Lawyer Work-Life Balance
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Meet the househusbands
By Legal Week | August 16, 2010
Ever wonder what laid-off male lawyers with working wives are up to these days? Alexandria Symonds gives us a hint in a recent article in The New York Observer, and although her focus isn't on lawyers per se, it's easy to see how laid-off lawyers would fit the pattern. She calls them "The Problem That Has No Job: a kind of upside-down Mad Men meets Mr Mom where wives and girlfriends are out all day making money while unemployed guys mop floors, cook dinner, and experience all the attendant ennui."
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Seeing (RED) - Freshfields on working with the groundbreaking charity
By Legal Week | August 3, 2010
As intellectual property lawyers, the concept behind (RED) is immediately fascinating - a brand that saves lives. It's a bold claim, but then again this is no ordinary brand. In just four years, (RED) product sales have generated over $150m (£96m) to help improve the lives of more than five million people affected by HIV in Africa. The model that generates these funds is striking in its simplicity. Iconic companies like Apple, Nike, Starbucks, Penguin and Gap produce (RED)-branded products with a portion of the profits going to fight HIV/AIDS. It's an idea that has captured the imagination of millions of consumers and received praise from Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates.
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Willing and able - a disabled trainee on making her own way in the City
By Legal Week | July 28, 2010
Disability has not proved an obstacle to second-year Allen & Overy trainee Arunima Misra - in fact, it has been a useful learning experience for both her and her employers...
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The mothers who'd rather work
By Legal Week | July 28, 2010
"I go to the office to get away from my children." Over lunch, a senior in-house lawyer blithely makes that confession to me. A mother of two who's married to a fund manager, she says she never seriously considered giving up her full-time job. "Are you kidding?" she says. "It would drive me crazy." For all the talk about women facing work/life balance dilemmas, there's a sector of lawyers who are parents and who are giddy (or maybe just relieved) that they have demanding jobs - and who don't feel guilty about it.
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Career launch - how work experience can promote social mobility
By Legal Week | July 21, 2010
Last year, former Labour MP Alan Milburn published a cross-party report analysing social mobility in Britain. He found that our society has become more, not less, socially exclusive in recent years. The report claimed not enough was being done to encourage people from across society into the top professions. Professions like law, journalism and the media were highlighted as not representing society as a whole. Also, the informal system of work experience, so important to getting ahead in a career, was criticised as being biased towards young people whose family or friends may be able to help them access opportunities more readily.
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'The people at Freshfields knew I was trying to write a novel: that spurred me on'
By Legal Week | July 16, 2010
Freshfields associate Jonathan Lee, whose first novel 'Who is Mr Satoshi?' was published this month, on book readings, the Jeremy Kyle show and his fear of being perceived as pretentious....
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The right timing - how legal investors should set their business clock
By Legal Week | July 14, 2010
While the eurozone sovereign bond crisis currently dominates the headlines, an understanding of how asset classes and investment styles perform over different stages in the economic cycle can help limit the damage to a portfolio wrought by market volatility. Specifically, judging when a slowdown becomes contraction and when contraction mutates into recovery will help investors choose the appropriate allocation among asset classes such as bonds, equities or commodities.
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Show me the money - not work/life balance
By Legal Week | July 13, 2010
"I can make your life difficult. On the other hand, I can be helpful." Dialogue from The Godfather? No - it's an actual exchange between two law firm partners that's reported in the latest findings by the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).
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Time to take that unsexy job?
By Legal Week | July 8, 2010
Last week, an article about alternative careers for out-of-work lawyers by a legal headhunter struck a nerve in the legal community. Katherine Frink-Hamlett's article in the New York Law Journal wasn't revolutionary - she suggested that the jobless consider careers in procurement, compliance and law firm administration - but it was practical and sobering.
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The greater good
By Legal Week | July 7, 2010
During the downturn, some deferred associates secured secondments to public interest organisations. Vivia Chen looks at how such placements helped junior lawyers get their careers off on the right foot
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