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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. Search all legal jobs. Surviving and thriving: tips for young lawyers. by RoxanneB | Jun 10, 2021 | Careers Advice The road to becoming a lawyer certainly isn’t a short one.

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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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Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. She stayed there until 1954, when she moved to Germany with her husband, who served as an Army lawyer.

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