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Awards for lawyers

28 May 2015
Issue: 7654 / Categories: Legal News
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A new award for women lawyers has been announced. WeAreTheCity.com, a website for professional women in the UK, is launching a national awards programme, the WATC Top 50 Rising Stars Awards for 2015. It will include an award for women in the law. Nominations open on 1 June. Voting opens to the public on 20 July. Meanwhile, entries are open until 5 June for the Halsbury Legal Awards 2015, in partnership with NLJ, which will take place on 16 September.

Issue: 7654 / Categories: Legal News
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
Peter Kandler’s honorary KC marks long-overdue recognition of a man who helped prise open a closed legal world. In NLJ this week, Roger Smith, columnist and former director of JUSTICE, traces how Kandler founded the UK’s first law centre in 1970, challenging a profession that was largely seen as 'fixers for the rich and apologists for criminals'
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
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