Entries by The Glass Hammer

How to Divorce your Man but Keep your Assets

For this Expert Answers column, The Glass Hammer turned to Catherine Costley, Assistant Solicitor in the Family Department of Rooks Rider Solicitors, a top British law firm known for its expertise in Employment Law. Here, Catherine provides her expert opinion to Glass Hammer readers about how to protect your assets in the event of a […]

Book Reviews: The Glass Hammer’s Top Business Books

This week, we at The Glass Hammer are kicking off a new occasional Friday segment where we review and recommend business-oriented books that might be of particular interest to women working in law and finance. Today we review 3 top business books, so keep reading after the jump. Have a top pick yourself? Write in […]

Saving Second Base: Fashion and Finance Party

Saving Second Base, an organization of young professionals committed to raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliated organizations, will be holding a Fashion and Finance Party on Thursday, February 7 at Tailor (525 Broome Street) beginning at 7:00 p.m. The event, which will celebrate Fashion Week and bring together those from the […]

Unraveling of the SocGen Fraud

The news about a massive securities fraud by a rogue trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale, just keeps getting worse. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that the bank didn’t lose the $4.9 billion euros that it first reported, but will actually report losses of over $6 billion euros after unwinding the unhedged […]

Where the Jobs Are For Women in Finance in 2008

Contributed by Gary M. Stern If you listen to news reports about the subprime mortgage mess, you’d think the job market in finance is all gloom and doom. While opportunities in mortgages will be limited for some time, leading executive recruiters and career experts say that jobs are still out there for women in finance […]

Why Women Mean Business

On January 30, 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) hosted a launch party for the new book Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our Next Economic Revolution by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland. The event took place at PwC’s offices at Embankment Place in London, where over 100 guests were invited to attend at talk by […]

LegalTech® New York 2009

Keynote Addresses by: -Christopher J. Olsen, CRM, Systems Engineer, Principal, Lockhead Martin, Chief Records, CIA -John W.Woods, Privacy and information Management Practice Litigation & Intellectual Property Practice, Hunton& Williams Keynote Address: 2-4, 2009 9 am – 10 am Exhibit Hours: February 2-3, 2009 10 am – 5 pm February 4, 2009 10 am – 3 […]