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Neil Gerrard: Misunderstood rainmaker? Or, as a lawyer in proceedings against Gerrard described him, nothing more than a “bent copper”? Deputy editor @KrishnanNair5 explores. law.com/international-editio…
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Clifford Chance New York white collar partner exits for US Department of Justice bit.ly/2idG2Sz
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Is Social Media Complicit in War Crimes Against Armenians? ift.tt/3jFQz7z
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Mishcon in Eddie Hearn's corner on $1bn transatlantic boxing broadcasting deal legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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Join us and @BBCBreakfast's @BBCNaga (Naga Munchetty) as she chairs the UK legal event of the year, #LegalWeekConnect.
Learn More: bit.ly/2hXY3nB Register: bit.ly/2zKc4Qg
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Identify Growing Practice Areas: It's important for #lawstudents to discover a #career path within a growing sector. Using data from our own legal lobs platform, legalweekjobs.com , here are 5 Trending Practice Areas from 2017: bit.ly/2CdKWaB
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Revealed: The Law Firms With The Most Female Equity Partners ift.tt/3iN6O1J
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How a QC and His Six Pandemic Puppies Became Twitter Stars ift.tt/3zH2YyX
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African Law Firm of the Year - Large Practice: Congratulations to Anjarwalla & Khanna #AfricanLegalAwards
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Winner of African Law Firm of the Year (Large Practice) is... @Bowmans_Law! That makes four awards for Bowmans tonight #AfricanLegalAwards
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Tunde Okewale of Doughty Street Chambers awarded MBE for "services to the community and disadvantaged young people"
Congratulations to our founder @UrbnLawyer for being awarded an MBE in 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list
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The UK Law Firm of the Year award goes to... @Shoosmiths, after a hugely successful 2014-15 financial year #BritishLegalAwards
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This year’s Law.com International’s Editors Choice Award goes to a truly remarkable individual, who has strived in the face of real adversity to make improvements to the legal industry. Congratulations, Fred Banning! #BritishLegalAwards
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And the winner of Law Firm of the Year is... @CMS_law! #BritishLegalAwards
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Winner of the Environmental & Renewables Team of the Year is... @Aluko_Oyebode! #AfricanLegalAwards
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We're back, with the Private Client Team of the Year award. @BDB_Law is highly commended... the winner is @irwinmitchell #britishlegalawards
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Legal Community Voices Concern as Hong Kong Bars Foreign Lawyers on National Security Cases ift.tt/DNRXkyj
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The #BritishLegalAwards Law Firm of the Year is @PinsentMasons. "Impressive growth, sector focus – they ticked all the boxes" said one judge
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Why 'replacing posh boys with posh girls' won't solve law's diversity problem legalweek.com/2018/06/25/why…
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The first award of the afternoon is the Outstanding Innovator Award. And the winner is .... @juliasalasky, founder of @CrowdJustice! #LegalInnovationAwards
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How to make sure your contract means what you want it to mean: a @HSFlegal guide to download from @Legal_Week_Law legalweeklaw.com/abstract/co…
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Top female lawyers at @BCLPlaw, @HoganLovells, @lathamwatkins, @DLA_Piper, @traverssmith and @CMS_law share their advice on how younger women can work their way up through the ranks law.com/legal-week/2019/06/0…
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Over 2500 Students Enrol On Linklaters Digital Internship law.com/legal-week/2019/07/1…
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Competition and Regulatory Team of the Year: Webber Wentzel; highly commended - Werksmans #AfricanLegalAwards
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The winner is... @WigginLLP, which has founded its own company to help clients identify counterfeit sales online #LegalInnovationAwards
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Winner of the CCASA Lifetime Achievement Award is... Justice Edwin Cameron, who judges said has strived to improve access to justice for poor and marginalised communities in South Africa by providing free legal services and education for three decades #AfricanLegalAwards
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Find out how can upgrade your #legal #career and make you standout from the crowd goo.gl/FXvL7q #legaljobs
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Winner of CSR, Diversity, Transformation and Economic Empowerment Award is... @webberwentzel! #AfricanLegalAwards
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And finally, International Law Firm of the Year is awarded to... Baker McKenzie #AfricanLegalAwards
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Uber GC calls on clients to support law firm diversity push by sending more work to female lawyers bit.ly/2dIAsZh
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Innovation Award (law firm) goes to Anjarwalla & Khanna; Highly commended: Baker McKenzie #AfricanLegalAwards
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Employment Law Team of the Year: Hogan Lovells - Highly commended - Webber Wentzel #AfricanLegalAwards
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Winner of Best Use of Technology is... Addleshaws @AGinsight, @CMS_law and @sainsburys! #BritishLegalAwards
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.@LawCareLtd CEO @elizrimmer calls on the legal industry to take part in a survey about workplace culture in order to bring about change.
