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Before you brush this off based on its title, it isn’t what you think. This is not a generic article telling you not to be cocky or not to be the stereotypical arrogant lawyer from the movies. This is about the way that humility manifests in various attributes that benefit you and improve your overall work experience. Sometimes, being driven involves more humility than confidence, because you have to be willing to “hustle” and network, and it can be humbling to try and fail and have to try again.
The 2008 crash humbled a lot of people, one of whom was Julie Honour. She had just been accepted at a great law firm, only to be made redundant on her first day, left alone in a city where she had bills to pay. She felt incredibly vulnerable but ultimately made the decision to embrace that vulnerability. She started telling everyone that she was looking for a job while speaking about the value that she could add. It took relentless determination which she called “scrappin
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a dramatic effect on immigration law, disrupting policies that were already shaken up by the Trump Administration during its first three years. Practitioners who advise on immigration law now must keep up with changes wrought by the pandemic as well as near-daily immigration news from the Biden Administration.
For the previous Administration, “COVID created the opportunity to significantly curtail legal immigration,” says immigration law expert Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Chairman of the Executive Committee at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, & Loewy, LLP and co-author of
PLI Chronicle, Fragomen outlines the immigration actions taken by the Biden Administration in its early days and anticipates changes to come.
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Paul McLeary on April 12, 2021 at 6:01 AM
F-35 production line
WASHINGTON: Faced with a massive spike in Chinese companies burrowing into the US defense manufacturing base, a new Pentagon effort has approved more than $311 million in potential partnerships between US venture capital firms and small tech firms since January in an attempt to keep Chinese money and influence out.
In recent years, Chinese investment in small US tech and manufacturing firms has increased by a staggering 420% according to one analysis, an avalanche of money that could directly impact national security if that spigot were turned off in a time of crisis.