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A day in the life at a legal technology firm

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As an award-winning legal data consulting firm within the fintech and legaltech sector, I was particularly excited to have this opportunity with D2LT. As I said at the outset, I didn’t take the traditional route of university, to LPC paid for by a law firm, to a training contract. The art of concentration.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new memoir, a snapshot of relentless optimism and grit

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Many years later, as a young attorney who had held a prestigious clerkship on the Supreme Court, older partners at the law firm where she worked would assume that she was a legal secretary and “inquire pleasantly how long I had been with the firm and which of his colleagues I assisted.”

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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Also like Ginsburg, O’Connor was unable to find work at a law firm even though she was at the top of her class and an editor of the law review. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. The couple returned to the United States in 1957.

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