A&O counsel role boost for flexible workers
The opportunity to steer her legal career along a non-traditional path has been a positive experience for Allen & Overy (A&O) counsel Victoria Wells.
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Shearman production team faces redundancy
Revealed: lawyers' dirtiest habits
A&O freezes associate salaries
Clifford Chance ups salaries to match rivals
Travers partnership promotions halved
Why getting down with the kids could reap dividends on the diversity front
Two lawyers from Addleshaw Goddard stood before a room full of inner-city state school Year 12 students and asked them whether they were still undecided about whether to apply to university or not.
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Eversheds supports office with green bras
Judges named for The Lawyer Awards 2008
US top 50's £46.8bn haul makes 2007 the best year ever
The top 50 US firms last year generated a total of $46.8bn (£23.4bn) in revenue - an increase of more than 16 per cent on the 2006 total of $40.27bn (£20.14bn).
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A&O freezes associate salaries
Ashurst turnover up 17 per cent
Freshfields ups associate salaries by 2 per cent
Freeth Cartwright first to show off financials
Traditional law firms need to embrace technology to survive
Your average consumer could be forgiven for thinking that the technology revolution has largely passed the legal profession by.
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Eversheds gets e1m integration boost
Reuters GC to become intelligence business CEO
DLA Piper launches Facebook for trainees
Thomas Miller to slash advisers via e-tracking
Wilberforce hit by email fraudsters
Join the discussion on the latest series of the Apprentice from a legal (and sometimes not so legal) perspective. One reader says:
"Surely such discriminatory behaviour would not betolerated in the boardroom or, indeed, on the job at all."Read more »
Readers are also keenly discussing the recent OFT bank charges ruling. One reader writes:
"Does it not seem strange that the judge has decided that thecharges are not penalties at common law?"
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