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Law Jobs - Where's It At?

‘Where it’s at’ is not just one of my favourite songs (by Beck incidentally) but is also a var...
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Glass ceiling belongs in the greenhouse


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Large law firms have not been good at creating an environment in whic...
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Making Partner - How Things Are Changing Stateside

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The Declining Fortunes Of Once Fortunate Law Firms

What has the world come to when Cravath, Swaine & Moore has a terrible year? The firm that has serve...
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Playing a key role in the high profile field of foreign investment

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The New Legal Landscape Following Lehman's Failure

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Justice Rhys Harrison's Westpac Decision

Justice Rhys Harrison could excuse himself a moment of wry amusement that it was he - rather than an...
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US Supreme Court Justice Scalia's

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The Hard-Assed Chief Justice's Judgment

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Madoff's Bad Day

Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that...
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Teflon Silvio's Luck Runs Out

For most of his political career Silvio Berlusconi has faced allegations and charges of tax fraud, c...
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Happy Couple? - They're The  Number 1 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorce

Celebrity divorces are always great fodder for the tabloid media – and even us, from time to time....
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Mills v. McCartney – The Full Text

Text of full judgment: Heather Mills v Sir Paul McCartney
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IP Issues
One of the fastest-rising young IP lawyers is also Silicon Valley's most colorful

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The Paul Newman Will

A review of the will and codicil that Paul Newman left when he died in September reveals an 18-page ...
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The Scrabbulous Lawsuit

After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally move...
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How IT Is Transforming Legal Services

By David Curle, Legal Technology. Access to information is a dangerous thing -- to the people who h...
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Taking Your Firm To The Next Level

By Richard A Roth* A simple fact: A law firm is a business. While that business is the practice of...
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Want To Stand Out As A Lawyer?

By Karen Shapiro* Once the freshness of starting a new legal job dissipates, some lawyers can exper...
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Is The Law Firm Model Dead in the Water?

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Kiwi Lawyers and Their Pro Bono Work

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Justice for Wilson - A Barrister's View

James II was king of England between 1685 and 1688. But remarkably in that short time he removed 13 ...
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The Longest Brief

A barrister found guilty of harassment after sending a series of malicious emails to her former boyf...
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From Whangarei Court To London's Silks

Whangarei's legal fraternity has been celebrating the success of a former colleague, David Hislop, w...
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Former Wall Street Lawyer To Give Away His Billions

From The New York Times. When David M. Rubenstein turned 54, he read that white Jewish males were l...
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Civil Litigation in New Zealand

By Saskia Righarts and Shana Fonnesbeck, University of Otago Legal Issues Centre. From the New Zeala...
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Twitter - The Legal Risks


By Andrew Murray - The push publication system used by the micro-blogging site means anything yo...
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Big Changes at Harvard Law School

While Yale Law School recently lost several big-name professors, its rival in Cambridge has been exp...
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Keeping Lady Lawyers - The Canadian Way

The Canadian and American bars have more than language in common. They share some of the same proble...
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Cherie Not Guilty of Misconduct

The Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) has found that Matrix Chambers’ Cherie Booth QC did not c...
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In House Counsel in Europe - Different Rules

Chapman Tripp - Aspirations by European in-house counsel to secure the same recognition as their cou...
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The British High Court has thrown out a defamation claim brought against the Daily Telegraph by tenn...
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Inside India's Legal Outsourcing Machine

Nestled amid the bustle of north Mumbai, the headquarters of Pangea3, one of India’s biggest legal...
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The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project. The book has been on the New York Times bests...
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The problem of partnership

Being a partner no longer means having a say in how the business is run, among other things. Michael...
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The Lawyer Who Could Be King

Adebayo Ogunmeno is a lawyer in Kansas City, Kan., but he is considering a second career: being a k...
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A Q & A With Stephen Franks

Why are you leaving Chapman Tripp?

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Tax Time
Hogan's Heroes - Paul Hogan's Legal Posse

Actor Paul Hogan and his financial adviser Tony Stewart hired more than 20 top lawyers and accountan...
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When banking a cheque does NOT mean full and final acceptance

A recent Rotorua High Court decision gives an insight into how to bank a cheque offered as part but ...
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Top Firms
Seismic Shifts In 'Big Law'

The US legal world has been transformed in the last year, and so has the American Lawyer seventh ann...
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US megafirm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is asking its London lawyers to take a one-year sab...
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Why Did One Of America's Biggest Law Firms Die?

The demise of the 118-year-old Heller Ehrman has left questions about what went wrong. Heller died b...
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An Unhappy Departure - Sydney Law Firm Split

The former managing partner of Gadens in Sydney, Michael Bradley, has left the firm, taking part of ...
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 . . And Here Come The Lady (Barristers) Too

. . And Here Come The Lady (Barristers) Too
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Here Come The Law Society

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