{"id":3338,"date":"2017-05-17T13:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2017-05-23T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:06:08","slug":"rising-star-law-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/rising-star-law-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Law Award | Shortlisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have\u00a0been shortlisted for a Rising Star Law Award. Whilst I am sure I won&#8217;t win, I would love your vote. If you just want to vote then click <a href=\"https:\/\/risingstars.wearethecity.com\/rising-stars-shortlist-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, select &#8220;law&#8221; in the drop down and then my name, Rebecca Morgan.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Rising Star Law Award<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Rising Star Awards (something I had not really heard about before) acknowledge people who they deem are\u00a0doing amazing things in their sector. \u00a0I am named\u00a0alongside some remarkable women in the legal sector (which is an honour in itself). \u00a0Please check out everyone that has been\u00a0nominated in the legal shortlist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/risingstars.wearethecity.com\/rising-stars-shortlist-2017\/law-the-lynne-freeman-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsoring the law award is\u00a0Reed Smith LLP, and it\u00a0is in memory of the remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/risingstars.wearethecity.com\/memory-lynne-freeman-rising-stars-law\/\">Lynne Freeman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t\u00a0quite believe it. Not\u00a0only have I been nominated by someone, but I have\u00a0been shortlisted by a panel of judges.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The process of the Rising Star Law Award<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So as mentioned above, I had never heard of the Rising Star Awards. \u00a0I had however heard of We Are The City and the work that they do.<\/p>\n<p>Quite few months\u00a0ago I received an email from We Are The City\/Rising Star saying someone had nominated me for an award in the legal sector. \u00a0I filled\u00a0out a form with some more information and had to wait to see if the\u00a0judges would\u00a0shortlist me.<\/p>\n<p>As always\u00a0I never\u00a0expect to be shortlisted, and I am still shocked someone has taken the time to nominate me. Then on Monday, I was walking around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Justice Museum<\/a> in Nottingham (being a law geek) and my phone notifications\u00a0went crazy.<\/p>\n<p>It was\u00a0via twitter that I realised I had\u00a0been shortlisted for the law awards. \u00a0There is a public vote for some of it and I would appreciate your support.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vote for me in the Rising Star Law Award <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you would like to vote for me (before the 9th June 2017) then follow these simple instructions. \u00a0Click this <a href=\"https:\/\/risingstars.wearethecity.com\/rising-stars-shortlist-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>,\u00a0fill in your details, select law from the dropdown and then my name, Rebecca Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all so much for your ongoing support with my blog, but also the votes for these awards. I never expect to win these things, but really appreciate you voting for me. \u00a0Please do share with friends and family, or on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have\u00a0been shortlisted for a Rising Star Law Award. Whilst I am sure I won&#8217;t win, I would love your vote. If you just want to vote then click here, select &#8220;law&#8221; in the drop down and then my name, Rebecca Morgan. Rising Star Law Award The Rising Star Awards (something I had not really heard about before) acknowledge people who they deem are\u00a0doing amazing things in their sector. \u00a0I am named\u00a0alongside some remarkable women in the legal sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[19,213,214],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"default","automationSources":{"useContentSentences":true,"useSocialTemplates":true,"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}