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duaneodavila · 5 years

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Ranking The Best Biglaw Firms For Gender Equality

From partnership promotions to attaining leadership roles, women in Biglaw continue to lag behind their male colleagues when it comes to equity in the ranks of their firms. A new survey aims to close that gender gap by examining the Biglaw workplace policies that could have caused it in the first place.

This week, the Diversity Lab, an incubator for diversity and inclusion in the law, and ChIPs, a nonprofit organization focused on advancing and connecting women in technology, law, and policy, released the first-ever Inclusion Blueprint, a survey that ranked Biglaw firms based on their policies for inclusion and advancement of women.

Here’s more from Big Law Business on the methodology:

Diversity Lab CEO Caren Ulrich Stacy, who designed the survey, which was mostly issued to Am Law 200 firms, said its purpose is to interrupt structures and unconscious biases that keep women out of leadership positions.

For example, the survey asked firms whether they track partners’ non-billable office work to make sure it’s equitably distributed across genders.

It also asked firms whether they’ve conducted a pay equity analysis in the past five years, and whether they’ve taken steps to fix any gender pay gaps they found.

The Inclusion Blueprint, while geared toward Biglaw firms as a whole, focused on their IP practice groups, which are known for being a wasteland for women in terms of gender balance. The survey was sent to 59 law firms but only 35 submitted responses, which is a bit disappointing. That said, here are the top 10 firms for gender equity based on their own policies. Did your firm make the top 10 list?

Brooks Kushman

Sheppard Mullin

Baker Botts

Dechert

Goodwin Procter

Morrison & Foerster

Perkins Coie

Reed Smith

Taft Stettinius & Hollister

White & Case

Congratulations to all of the firms that made the list. Gender equity in Biglaw is important, and these are the firms actually seem to care about it.

New Survey Rates Big Law Policies to Build Gender Equality [Big Law Business]

Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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nishantwap · 6 years

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World Cup: Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak asks FIFA to support Peru's Paolo Guerrero after cocaine ban

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World Cup: Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak asks FIFA to support Peru's Paolo Guerrero after cocaine ban

Updated May 22, 2018 15:12:16

Photo: Mile Jedinak, along with the France and Denmark captains, has asked FIFA to “show compassion”. (AAP: David Moir)

Related Story: Maclaren misses out as Socceroos’ World Cup squad cut to 26

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Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak has co-signed a letter urging world football’s governing body to find a way for Peru captain Paolo Guerrero — currently under a drug suspension — to play in the tournament next month.

Key points:

Australia, France and Denmark captains say it would be “plainly wrong” to exclude Guerrero

FIFA asked to temporarily lift suspension to let Guerrero play in World Cup

Guerrero tested positive for a banned substance last October

The captains of two other countries also set to play Peru at the World Cup, France’s Hugo Lloris and Denmark’s Simon Kjaer, signed the letter to FIFA seeking a temporary lifting of Guerrero’s suspension.

Guerrero tested positive for a banned substance after Peru’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina last October and was initially suspended for 12 months.

The ban was later reduced to six months, allowing the 34-year-old forward to return to his Brazilian club Flamengo to prepare for the World Cup.

But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency, last week extended the suspension to 14 months, effectively sidelining Guerrero for Peru’s first World Cup tournament in 36 years.

In the letter to FIFA, the Australia, France and Denmark captains asked the FIFA Council to “show compassion” and said it would be “plainly wrong” to exclude Guerrero on the basis of the findings that the Peru captain did not intent to cheat and that the substance was not performance-enhancing.

‘Everyone agrees’ Guerrero didn’t cheat, letter says

Guerrero tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, but lawyers argued the stimulant did not enhance his performance and was accidentally consumed in contaminated tea.

The CAS said its panel accepted those arguments as factual.

“As such, we turn to the FIFA Council and kindly put forward an urgent request for clemency by asking the FIFA Council to temporarily interrupt the ban imposed on Paolo Guerrero during the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, with the suspension to recommence at the conclusion of Peru’s participation in the competition,” the captains wrote in the letter released by the players’ union.

