Candidates have five days to make a claim and taking a holiday doesn’t count The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published guidance on how to claim for mitigating circumstances in SQE exams as part of a new online resource tool. According to the regulator, the new page aims to assist SQE candidates with the mitigating […]
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Share Monday’s argument in CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. was an odd one: The justices asked no questions at all about the question on which they’d granted review, because the parties agree that the lower court’s answer to that question was incorrect. So almost all of the discussion at the argument focused on what, […]
Biglaw Announces New Office Attendance Policy: Enjoy the commute! Biglaw Firm Looking To Make Sure Gen Z Lawyers Get The Training They Need: Should help flatten out the learning curve for adopting law firm expectations. South Dakota Program Could Replace The Bar: Community service beats studing — bar none! Marco Rubio Clearly Didn’t Want To […]
Some rural states need help recruiting raw numbers of lawyers, but which state — which isn’t even in the top 10 of fewest lawyers total — actually has the fewest lawyers per capita at roughly 20.5 lawyers per 10,000 residents? Hint: The state lost one of its practitioners in a highly bizarre way when he […]
Ed note: This is the fourth in a series. Read the previous installment here. Getty Images Picture yourself as a chef in the grand kitchen of networking. The conference has ended, but the ingredients you’ve gathered —the contacts, the conversations – are fresh and ready to be transformed into something delectable. Like a culinary artist, your task […]
Gibson Dunn’s London office is looking for a “professional support lawyer” to provide “targeted training” and “individual coaching” to junior associates. Fair enough. But the original job listing went further, noting that “more hand-holding/explaining [is] needed for Gen Z/post-lockdown” lawyers. Which earned an edit, but… were they really wrong? Everyone always complains about the next […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The trend won’t slow. It increases firms’ profitability as it ups leverage and typically lengthens the path to equity partnership. You have people who are [between 9 and 11] or 12 years out of law school billing thousands of hours at a high billing […]
Share Just two weeks after the Trump administration designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Mexico will come to the Supreme Court on Tuesday in its effort to hold U.S. gun makers liable for cartel violence committed with U.S.-made weapons. Mexico is seeking billions of dollars from seven major U.S. gun makers and one […]
In just about any practice area, the need to draft multiple documents for a given matter will frequently arise. If you’re a trusts and estates lawyer, you may need to create a will, a power of attorney, and a health care directive simultaneously, for example. In-house counsel may need to revise work arrangements and new […]
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