russell McVeagh in Auckland before embarking on her ‘OE’ and working for US legal giant WilmerHale in London. LawFuel.co.nz, the online legal jobs board carries an interview with Maria where she talks about her experiences working in London and the value …
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