USEFUL LINKS: SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS (WELLBEING AND HEALTH)
Continuing with the series on useful links, here we look at links to help with health and wellbeing. MENTAL HEALTH SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity and has been around since 1923. They have a page dedicated…
USEFUL LINKS: SUPPORT FOR LAWYERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS (BECAUSE LAWYERS ARE PEOPLE TOO…)
The third in the series on useful links. Here we look at help and guidance for lawyers. GENERAL GUIDANCE The Law Society offers advice and updates on Coronavirus for the legal profession, including advice for: employers firm owners, managing partners and…
WORKING FROM HOME – WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS (1): GUIDANCE FROM THE NICE PEOPLE ON TWITTER
Once resource we can freely use is help from friends and colleagues on social media. I asked the good people of Twitter to give advice about working from home. Here are some of the replies (I may have missed some…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 9: SHARING THE “PAIN”
Most of the burden of complying with time periods and court orders lies with the solicitor. However a solicitor’s life can be made easier by making sure that all those concerned with the litigation process know of the deadlines involved…
2019 AND CIVIL PROCEDURE THE YEAR IN REVIEW: WELL BEING: LOOKING AFTER OURSELVES SO WE CAN LOOK AFTER OTHERS
This year has seen a large number of posts on avoiding stress and dealing with the difficulties that lawyers can have in litigation. MARCH: FIND MUGGLES AND DISCONNECT FROM YOUR WORK: “LAWYERS JUST NEED TO HAVE FUN” March had…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 8: SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
Christmas can be a time of great stress as well as great joy. The stresses for litigators can be just as great, working to deadlines which are not Christmas or family friendly. Add to this the problems of the office…
2O19 AND CIVIL PROCEDURE THE YEAR IN REVIEW (5): WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS – CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TWITTER
This year has seen a number of posts where contributions have been drawn from Twitter threads, with people accepting invitations to write on particular points. The advice is usually practical and sometimes profound. This is an appropriate time to remind…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 7: PREVENTING LAWYER SUICIDE
This is a major topic, and not one that I write about lightly. It arises from an event I attended last week in Leeds in relation to men’s mental health in the legal profession. I tweeted about attending very briefly…
DEALING WITH THE BEREAVED CLIENT: USEFUL LINKS AND GUIDANCE (2019)
This is the time of year when Hilary Wetherell and I travel round and give the APIL course on “Fatal Accidents, Practice, Procedure and Compassion”. The course deals a lot with the law and procedural aspects of fatal accidents. However…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 4: : A HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: KNOWING THE EVERYONE HAS LITIGATION NIGHTMARES
Litigation gives rise to its own pressures. Every litigator with any degree of experience will have horror stories. I thought it worthwhile repeating the advice given by the lawyers of Twitter for Halloween a few years back. You will see…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 3: SLEEP
I imagine that every single medical practitioner agrees on the importance of sleep in an individual’s health. It affects both physical and mental well being. Yet lawyers are ranked second amongst the most sleep deprived professions. Studies indicate that lawyers…
STAYING SANE AS A LITIGATOR 2: FISH FILES AND HOW TO FILLET THEM
We have looked at “fish files” several times on this blog, and with good reason. A “fish file” is a file that has been left for so long it has started to smell. Consequently the litigator avoids it and it…
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION FOR LAWYERS: ADVICE FROM THE LEGAL TWITTERATI (& OTHERS)
The latest “advice from Twitter” concerns travel and accommodation. What tips to people have about the best, and most economic, means of travel and accommodation for work. These are the early pieces of advice. It may well pay to check…
LAWYERS AND HOLIDAYS 2 – ADVICE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD : GOOD READING FOR UNICORNS
Following on from the post yesterday where lawyers gave advice on avoiding stress on work when going on and coming back from holiday it is worthwhile looking at the general guidance that is available. “Lawyers have holidays without stress?…
LAWYERS – GOING ON HOLIDAY AND AVOIDING EXTRA STRESS: ADVICE FROM TWITTER
Since we are in the middle of the holiday season I have noticed how some people are reporting that going on, and coming back, from holidays is a stressful experience. I asked the lawyers (and others) on Twitter to give…
ADVICE TO A NEWLY QUALIFIED LITIGATOR 4: THE GOOD STUFF ABOUT BEING A LITIGATOR – FROM NICE LAWYERS
This is the final post in this series. Readers may be best advised to keep coming back to it. I have asked on Twitter for positive views and contributions about being a litigator. As an incentive there is a prize…
ADVICE TO A NEWLY QUALIFIED LITIGATOR 3: THINGS WILL GO WRONG, ADMIT IT, DEAL WITH IT AND NEVER, EVER, EVER ATTEMPT TO HIDE IT
At sometime in everybody’s legal career there is likely to be a situation when mistakes are made and everything points to you. Mathew Hickey puts the point succinctly in Rocket Lawyer “There will be moments in your legal career when things…
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…