– New Zealand Law Society initiatives The regulatory working group points out that sex discrimination and sexual objectification of women lawyers has taken place in the New Zealand legal profession since at least the 1950s. In a national survey in 1992, 38% of women lawyers reported sexual harassment. More recently, there have been widely publicised
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Dorsey & Whitney – The legal world is abuzz with talk of disruption from various “legaltech” software companies, but disruption actually happens all the time in law firms (both big and small). New problems crop up, requiring new expertise. New attorneys start doing deals or litigating cases, bringing different experience and different problems to solve. The
Littler.com – In this day and age, virtually every service provider has adopted some form of technology to assist clients and customers. Why should the delivery of legal services be any different? Scott Rechtschaffen, Chief Knowledge Officer at Littler Mendelson, and Kevin Mulcahy, Vice President of Education and Community Programs at Neota Logic, recently served
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Chicago – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce the names of its newly elected partners, listed below by office and area of practice. These individuals will formally become partners in the firm effective January 1, 2019. “We are incredibly proud to welcome each of these highly talented lawyers to the partnership,” said Mike Schmidtberger, chair of Sidley’s
Three in Shareholder Activism Practice; Two in Litigation Practice; One in Real Estate Law Practice; One in Corporate/Securities Law Practice NEW YORK, December 13, 2018 – Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, one of the premier mid-sized law firms in the country, today announced that six lawyers have been promoted to partner and one lawyer has been promoted to
ATLANTA – John Koenig has been elected managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Atlanta office, effective November 5, 2018. Koenig succeeds Stuart Johnson, a veteran corporate and transactional attorney who joined the firm to open the Atlanta office in 2009. Johnson will return to the full-time practice of law, in which he advises middle market
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Slaughter and May advised the Arsenal Football Club on the battery storage project with Pivot Power at Emirates Stadium. The project is one of the largest of its kind at any sports ground in the world, and is capable of powering the 60,000-seat stadium for an entire match.
FinanceAsia has named Davis Polk “Best Law Firm” as part of its 2018 Achievement Awards. The awards recognize the most impressive deals across Asia from the past year and the organizations that make them happen. Davis Polk was also recognized in the capital markets space, receiving “Best Investment Grade Bond” for our involvement in ChemChina’s $6.4 billion equivalent six-tranche
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By MAS The ways that cyberbullying occurs are diverse: calling people offensive names online, posting embarrassing content (including photos and videos), discrediting or posting false information, ostracism and exclusion, stalking or harassing via phone or web, impersonating someone, sexually harassing, threatening and intimidating. Over the last 10 years these hazards of our online environment have
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David Weavers, Banking and Finance, Auckland David is a home-grown talent, beginning his career at Russell McVeagh before basing himself in London with New York firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and then in Hong Kong with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Returning to the firm last year, he advises financial institutions, private equity
