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Gay-Friendly Law Firm Wins Top Place Among UK?s Top 100

Posted on January 09, 2008
Gay pride is not something we hear a huge amount about these days with lawyers, notwithstanding the occasional lawsuits (like Cravath’s faced last year).  However Pinsent Masons, the UK lawyers, are positively bursting with gay pride at being named by gay rights group Stonewall as the most ‘gay friendly’ lawyers in the UK, as announced [...

Law Jobs For Charity - Giving Lawyers At Christmas

Posted on January 07, 2008
Lawyers may not enjoy the best of reputations among the non-legal public, but to give them their due they probably do more than many professions in terms of not only pro bono work, but also outright charity.  Tales abound of law firms that make charitable donations or organize charity at Christmas time in particular...

Women In Law - What Should Law Firms Be Doing To Keep Them

Posted on January 04, 2008
The JD BLiss blog discussed the launch of a new website for the Bowditch Institute for Women’s Success, announced by Lauren Stiller Rickleen who, for those who don’t know, is the author of Ending the Gauntlet which identifies the numerous roadblocks confronting women in law firms...

Law Blog Winners At The ABA Journal Awards

Posted on January 03, 2008
America’s most popular blawg (according to the drones at the ABA Journal) is QuizLaw, an entertaining take on legal developments, written by bi-coastal lawyers with inside and usually amusingly informative views on the law.  The final vote went down to Overlawyered and QuizLaw with the latter taking the title after a variety of what they term [...

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Landing the Legal Job You Want - How hard can that really be?

Posted on January 03, 2008
We read an entry in the “Law & More” blog about recent goings-on from the Wall Street Journal and US News & World Report about the latter’s law school rankings and their rele/irrelevance to those seeking a decent legal job...

2008 And Legal Jobs Ahead - How Tight Will It Be?

Posted on December 29, 2007
International upheaval following the Bhutto assasination, Mid-East issues, rising oil prices, the sub-prime crisis - what does all this mean for legal jobs in the year ahead?  We preduct (and the end-of-year prediction is as, well, predictable as the new year hangover) that times will get tougher for a lot of firms and the good [...

Why Are Lawyers So Depressed? Can It Be Just Legal Jobs?

Posted on December 27, 2007
An interesting note in the WSJ Law Blog dealt recently with the “D” word as it applies to lawyers.  Christmas is a tough time for many - loneliness, a sense of worthlessness and who knows what else? - but can these apply at this or any other time to highly paid attorneys? It’s a major issue, [...

Legal Job Lawsuit Seeks Redress For Religious Discrimination

Posted on December 26, 2007
Discrimination lawsuits have become more prevalent in the legal profession as the legal environment becomes both more competitive and also lawyers become more assertive over their rights, be they age, sex or, in the case of a former Allen & Overy associate, religious...

Facebook for Lawyers - The Whys and Wherefores Explained

Posted on December 23, 2007
We’ve written before about Facebook and lawyers and the various issues arising there, but an interesting post on the Between Lawyers blog refers readers to a blog post from Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy in the Kennedy-Mighell Report where the authors provide a podcast on lawyers’ use of Facebook...

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