Photo: Peru’s captain Paolo Guerrero has been banned for testing positive for cocaine. (AP/Keystone: Jean-Christophe Bott)

“We believe that in the interest of fairness and proportionality, and taking into consideration the exceptional circumstances of the present matter, Paolo who — as everyone agrees did not cheat — should be able to participate with, and against, his fellow professionals in the FIFA World Cup.

“We strongly believe that a temporary interruption would be the equitable and rightful solution.”

Peru President Martin Vizcarra has asked the Government and Peru’s ambassador to Switzerland to be ready to help Guerrero challenge his ban at the Swiss Supreme Court.

Guerrero can ask federal judges to study the ruling by the Swiss-based CAS, which banned him until January.

The Swiss Federal Tribunal can intervene if the legal process was abused.

It could give an interim order before Peru’s World Cup program starts on June 16 against Denmark.

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soccer,

socceroos,

doping-in-sports,

australia,

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Pioneering Digital Wallet and Personal Data Marketplace metâme to Launch ICO Token Sale

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Pioneering Digital Wallet and Personal Data Marketplace metâme to Launch ICO Token Sale

(Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/651036/metame_Clean_Dirty_Data.jpg )

It is estimated that by 2020 personal data will be worth €1trillion in Europe alone. Personal data is a valuable asset, and currently individuals neither own or control their identity or data. There are a number of challenges surrounding personal data, and with the introduction of GDPR on May 25 2018, companies will have to change the way they collect, share and use customer information.

To address the issues of creating a unit of trade for personal data, converting personal data into a tangibly owned asset and ethically incentivising identifiability when GDRP calls for anonymity (by default), TheInternet.Foundation (http://theinternet.foundation) and metâme Labs Ltd is introducing metâme (http://metame.co/) and the mPod Protocol (http://metame.co/#page6).

metâme will potentially be the world’s first crypto-complete wallet and universal personal data marketplace. It will help build online communities by paying individuals to share metâpods (or mPods).

The metâme ‘Clean Data’ marketplace can help transform many industries and markets. For example, recent hacks in the mobility sphere upon major companies would be prevented by the metâpod protocol, due to the data storage not being in any single place. The metâme marketplace can also benefit industries like video gaming, wellness, financial services and help businesses remain GDPR compliant when selling to customers.

mPods (http://metame.co) are Smart Assets™, which are a new convergence of Smart Contracts and Digital Assets that enable the creation of secure packages of personal data. They are tiny information objects that may be sold, traded and used to share personal data with businesses in exchange for money. mPods are designed to be the unit of trade for personal data within marketplaces of the crypto economy, and are to data what cryptocurrencies are to money.

More than simply a container of data, mPods are non-fungible, crypto-information assets that use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to allow precise data to be isolated and encrypted based on an entity’s intent. They may be owned, shared and traded contextually and privately in exchange for Krypto Koins (http://metame.co/#page8). Krypto Koins will be the tokens which power the metâme platform. metâme will be the first wallet to enable universal data assets, mPods and crypto currency assets to be stored and exchanged in a standardised and universal manner.

For businesses, mPods offer a highly targeted approach to accessing consumer groups, where brands can exchange Krypto Koins for mPods within a ‘Clean Data’ marketplace and access anonymous, pseudonymous and identifiable information about individuals as appropriate, through an equitable exchange of value. Additionally, mPods allow participants to earn token rewards through loyalty schemes when selling their data or when buying products and services from metâme’s marketplace. For companies and businesses, mPods will optimise personalisation, direct selling and loyalty while facilitating GDPR compliance.

The mPod Protocol has an excellent team of experts and advisors. It is led by IBM consultant, future hacker, fintech and crypto-economy theorist and business founder and CEO Dele Atanda (http://metame.co ). Dele has led digital innovations for some of the world’s biggest brands and has developed enterprise digital solutions for FTSE 10 and Fortune 100 companies that have become the gold standard for engagement within their sectors. Metâme Labs Ltd and TheInternet.Foundation is supported by skilled Enterprise Architect Shyam Duraiswami and leading blockchain technology advisor Peter Bidewell.

