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1. 英国魔法圈律所薪酬大比拼，高伟绅大幅涨薪、将司力达甩在身后。

 

Clifford Chance leaves Slaughters behind with whopping pay rises 

 

Clifford Chance has given pay rises of over £20,000 to some of its associates, with 1PQEs potentially earning £95,000.

 

Trainee salaries are rising, too. First years will be on £43,500, up from £42,000. Second years will be on £49,000, up from £47,300.

 

The firm has adopted the same method of presenting its rises as Linklaters which, as RollOnFriday revealed in March, has decided to wrap up the bonus figure with the salary figure to give a total compensation figure. It makes CC and Links' numbers look very good compared to the rest of the Magic Circle, since Allen & Overy, Freshfields and Slaughter and May state bald salary figures, not inclusive of bonuses. (RollOnFriday)

 

高伟绅将一些律师的薪酬提高了2万英镑以上，而1年工作经验律师的收入可能达到9.5万英镑。

 

实习律师的工资也增长了。实习第一年将从原来的4.2万英镑提高到4.35万英镑；第二年将从4.73万英镑提高到4.9万英镑。

 

根据RollOnFriday网站3月份透露，年利达已经决定将工资金额和奖金金额放到一起，来给出一个总的报酬金额，而现在高伟绅在提高待遇时也采用了同样的方式。由于安理、富尔德和司力达只列出工资金额而不包括奖金金额，使得高伟绅和年利达的待遇数字和魔法圈的其他律所比起来显得非常不错。

 

RollOnFriday整理的数据：

 

 

2. 贝克·麦坚时伦敦负责人Paul Rawlinson成功当选该所全球主席。

 

London head Rawlinson takes chair post at global giant Baker & McKenzie

 

Baker & McKenzie has appointed its first British chairman with London head Paul Rawlinson winning an election to replace current chair Eduardo Leite.

 

Joining the firm in 1986, Rawlinson made partner in 1996 and has served as London head for the past three years. The IP lawyer currently sits on Baker & McKenzie's policy committee and has previously led the firm's global IP practice group for six years from 2004 to 2010.

 

Rawlinson won the role, edging out competition from Latin America chair Claudia Prado, EMEA chair Gary Senior and former Paris managing partner Eric Lasry who also put their names up for the top job.

 

Rawlinson, Senior's successor as London managing partner, played a key role in executing the FTSE strategy after building a strong relationships with the likes of Unilever and British American Tobacco. Baker & McKenzie said a sucessor to the London office head role would be appointed in September.

 

Rawlinson will take up the role on October 23 following the firm's annual meeting in Barcelona, replacing Eduardo Leite who was elected to the role in 2010. When his previous term ended in 2014, Leite had the option to stay on as global chair for between two and four years as there was no opposition. Leite is to step down by the end of October after the first year of his extension saw revenues down 4% to $2.43bn and profits sink 12% to $799m.

 

However under Rawlinson's management, London revenue at the firm rose 9% in the same period to £145m, as the firm's City headcount remained flat. (Legal Business)

 

在美国贝克·麦坚时国际律师事务所的全球主席选举中，该所伦敦地区负责人Paul Rawlinson竞选成功，将替任现在的主席Eduardo Leite，成为该所历史上首个当选的英国人。

 

Rawlinson于1986年加入贝克·麦坚时，在1996年成为合伙人，并在过去三年担任伦敦地区负责人。这名IP律师目前是贝克·麦坚时政策委员会的成员，而此前曾在2004-2010年的六年时间里领导该所的全球IP业务组。

 

拉丁美洲地区主席Claudia Prado、欧洲、中东和北非（EMEA）地区主席Gary Senior和前巴黎管理合伙人Eric Lasry都参与了对全球主席职位的竞争，不过最终Rawlinson险胜。

 

Rawlinson继Senior之后担任伦敦的管理合伙人，通过和联合利华、英美烟草这样的大公司建立牢固的关系，在该所执行富时指数战略上扮演着关键角色。贝克·麦坚时称将会在九月份确定伦敦办公室管理合伙人的新继任人选。

 

