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The People That Make Us: A Photoshoot with Clifford Chance
By Law.com International | November 1, 2024
This week, Law.com International is featuring photos and interviews with junior talent across Clifford Chance's U.K. corporate team, as part of a series to showcase the teams behind the scenes.
7 minute read
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Taylor Wessing Germany Ups Associate and Salaried Partner Pay
By Jennifer Spatz | October 30, 2024
The move brings Germany pay closer to UK levels, where in August the firm lifted newly-qualified lawyer salaries to £115,000.
2 minute read
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Are More Canadian Lawyers Bailing on Big Law to Found Their Own Firms?
By Gail J. Cohen | October 28, 2024
Many of this year's new law firm founders are women, who say they were driven by a desire for greater autonomy, flexibility, and the ability to pursue visions they felt were constrained in traditional law firm structures.
4 minute read
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The People That Make Us: A Photoshoot at Bird & Bird
By Law.com International | October 24, 2024
For its latest series, Law.com International is featuring photos and interviews with junior talent across a variety of firms to showcase the teams behind the scenes.
5 minute read
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It's Time Law Firms Were Upfront About Who Their Salaried Partners Are
By Krishnan Nair | October 20, 2024
Clients are paying more attention to who is doing the work they're getting billed for; yet the salaried partner tier endures, writes The Global Lawyer.
4 minute read
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Singapore's Chief Justice Urges Firms To Build Sustainable Workplaces to Retain Young Talent
By Kasvi Sehgal | September 24, 2024
Recent data pins poor work-life balance, workplace culture and excessive workload as the key factors influencing young lawyers in the city-state to exit firms or legal practice altogether.
2 minute read
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Hiring in the Middle East is Both Easy and Hard
By Dario Sabaghi | September 9, 2024
While regional tax incentives remain a draw for international candidates, policies requiring a specific percentage of Saudi nationals are intensifying law firms' battle to hire the best local candidates.
7 minute read
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Law Firms Struggled with Gen Z, Now Prepare for Gen Alpha
By Krishnan Nair | September 8, 2024
The next generation of recruits, due to enter the workforce in the coming few years, bring all sorts of new challenges for law firms—the Global Lawyer asks if you are ready.
6 minute read
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Partners Are From Mars, Associates Are From Venus
By Gavin Sharpe | September 6, 2024
The real war for talent is an inter-generational divide within law firms.
7 minute read
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Slaughter and May Fast-Tracks Pay Review to Match £150K NQ Benchmark
By Louis Altmann | September 4, 2024
The firm brought forward its pay review, originally scheduled to happen in November.
2 minute read
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The Importance of Judicial Elections
By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board | January 30, 2025
The members of the Young Lawyer Editorial Board hope that this article will provide a “judicial elections refresher” to our fellow attorneys so that we all may be well-informed voters and continue to educate and empower our friends, family and colleagues to exercise our constitutional right to vote.
1 minute read
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How a Paul Weiss Associate’s Career Took Off With Help From a Social Mobility Alliance
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 17, 2025
"I still remember arriving in London wearing my 20 quid suit," says private equity associate Arun Sohan-Pall, who launched his career with help from The PRIME alliance.
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Building an Ownership Mindset as a Gen Z Junior Associate
By Rachael Bosch and Dareth Finn | January 17, 2025
Many junior lawyers find themselves struggling with the more fluid expectations of legal practice. While most genuinely want to succeed, they seem to be missing opportunities to take ownership of their work and development, instead waiting for explicit instructions or treating assignments as isolated tasks rather than chances to grow.
1 minute read
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Young Lawyers: 5 Ways We Could Manage Our Time Better in 2025
By Zach Agate | January 2, 2025
I want to improve my time management in 2025, and I have a feeling you might as well. After doing some research into best time management practices for attorneys, here are five ways we as attorneys could manage our time better in 2025.
1 minute read
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New Year’s Resolutions from the Young Lawyer Editorial Board
By Young Lawyer Editorial Board | December 26, 2024
No matter what end of the love-hate spectrum you may fall when it comes to New Year’s resolution, there is no disputing that we all could be a little better personally and professionally if we focused on goals such as these.
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My Second Year of Practice in Review
By Stephanie Rodriguez | December 18, 2024
This year has been a whirlwind of lessons, growth and occasional coffee-fueled late nights, from perfecting the fine art of contemporaneous time entry to building meaningful relationships with colleagues.
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A Tech-Enabled Approach to Professional Development Is the Path Forward for Young Lawyers
By Michael Iles | December 12, 2024
While fears of an army of robotic attorneys replacing us at the courthouse or earning and keeping our clients’ trust are almost certainly premature, as legal professionals, it still may feel overwhelming to keep up with technological changes. This is a driving force behind the importance of lawyers engaging in continuous professional development, mentoring, and long-term succession planning.
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Holy Grail: Can Changing Big Law Recruiting, Hiring and Training Lead to Greater Retention?
By Bryan Parker and Damien Atkins | December 11, 2024
Hiring 100 lawyers per year means a $100 million investment; by year 2.5, you are still trying to recoup its investment, but with 30-50% fewer lawyers.
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Mastering the Art of Client Management
By Young Lawyer Editorial Board | December 5, 2024
Effective client management does not only include your knowledge of the law. It includes how you communicate with your client, helping to set reasonable expectations, and gaining your client's trust.
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Meet the Finalists: The American Lawyer's Young Lawyers of The Year
By ALM Staff | November 13, 2024
Meet the The American Lawyer's 2024 Young Lawyer of the Year finalists.
1 minute read
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