The announcement today by the Court of Appeal that it has resolved to encourage greater participation of junior counsel in hearings is an important and significant step that will increase the opportunities for both male and female junior counsel to gain experience and help to build a stronger and more diverse body of advocates. “We
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Technology law firm Simmonds Stewart has launched its techlaw intern programme in conjunction with the University of Auckland Law School. The programme offers law students paid intern positions at companies in the high-growth tech sector. The aim is to provide law students interested in technology and entrepreneurship with real-world experience in the tech sector. Initially,
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Allens has been named number one law firm in GradAustralia’s Top 100 Graduate Employers, announced last week in Sydney. The comprehensive survey of more than 14,000 university students nominated Allens as the most appealing law firm as a first employer. Allens was also the only law firm to be named among the top 75 graduate
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The growing issue of sexual harassment in the legal workplace has lead to a young lawyers’ editorial commentary in the US, as the #MeToo awareness now sweeps the legal world. The unique power structures within law firms have helped foster abuses of that power, including in sexual harassment. American Lawyer’s new Young Lawyers Editorial Board
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JD Supra Perspectives – Properly written client stories on your lawyer biography can be wonderful and engaging testimonies of your skills, dedication, commitment to clients and to the law. That can’t happen if you post wordy, over-detailed accounts of client work. The best matter summaries are short, snappy, stories that describe the ways you have
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On February 28, 2018, Eko Devices, a leader in acoustic cardiac monitoring, announced that it closed $5 million in Series A funding to grow its commercial team and to expand clinical studies on the use of its platform for valvular heart disease screening and heart failure monitoring. ARTIS Ventures led the round, with additional participation
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Wilmer Hale – The Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (Nos. 16-476, 16-477) will have profound implications for sports betting in the United States and will potentially open the door to such betting in tribal casinos across the country. The case presents New Jersey’s challenge to the constitutionality of the
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LOS ANGELES – A lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department was taken into custody this morning on federal charges related to the illegal sale of approximately 100 firearms. Vasken Kenneth Gourdikian, 48, of Sierra Madre, who is currently on administrative leave, self-surrendered this morning to federal authorities. Gourdikian was named by a federal grand jury
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – March 1, 2018 – Margaret (Maggie) Hanrahan, a shareholder in the Charlotte office of Ogletree Deakins, has been named co-chair of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group. Hanrahan will serve alongside Patrick Hulla, who has chaired the group for more than a decade. Hanrahan has practiced employment law since 2004, spending the
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The New Zealand Law Society says a proposed requirement for lawyer certification in the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill will likely result in an increase in conveyancing costs for home buyers. A key proposed change will require certification from anyone doing conveyancing work for a purchaser, that the purchaser will not contravene the Overseas Investment Act
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