Jim Farmer QC is a voice worth listening to beyond just the courtroom. His occasional blog offerings provide sage advice on everything from the state of the law to legal lifestyle issues. His latest offering relates to lawyers handling pro bono work as an aid to their legal lifestyle and general obligation to provide service
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At this year’s second annual Pro Bono Awards, Davis Polk recognized eight associates for their commitment to and performance of high-quality pro bono work through charitable donations to be made in their honor. We are pleased to present this year’s honorees and acknowledge their outstanding pro bono achievements. First Place: Kevin Osowski – Kevin has
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The leading law firm has been named winner of ‘Best Gender Diversity Initiative by National Firm’ at last night’s IFLR Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards, held in Hong Kong. Russell McVeagh senior partner and board member Sarah Armstrong said the award highlights the firm’s success in implementing and supporting diversity
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Sarah Goulbourne, co-founder of successful law firm GunnerCooke, has 10 rules for being a happy lawyer. Happy lawyers are; fun, charismatic, considered and trustworthy; are you? Many lawyers I have met say they are unhappy because of their career choice. They are overworked, under-appreciated and disillusioned with their profession. Unhappy lawyers have fallen out of
So how about this for a law firm business plan? – no time sheets, no traditional partner structure, full profit-sharing . . and an objective to be one of the fastest growing law firms in the UK. For Sarah Goulbourne, who started her legal shakeup in a Costa Coffee shop at the age of 45
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Excel Dryer, Inc. notched a complete victory at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in an action to prevent the importation of knockoffs of Excel’s revolutionary XLERATOR® hand dryer. Excel is a family owned and operated American company that developed and manufactures the American-made product—the XLERATOR® hand dryer—from its production facility near Springfield, Massachusetts. Excel
Lance Goddard* I read a lot of law firm practice descriptions. Occasionally I come across one that is well written, client focused, and concise, a useful overview of what the firm does, and how its lawyers help their clients. Most, however, miss the mark. Most do a poor job of selling legal services. Most of
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London, 7th November 2017 – LexisNexis UK (www.lexisnexis.co.uk), a leading provider of content and technology solutions, has launched LexisPSL Energy, the UK legal market’s first online module dedicated to lawyers advising in the context of the energy sector. The groundbreaking Energy module is part of LexisPSL’s wider strategy to provide lawyers with guidance arranged by
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Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICHOLAS MITSAKOS was sentenced today to 30 months in prison on charges of conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his operation of a purported hedge fund called Matrix Capital. MITSAKOS pled guilty on
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Appleby, the ‘Paradise Papers’ law firm behind the latest tax papers hack involving 13.4 million papers, is an amount calculated to be around $US10 trillion. Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned in the hack are politicians, celebrities like Bono (left), business leaders and include Queen Elizabeth, the President of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos; and the U.S.
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