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CMS overhauls UK parental leave policy to let lawyers and staff stay home for longer

Firm scraps claw back provision for non-returners as it bids to encourage women to come back after longer periods of maternity leave
3 minute read

International Edition

CMS overhauls UK parental leave policy to let lawyers and staff stay home for longer

Firm scraps claw back provision for non-returners as it bids to encourage women to come back after longer periods of maternity leave
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Three County Attorneys, Three South Florida Women Expounding on the Road to Success

The county attorneys in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties offer career guidance for women in law.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Activism and Board Diversity

In their Corporate Governance column, David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh write: With the evidence for board diversity very much in the public domain, the behavior of hedge fund activists seeking board representation has been somewhat puzzling. Hedge fund activism has been notably counterproductive in terms of gender diversity on public boards.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Asian American Bar Commends Trailblazer

The Asian-American Bar Association of New York honored Randall Eng, Presiding Justice of Second Department, with the 2017 Norman Lau Kee Trailblazer Award at the association's eighth annual fall conference at the Fordham University School of Law on Saturday.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Rundle Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has been the county's top prosecutor since 1993 and has an array of firsts to her name.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Hunton & Williams Partner Believes in Early Resolutions, Education, Giving Back

Juan Enjamio, Hunton & Williams' Miami managing partner, found value and success in keeping employment issues out of court to "make for a better place to work."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Rewritten Rules of Power Dressing

While the "Power Suit" was the uniform of choice for a generation of independent, career-minded women who fought for a "seat at the table," the modern woman must cast off the chains of patriarchal fashion and embrace the styles sported by her contemporaries. Assuming a masculine facade is an antiquated expectation of the modern woman, who can be both a member of the Bar and a Vogue subscriber.
16 minute read

Legaltech News

Nixon Peabody's On-Site Incubator a Boost for LGBT Entrepreneurs

Nixon Peabody has donated 2,300 square feet of its 16th floor San Francisco office and partnered with StartOut, a nonprofit LGBT business accelerator, to launch the StartOut Growth Lab.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lessons I've Learned as a Young Woman Lawyer

Lauren Weinstein of MoloLamken writes: We're taught in law school to advocate—for our clients, for justice, for what's right. We shouldn't forget to use our talents to help ourselves, and the women who will come after us, too.
12 minute read

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