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The mothers who'd rather work
"I go to the office to get away from my children." Over lunch, a senior in-house lawyer blithely makes that confession to me. A mother of two who's married to a fund manager, she says she never seriously considered giving up her full-time job. "Are...
28 Jul 2010 | 15:05 | 4 comments
Letter from Asia: Should US firms build local practices in Hong Kong?
The Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering (IPO), expected to become the world's largest, debuted this week, landing squarely in the middle of a debate over whether leading Wall Street law firms should build local practice capability in ...
23 Jul 2010 | 12:50
Who really won in Goldman's settlement with the SEC?
Legal experts will argue over who got the best deal - Goldman Sachs or the regulators - in the record fraud settlement announced last Thursday (15 July). But one thing seems certain - the investing public didn't. The lawyers at the Securities and E...
19 Jul 2010 | 11:27
Show me the money - not work/life balance
"I can make your life difficult. On the other hand, I can be helpful." Dialogue from The Godfather? No - it's an actual exchange between two law firm partners that's reported in the latest findings by the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) and th...
13 Jul 2010 | 10:44 | 1 comment
Time to take that unsexy job?
Last week, an article about alternative careers for out-of-work lawyers by a legal headhunter struck a nerve in the legal community. Katherine Frink-Hamlett's article in the New York Law Journal wasn't revolutionary - she suggested that the jobless...
08 Jul 2010 | 15:43
Are WASP law firms finally dead?
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman had some very nice things to say about WASPs (in case you weren't aware, that stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and their contribution to diversity in a recent New York Times article. So nice, in fact, that I ...
05 Jul 2010 | 15:12
Dispute resolution choices in the post-crunch world
The credit crisis and associated financial turmoil over the last couple of years has meant that businesses have had to focus increasing attention on grappling with disputes. This has kept dispute resolution lawyers in international law firms in London...
21 Jun 2010 | 17:07
Women opt out of the career fast track
Women seeking work/life balance are getting their faces slapped with cold water these days. Andrews Kurth partner Kathleen Wu, who has led an initiative at her firm to to improve the retention and advancement of women, last week warned in a Texas Lawy...
16 Jun 2010 | 11:22
(Over) dressed for success?
I don't usually write about fashion in the office, because the topic seems too obvious. What's there to discuss when you're talking about dressing for a law firm? But apparently some junior associates are venturing beyond the usual safe harbours an...
11 Jun 2010 | 10:21 | 1 comment
'To preserve and collect' - BP oil spill a discovery nightmare for lawyers
The legal strategies for BP and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have yet to be revealed. But one thing is certain. Their in-house legal departments are in the midst of an expensive and Herculean task - discovery. "All of ...
07 Jun 2010 | 15:03
Pretty enough for this job market?
To the list of insecurities that already plague job applicants (not going to a top law school, failure to make the Law Review, or the inability to get excited by golf), you can now add physical beauty - or the lack thereof. Contrary to what your mothe...
04 Jun 2010 | 15:00
Corporate Counsel's Best Legal Department of 2010 - Microsoft
On 16 December last year Microsoft's legal department settled the company's longest and most expensive antitrust legal battle. In a major concession to European regulators, the software giant agreed to open its Windows operating system to rival Web br...
20 May 2010 | 17:06
He wrote the book on legal thrillers: a Q&A with Presumed Innocent author Scott Turow
Scott Turow put in an average of 2,800 hours yearly as an assistant US Attorney while he was writing Presumed Innocent, his 1987 best-seller. To finish the book, Turow wrote during his morning commute. "I wrote 26 or 28 minutes a day. It doesn't sound...
05 May 2010 | 16:53
The right staff: key choices for legal process outsourcing
Even before the economic crash, law departments were looking at ways to do more with less, as general counsel faced increasing pressure to reduce costs and achieve a predictable legal spend.However, the financial meltdown has led to more radical chang...
01 May 2010 | 12:03
Data protection - why more powers are needed to protect privacy
This month's amendments to the Data Protection Act have attempted to address important deficiencies in legislation; they give the Information Commissioner the power to carry out compulsory inspections of government departments and the power to fine da...
22 Apr 2010 | 12:39
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