ADVICE TO A NEWLY QUALIFIED LITIGATOR (2): BE LEGALLY STREETWISE : A LITIGATION CLIENT’S STRATEGY MAY POSSIBLY BE TO BLAME YOU
In the second in this series I am reminding everyone of a very useful post from Darlingtons solicitors . I said at the time it was first written that it deserved wider publication, and they kindly agreed I could reproduce it. …
BULLYING AT WORK: HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH IT? CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TWITTER
The earlier post dealt with useful links for dealing with bullying at work. Some people on Twitter also started to contribute. Additional contributions welcome, on Twitter or in the comments section to this blog. Mary Aspinall-Miles A topic that I…
PUTTING AN END TO BULLYING IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION: USEFUL LINKS
I was sad to read a Tweet from a practising barrister earlier today. The barrister tweets anonymously (and thus candidly). They describe a terrible situation of bullying within the legal profession and their decision to “bite back”. This led me…
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG IN LITIGATION (AND ONE DAY THEY WILL)- TELL SOMEONE, HAVE A PLAN, DON’T LIE, AND READ STEVE CORNFORTH’S BLOG
Steve Cornforth’s blog contains a post this week “Why does this keep happening?” He points to, yet another, case of a fee earner ” whose career in in tatters because they have tried to cover up mistakes”. The post contains…
ROBIN BUTCHARD: FRIEND, HUSBAND, FATHER, CRICKETER AND CLERK
Robin (“Rob”) Butchard was the Senior Clerk and Chief Executive at Zenith Chambers for many years. I was saddened to learn of his death yesterday. Here are a few personal words to mark the end of Rob’s remarkable innings. …
LAWYERS, DEADLINES AND PROCRASTINATION: HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH IT? (“A DEADLINE… THAT IS ALL”)
Many of the cases that appear on this blog, particularly those dealing with sanctions and service, arise because things are left to the very last minute. We have looked before at lawyers and procrastination. I thought that perhaps this is…
BEING A LAWYER AND BEING A PARENT: CAN THE TWO BE COMBINED? GUIDANCE FROM OUR FRIENDS ON TWITTER, WELL HERE’S A START AT LEAST
For the next crowd-s0urced advice to the profession we are looking at the difficult combination of lawyerhood and parenthood. How do you combine the two. What practical advice can you offer to those who try to combine practice with parenthood. …
WHAT DO LAWYERS DREAM ABOUT? ODD SHOES, PINK HAIR AND BEING LATE FOR COURT
This post started out of a perfectly amicable tweet from law lecturer extraordinaire Snigdha Nag, wishing everyone taking exams good luck. That led some practitioners to reply that they were still having nightmares about law exams. That then led to…
LAWYERS: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG? MEANINGFUL ADVICE FROM PEOPLE WHO KNOW (AND CARE): WHEN YOU THINK SOMETHING IS HITTING THE FAN
Last night I did a post on using social media to help young lawyers (and some not so young lawyers). Specifically on how it is possible to gather information and advice from around the professions (and indeed around the world)….
“BE KIND TO PEOPLE”: THE (ALMOST) COMPLETE GUIDE FOR ASPIRANT AND NEW LAWYERS FROM TWITTER
Yesterday I set out some of the Advice given on Twitter to those making a start in the legal profession. Here I have most of the posts. The discussion is still going on. There has been a particularly long chain…
POSTS ON STRESS AND LITIGATION: A RECAP: LITIGATION AND LITIGATORS IN A TOUGH WORLD
Comments on the post earlier this evening on dealing with stress have been supportive. This may be a good time to provide a recap of the posts and links already on this blog in relation to lawyers, litigation and stress….
HOW DO LAWYERS RELAX? GUIDANCE AND LINKS: FIND MUGGLES, START SEWING AND DISCONNECT FROM YOUR WORK
This post follows a tweet I received earlier this evening, from “Bunglingbarrister” Bunglingbarrister “Even when I’m not doing work I still think about it often. I don’t think it is healthy to never allow your brain to switch off….
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