Additionally, a number of partners have joined the metâme ICO team. These include crypto-economy specialists Crypto Oracle (https://www.cryptooracle.io), leading providers of commercial legal services Capital Law (http://capital-law.co.uk), international law firm Baker Botts LLP (http://www.bakerbotts.com) and Swiss law firm Bratschi Wiederkehr & Buob AG (https://www.bratschi.ch/en.html).

In 2013, Dele Atanda (http://metame.co) created TheInternet.Foundation, (The IF), as a charitable unincorporated association (http://theinternet.foundation), calling for the implementation of a Universal Declaration of Digital Rights – which is to be ratified by the United Nations and to serve as a natural extension of Human Rights. The organisation is now being formalized as a Swiss, non-profit, non-government organisation driving for the responsible use of personal data globally and the benefits it can bring. It is encouraging the protection of personal data because when it is misused it can bring about severe threats. The IF is calling for a ‘Clean Data’ ecosystem underpinned by privacy, ownership and consent analogous to Clean Energy as opposed to the ‘Dirty Data’ ecosystem of surveillance capitalism.

Dele Atanda said, “I see this paradigm of surveillance capitalism as a ‘Dirty Data Economy’, analogous to the Dirty Energy Economy. This is where the practice of amassing vast oceans of personal data through ethically questionable means, without people’s knowledge or consent and locking it away inside digital fiefdoms that corral, exploit and manipulate people through their information causes social and environmental harm which is greater than the business or social benefit it generates.

“At the heart of the digital and data economy is the question of personal data as personal property and mPods will revolutionise the digital sphere making ‘Clean Data’ a tangible asset that people can own. Our system will allow people to easily understand how sensitive their information is, and how careful they need to be with it. The status of an mPod will be able to show if the information submitted by an individual has no identity information, some identity information or confidential information they should keep safe. The more sensitive the information and the more identifiable it makes the data owner, the more valuable this is to companies.”

metâme is currently running a private pre-seed sale that will run through Sunday March 18. Commencement of the ICO pre-sale is planned for Sunday May 18 with a minimum soft-cap of $10million and funds fueling the platform’s development. The public token sale will begin in the fourth quarter of 2018 with the sale scheduled to complete in December. Hard cap estimates for the ICO will be published after the May pre-sale completes. Interest in the ICO can be registered on the metâme website (http://metame.co/).

Links

metâme website: http://metame.co

TheInternet.Foundation: http://theinternet.foundation

metâme Whitepaper: http://metame.co/wp-content/themes/metame/images/metame_white.pdf

metâme Telegram: https://t.me/metamovement

metâme YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcuKD_TNBKwht0xUdVArJRA/featured

metâme LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metâme/

metâme Twitter: https://twitter.com/metameHQ

metâme medium: =”https://medium.com/@info_90708″ rel=”nofollow”>https://medium.com/@info_90708

metâme alpha product access: http://metame.co/#page11

About Dele Atanda

Dele Atanda is a digital visionary and entrepreneur. Dele is a long-standing advocate of digital human rights, a cyber expert, a Fintech and crypto-economy theorist and an advocate of using technology to form a more compassionate, empathetic and human centered world. Supporting this is his belief that data – and in particular the ethical use of personal data, can transform society and revolutionize the world.

Dele is a celebrated innovator having led digital for some of the world’s biggest brands and built enterprise solutions for FTSE 10 and Fortune 100 companies that have become the gold standards for engagement within their sectors. He leads IBM’s iX Automotive, Aerospace and Defence practice as Chief Digital Officer. He is a renowned thought leader on digital culture, and has been a pioneering voice on the emergence of web 3.0 technologies and their impact on society most notably with his best-selling Digitterian Tsunami: Web 3.0 and the Rise of the N.E.O Citizen published in 2013.

Dele Atanda is available for interview and high-resolution images are available on request. Media information provided by Famous Publicity.

For more information, or if you would like to speak with Dele Atanda please contact Adam Betteridge at [email protected], Ed Patience at [email protected] , Josh Balmer at [email protected] or Tina Fotherby at [email protected]

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