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The Environment & Renewables Team of the Year is... @Aluko_Oyebode #AfricanLegalAwards
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Winner of the Banking, Finance and Restructuring Team of the Year is... @webberwentzel / @LinklatersLLP! #AfricanLegalAwards
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To coincide with #InternationalWomensDay, this week we're publishing a series of opinion pieces by high-profile female law firm partners
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Junior female partners from @slaughterandmay, @LinklatersLLP, @HSFlegal and @PinsentMasons on the mentors who helped them make the step up legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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The Independent Law Firm of the Year winner has shown evidence of its commitment to diversity and social inclusion as well as to the environment, having achieved carbon neutral status in 2020. Congratulations to Brabners! #BritishLegalAwards
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Why Specialist Law Firms Are Well Suited For This Time of Crisis ift.tt/2VQvRab
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Pinsents' Former Comms Head and Campaigner, Fred Banning, Dies ift.tt/0GeZ5hz
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Winner of M&A team of the Year is... Anjarwalla & Khanna! #AfricanLegalAwards
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Irwin Mitchell Opens Second Thames Valley Office law.com/legal-week/2019/07/3…
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This #InternationalWomensDay, we've launched our inaugural Female Rising Stars list! Here are the top 25 female lawyers in the U.K. legal industry aged under 40 💫 tinyurl.com/4cenwwkf
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Five awards to go - next, Chambers Innovation. @serjeantsinn is highly commended, and the winner is... @hardwickelaw #LegalInnovationAwards
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Winner of TMT Team of the Year is... @Bowmans_Law! It’s three awards apiece for Bowmans and @ENSlaw #AfricanLegalAwards
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Next, we reveal this year's Chambers of the Year - @QuadrantLaw is highly commended, and the award goes to... @HardwickeLaw #BritishLegalAwards
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Mishcon Hands Lawyers, Staff Unlimited Remote and Flexible Working ift.tt/3aQK0fi
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Lawyers offer services to Grenfell Tower fire victims as partners predict lengthy legal fallout bit.ly/2s8ow7p
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.@LawCareLtd's CEO @elizrimmer says the legal sector has weathered the COVID storm financially, but asks at what cost to the people who work in it?
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RPC, Hogan Lovells and Allen & Overy's Morley among big winners at #BritishLegalAwards 2015 legalweek.com/legal-week/new…
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Last week, the seven-year-old daughter of @ObeliskSupport CEO @ddenissmith stepped up in front of a crowd of 750 at the #BritishLegalAwards to give a speech about her mother’s charity, @First100years. Here is what she had to say: law.com/legal-week/sites/leg…
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The Times reports that Baroness Hale will become the UK's first female Supreme Court president
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Bond Dickinson to combine with US alliance partner Womble Carlyle bit.ly/2shDlCQ
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Winner of African Network/Alliance of the Year is... @alnafrica! #AfricanLegalAwards
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Our final award of the night is the Legal Week Award for Excellence in Leadership. The winner is…Andrew Leaitherland at @DWF_Law. #BritishLegalAwards
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Improve gender diversity or we won't use you - senior in-house lawyers warn law firms to up their game - @RoseOMWalker reports from #LegalWeekCONNECT law.com/legal-week/sites/leg…
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And the winner of the IP Team of the Year: Webber Wentzel #AfricanLegalAwards
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Winner of Attorney of the Year (partner) is... Moray Hathorn @webberwentzel! #AfricanLegalAwards
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TMT Team of the Year award goes to... Bowmans - Highly commended: Simmons & Simmons #AfricanLegalAwards
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Ambitions to become a sports lawyer? @SeanLawInSport offers his top ten career tips (via @LawInSport) legalweek.com/legal-week/blo…
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The award for Best Use of Technology, sponsored by @FulcrumGT, goes to @Mishcon_de_Reya, with @ReedSmithLLP and @Setfordslegal both highly commended #BritishLegalAwards
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'He supported my case for partnership when I was pregnant' - DLA Piper's UK managing partner Sandra Wallace on being mentored by the firm's new senior partner Andrew Darwin #IWD2018 legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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The CSR Innovation winners are @AllenOvery, @DLA_Piper and @CCLCUK, for a pro bono project helping children in need #LegalInnovationAwards
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Last week we announced the #BritishLegalAwards 2018 shortlists - congrats to all the nominees, including the seven Law Firm of the Year contenders: @CMS_law, @DLA_Piper, @MacfarlanesLLP, @traverssmith, @CC_UK_PR, @Fieldfisher and @ESgloballaw law.com/legal-week/2018/10/0…
