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Mayer Brown NextGen supports International Women’s Day by celebrating women’s achievements, calling out gender bias and inequality

Today, it feels like there is an expectation that the new consumer products we buy are cleaner than Anthony Kiedis fresh out of rehab and have received Greta Thunberg’s personal seal of approval.  Even whilst working from home, I’m surrounded by products that are screaming

What is personal brand? Personal brand is how you promote yourself and what differentiates you from others in the market. One of the many things this pandemic has thrown into focus is the importance of virtual communication and networking. Your network has a tangible benefit

In the last part of this series we looked at how to start your professional network. At the end we looked at how to filter every new contact you meet into a shortlist by asking yourself two very selective questions: Could they potentially be useful

In the first part of this blog we looked at some simple changes everyone can make to improve the way they engage with the easiest source of identifying new work, their colleagues. In part two we’re going to take the next steps and look at

There is nothing that can persuade someone that something has happened quite like a video recording. After all, the camera never lies - right? Well, what if this was wrong and what if we couldn’t always trust our eyes and ears? What are deepfakes? Deepfakes

I’m not going to tell you things have changed or how different they’ve become; we all know where we are.  What I would say (and I’ll admit I’ve pinched this shamelessly from a recent interview with an ex-Premier League manager) is that life is 10%

British Olympic diver Leon Taylor talks about wellness as a foundation for all those in a high pressure environment. In March 2019, Leon Taylor, a former British Olympic medallist presented at NextGen’s second speaker event this time focussing on wellness. High performing workplaces invariably create

Barrister and entrepreneur, Priya Lakhani, was our first speaker when NextGen launched in 2018. She was a fitting choice given her varied and successful career path that began as a barrister and has encompassed everything from a catering business, a charitable enterprise and now the