Edition 3264: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Legal Article: Leading black women lawyers have spoken about the challenges of succeeding in City law firms, including the problem of acquiring ‘gravitas’, and the fear of being seen as an ‘angry Black woman’. Full story - Legal Futures
Today's Highlighted Video Story: The EU is thought to have lost more than €10 billion to fraud over the last two decades and yet its antifraud and corruption agencies have long lacked the teeth to root out the problem. Could that be about to change? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi, the EU’s first public prosecutor. She has enhanced powers to tackle transnational crime. But if member states refuse to play ball, how can she succeed?
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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- The risk of cyber fraud is a constant worry for law firms, particularly with so many people working from home. However, many firms miss the number one cause of cyber crime―human error | NLJ https://t.co/XCx9KAATJH
- DWF cuts 40 jobs in wave of City redundancies | Law Gazette https://t.co/bhGo2Y3B0Y
- The government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda to redress geographical inequalities must include the justice system, particularly in the Midlands and the North, the Bar Council has said | NLJ https://t.co/10mwCiFv8K
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- ‘Legal profession must accept responsibility’: Witness exposes justice system for mistreatment of sexual assault victims - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/IoG07P42Tu
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- The University of Law has lost the main parts of a trademark case against one of its former law students over the mark ‘UniLaw’ | NLJ https://t.co/HqyeV0tVUc
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