Women in the Law – Page 44
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OpinionTop-ranking partners must lead from the front
In another 100 years, gender equality must be a given rather than a conversation. But change has to come from the top.
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OpinionWomen do not need authority to achieve
The idea that women need to be empowered is patronising and implies inequality of power.
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NewsInternational Women's Day: is partnership a postcode lottery?
Thousands of women lawyers reveal what is holding them back at work in landmark Law Society research. One factor is where they live.
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OpinionIf we leave women to correct gender inequality, it will take forever
Men calling out gender inequality is welcome and essential.
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NewsLawyers drawing up NDAs could be breaking the law, MPs told
Academic tells select committee that some solicitors ‘out of kilter’ with professional duties.
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NewsTravers Smith operations chief moves to head KPMG legal services arm
Legal Operations & Transformation Services now runs in four countries.
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OpinionMoments in history
Marking the conclusion of LGBT+ history month, Alison Stanley reflects on some of the watershed moments in legal developments affecting LGBT+ rights.
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NewsCompensation boost for crime victims who lived with attacker
Ministry of Justice lays down statutory instrument to scrap 'same-roof' rule.
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NewsJudge ignores family commitment pleas to demand application
Criminal bar chief says representative bodies will draft their own protocol for reasonable working hours if they have to.
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FeatureConduct unbecoming
What has changed since the #MeToo movement reached the legal profession? Eduardo Reyes reflects on a turbulent year for allegations, high-profile departures – and resistance to change
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NewsReporting harassment incidents and outcomes should be mandatory, urges lawyer
Managing director of Didlaw says harassment should be taken into same ’name and shame’ territory as gender pay regulations.
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NewsBar confident it can overcome ‘testosterone overdose’
Representative body says it has a number of initiatives to support women.
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OpinionFeminist interpretation of taking instructions
Developing a different approach when taking instructions and presenting cases may create new outcomes and precedents.
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NewsRenewed call for quotas to help women become equity partners
Founder of groundbreaking project says too many senior women are promoted but have no voting power.
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NewsJudicial diversity? It's up to law firms, says lord chief justice
Lord Burnett asks what more needs to be done to create 'a properly diverse profession at its senior levels'.
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ProfileTaking control
An unquenchable drive is in Janet Legrand’s DNA. This catapulted the Woman Lawyer of the Year 2018 to the helm of global firm DLA Piper and into the heart of international dispute resolution, writes Jonathan Rayner
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ProfileHigh Atlantic
Susan Bright, managing partner of Hogan Lovells in London, tells why partnerships are not like corporates and how she likes nothing better than a blank sheet of paper.
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ProfileInterview: Sandie Okoro
How can a lawyer help end world poverty and spread the benefits of economic growth? It starts with remembering to make your bed, World Bank general counsel Sandie Okoro tells Eduardo Reyes.
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ProfileInterview: Linda Woolley
Kingsley Napley’s ‘non-posh’ managing partner doesn’t rate people by rank. Perhaps that’s why it’s judged a great place to work.