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Simmons & Simmons invites lawyers to pitch for time off from fee-earning to work on innovative new ideas legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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As chosen by GCs: the best law firms for diversity law.com/legal-week/2019/02/1…
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Congratulations to LW head of intelligence James who completed the @LondonMarathon in 4hrs 19 mins! We are very proud of your efforts all in aid of @EmbraceCVOC #LondonMarathon18 @ALMMedia
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"Retire? Sit in my rocking chair and wait to die? Absolutely not" - 104-year-old US lawyer dies after 80-year legal career
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Half of London's biggest law firms believe artificial intelligence tech will lead to job cuts legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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Morgan McKinley hires new UK head of legal as Brexit demand grows law.com/legal-week/2019/02/1…
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Cooley, Dentons and Pinsent Masons among big winners at Legal Week Innovation Awards #LegalInnovationAwards legalweek.com/legal-week/new…
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Winner of African Law Firm of the Year (Small Practice) is... Manokore Attorneys @ZimCounsel! #AfricanLegalAwards
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The next award is CSR/Diversity Initiative of the Year. The winner is...@CAPSTICKSLLP #BritishLegalAwards
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In the M&A Team of the Year (Medium-Sized Deal) category, @SimmonsLLP and @WhiteCase are highly commended, with the honours going to @PinsentMasons #BritishLegalAwards
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Award number 11 already! Property Team of the Year is…@Pinsent_Masons! #BritishLegalAwards
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"Lawyers are inclined to dress up their automation as innovation" - @richardsusskind profiled by @CarmanDominic legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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Winner of Property and Construction Team of the Year is... @Bowmans_Law in what is their second win of the evening! #AfricanLegalAwards
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The first award for TMT and Life Sciences Team of the Year goes to...@Pinsent_Masons! #BritishLegalAwards
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And Partner of the Year - Male is... Kenneth Muhangi at @kta_law #AfricanLegalAwards
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Winner of the Legal Week Innovation Awards Rising Star Innovation Award is .... @kerry_westland head of innovation and legal technology at @AGinsight! #LegalWeekInnovationAwards
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"If a woman can successfully run Europe’s biggest economy, then why not one of Europe’s biggest law firms?" nitter.app/CarmanDominic/status/6…
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"There is no lack of talent in the black legal community and stating otherwise supports the systemic bias which paralyses the diversity and inclusion initiatives in the legal industry," @BSNofficial says in an open letter to law firm leaders. ow.ly/89pv50AeDnr
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The award for Commercial Team of the Year goes to @eversheds, with @MacRoberts highly commended #britishlegalawards
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Unlike some who predict AI will mean the end of lawyers, @AndrewArruda thinks it “will make humans more human” legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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Linklaters Elects Aedamar Comiskey As First Ever Female Senior Partner ift.tt/2RMbqMd
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We’re gearing up for tomorrow’s #LegalInnovationAwards Finalists include @HoganLovells, @PinsentMasons, @DLA_Piper, @ashurst and @dentons
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"I’ve had firms turn up to pitch with a team entirely made up of men dressed in suits" - @notonthehighst general counsel Kate Burns on fixing the law firm-client disconnect law.com/legal-week/2018/11/0…
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Winner of the Legal Week Innovation Award for Business Development Innovation is .... @FootAnstey! #LegalWeekInnovationAwards
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DLA Piper leads legal bid to overturn ban on women inheriting seats in House of Lords legalweek.com/2018/07/17/dla…
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The Private Practice Rising Star winner is... Onyeka Ojogbo from @Centurion_Law #AfricanLegalAwards
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Good luck to the seven nominees for Law Firm of the Year at the #BritishLegalAwards tonight: @CC_UK_PR, @CMS_law, @DLA_Piper, @ESgloballaw, @Fieldfisher @MacfarlanesLLP and @traverssmith law.com/legal-week/2018/11/2…
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Independence doesn't mean going it alone: smaller contenders hold their own against globalisation bit.ly/2plaWt8
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The award for Knowledge Management Innovation goes to @NLawGlobal, for a 'big data' project tracking court trends #LegalInnovationAwards
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Will the rise of artificial intelligence lead to more job cuts at law firms? legalweek.com/sites/legalwee…
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