在巴塞罗纳的贝克·麦坚时年度会议之后，Rawlinson将于10月23日成为全球主席，替代Eduardo Leite。Leite在2010年被推选为该所全球主席，而到2014年任期届满后，在没有发对意见的情况下，Leite可以选择继续留任2-4年。不过在他任期延长的第一年，贝克·麦坚时的收入下降了4%至24.3亿美元，而利润则下降了12%至7.99亿美元，从而使得Leite将在10月底卸任。而在Rawlinson的管理下，同期伦敦地区的收入在人数没有增加的情况下上升了9%至1.45亿美元。

 

3. 新发现的昆虫物种将以美国最高法院法官金斯伯格来命名。

 

图片拍摄：Alta Oosthuizen

图片来源：The Wall Street Journal

 

New insect species to be named after Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg

 

The late Justice Antonin Scalia has a namesake law school. Now, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a bug.

 

A newly identified species of praying mantis is to be named Ilomantis ginsburgae in honour of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History announced the find on Wednesday after adopting a new method of praying mantis identification which uses close examination of the insect’s female genitalia. The decision to name the species after Justice Ginsburg is in tribute to the 83-year-old jurist’s ‘relentless fight for gender equality’, said a statement from the museum. The neck plate of the Ilomantis ginsburgae also bares resemblance to the decorative jabot often worn by Justice Ginsburg. As for Justice Ginsburg herself, she seemed quite pleased with the unusual tribute on Thursday, drawing parallels to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis: ‘Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find himself changed into a big black bug… Praying mantis, female too, is ever so much more attractive,’ she said.  (Global Legal Post)

 

对已故的美国最高法院安东尼·斯卡利亚法官来说，有一所以他名字命名的法学院（指乔治梅森大学在斯卡利亚去世后将法学院改名为安东尼·斯卡利亚法学院）;而现在对另一名法官鲁斯·巴德·金斯伯格（Ruth Bader Ginsburg）来说，则有了一种以她名字命名的虫子。

 

为了表示对最高法院法官鲁斯·巴德·金斯伯格的敬意，一种最新发现的螳螂将被命名为Ilomantis ginsburgae。克利夫兰自然历史博物馆的科学家采用一种新的螳螂鉴别方法，通过对该昆虫的雌性生殖器进行细致检查，从而获得了此项发现，并于上周三对外宣布。博物馆的声明称，以金斯伯格法官命名该物种的决定，是对这位83岁高龄的法官“为性别平等而矢志不渝的斗争”的致敬。Ilomantis ginsburgae的颈盘也和金斯伯格法官经常佩戴的胸部装饰物相像。

 

而对于金斯伯格法官来说，她看起来对周三这份不寻常的致敬感到非常高兴。她将这和弗朗茨·卡夫卡的《变形记》相提并论，她说“高尔·萨姆沙一天早上醒来，发现他自己变成了一只大黑虫……而螳螂，包括雌性螳螂，也如此更加吸引人。”

 

4. 美国科学家在母猪体内培育人体器官用于移植。

此头怀孕的母猪正携带人猪嵌合胚胎。图片来源：BBC

 

US bid to grow human organs for transplant inside pigs

 

Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.

 

They have injected human stem cells into pig embryos to produce human-pig embryos known as chimeras.

 

The embryos are part of research aimed at overcoming the worldwide shortage of transplant organs.

 

The team from University of California, Davis says they should look and behave like normal pigs except that one organ will be composed of human cells.

 

The human-pig chimeric embryos are being allowed to develop in the sows for 28 days before the pregnancies are terminated and the tissue removed for analysis.

 

But the work is controversial. Last year, the main US medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health, imposed a moratorium on funding such experiments.

 

The main concern is that the human cells might migrate to the developing pig's brain and make it, in some way, more human. (BBC)

 

美国科学家正在尝试在猪体内培植人体器官。他们将人体干细胞注入到猪的胚胎中，来生产人猪胚胎，即所谓的嵌合体（chimeras）。这些胚胎是研究的一部分，该研究是为了克服全球移植器官短缺的问题。

 

来自戴维斯的加利福尼亚大学研究小组表示，这些猪在外观和行为上应该和普通的猪没有什么区别，除了其中一个器官将由人体细胞组成。在母猪妊娠终止和器官组织被移除用于实验之前，这些人猪嵌合胚胎将在母猪体内发育28天。

 

但该项工作具有争议性。2015年，美国主要的医学研究机构国家卫生研究院暂停了对此类实验的资金支持。主要的担心是，人体细胞可能转移到实验母猪的大脑中，从而使得其在某种意义上更加像人。

 

小编觉得，此事事关重大，不管伦理道德如何对待，立法也应有所说法，到时可能不仅仅是平衡人类器官供给和母猪动物权益的问题，还涉及到底是“物格”还是“人格”的问题……

 

而且那些用来培育人体器官的母猪在器官被移除后，估计又被用来宰杀、流入中国、放到餐桌上了，以后吃猪肉时，说不定不小心就吃了一只曾经长着人类器官的猪……

 

5. 四家科技巨头采用新的行为准则来打击网上仇恨言论。

 

Tech giants adopt new code to combat hate speech online

 

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube will take steps to prevent hate speech from spreading online under a new code of conduct agreed in partnership with the European Commission.

 

Under the voluntary code the technology giants will review the majority of requests to remove hate speech in less than 24 hours and to "remove or disable access" to that content if necessary.

 

The companies will have "clear and effective processes to review notifications regarding illegal hate speech on their services so they can remove or disable access to such content" and also produce rules or guidelines that clarify that they "prohibit the promotion of incitement to violence and hateful conduct" by users, according to the code.

 

The code will require the four businesses to have dedicated teams in place to review requests for hate speech to be removed. Those teams will review those requests against their own rules and guidelines as well as, where necessary, legislation designed to combat expressions of racism and xenophobia.

 

The companies will also take steps to "educate and raise awareness with their users about the types of content not permitted under their rules and community guidelines", it said. (out-law.com)

 

根据与欧洲委员会合作而达成的一项新行为准则，Facebook、微软、Twitter和YouTube将采取措施阻止仇恨言论在网上传播。

 

根据该自愿行为准则，这些科技巨头将在收到移除仇恨言论的请求后24小时内对其中大部分进行审查，并在需要的情况下将“移除或禁止查看”仇恨言论内容。

 

根据该准则，这些公司将有“清晰而有效的流程来审查针对其所提供服务上的非法仇恨言论的通知，从而能够移除或禁止查看这些内容”，并制定相应的规则和指引，来澄清他们对用户“禁止推广煽动暴力和仇恨行为”。

 

该准则将要求这四家公司建立专门小组，来审查要求移除仇恨言论的请求。这些小组审查请求的依据将包括他们自己的规则和指引，在必要的情况下还包括旨在打击种族歧视和排外言论的立法。

 

这些公司还将采取措施，来“教育和提高用户的认识，让其知道根据规则和社区指引哪些种类的内容不被允许。”

 

6. 劳尔·卡斯特罗称，古巴将和委内瑞拉站在一起，不会再重新加入美洲国家组织。

 

Cuba will never rejoin OAS over Venezuela row, says Castro

 

Cuban President Raul Castro says the country will not return to the Organization of American States (OAS) in a show of solidarity with Venezuela.
 

OAS Secretary General Luis Almargo has called for sanctions against Venezuela.

 

At a summit of Caribbean countries in Havana, Mr Castro called the OAS "an instrument of imperialist domination".

 

Meanwhile, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has met jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.

 

Cuba was expelled from the OAS in 1962 but following a recent thaw in relations with the US it was suggested that the island might return.

 

But Mr Castro appeared to rule out the possibility, offering "our most firm solidarity to our brothers the Venezuelan people, to the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro". (BBC)

 

古巴总统劳尔·卡斯特罗称，古巴将不会重返美洲国家组织（Organization of American States，OAS），以此表达与委内瑞拉的团结一致。

 

OAS 秘书长Luis Almargo此前已经呼吁对委内瑞拉进行制裁。

 

在哈瓦那的加勒比海国家峰会上，卡斯特罗把OAS称为“帝国主义控制的一个工具”。

 

与此同时，前西班牙首相Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero已经与被监禁的委内瑞拉反对派领袖Leopoldo Lopez进行了会面。

 

1962年，古巴被排出在OAS之外，但随着近期与美国关系的缓和，据称古巴可能重返OAS。

 

但卡斯特罗看起来排除了这种可能性，以提供对“我们的兄弟委内瑞拉人民和尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统的合法政府最坚定的团结支持”。
 

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