Category: General musings

  • Outsourcing Armageddon!!!

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    There’s no escaping the “o” word in the legal profession at the moment, and for the past 18 months, the stories in the UK legal press have just kept on coming. Lots of words, but what’s really happening? What’s going to happen? Does outsourcing spell armageddon for the legal profession? Will all the jobs be swept up…

  • The Specialist Generalist

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    Participating in a panel event for in-house lawyers last week, I was struck by the versatility of the corporate counsel that were taking part.     In-house lawyers are so much more accessible to their clients than lawyers in law firms, and this, coupled with the incredible range of business (and personal!) questions that can come across…

  • The price is right?

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    For a number of reasons, I’ve been thinking about price a lot this week. Firstly, the Holden Group’s excellent newsletter plopped through my virtual letter box with a leader on righting the wrongs of panic pricing. Next the Harvard Business Review had a very thought provoking article on adaptive pricing strategies, and finally, I went…

  • Can you quit your job?

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    I got an email from Linkedin last week, letting me know that 80+ people in my network had changed jobs last year. Now aside from the fact I love these type of analytics, the email made me stop and pause for a number of reasons, not least because I myself shifted jobs. The trend that…

  • You are wrong. I am right.

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    I read a great book recently called “The World Cafe; Shaping The Future Through Conversations That Matter” (by Brown and Isaacs). It’s all about a new form of dialogue that allows people to access a group’s collective intelligence, and was a fascinating read. If it all sounds a bit woolly, the principles are all heavily…

  • Top 5 sales FAILS (for lawyers)

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    In a fit of New Year’s good intentions (see last week’s post on resolutions) I’ve been scouring the Internet to find out how to be a better blogger. All for your benefit my friendly reader… Anyway, one of the suggestions I found (which I liked), was “write a list post”. I wondered what an earth…

  • Meaningful New Year’s resolutions

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    I know it’s a cliché, but it’s that time of year when all the talk is of resolutions. So take a break from diets, exercise and learning to play the ukulele/starting a salsa class/swimming the channel, and take the next ten minutes to think about some simple  steps you can take over the next 12 months…

  • 2010 The blog in review (thanks readers)

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    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can apparently hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed over  8,000 times in 2010. That’s nearly 20 full 747s.…

  • The value of discipline (sort of)

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    With the New Year approaching, given the title of this post, you may be expecting a post on all he productivity benefits that can flow from self-discipline coupled with some suggestions for New Year’s resolutions. But no. I’m combining the D-word with one of my favourite words, “value”, to bring you a little morsel that…

  • Law firm elves (the missing skillsets)

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    As snow continues to bathe the United Kingdom in its cold fluffiness, and our transport infrastructure predictably fails to cope, I’ve had plenty of time  to think up a suitably Christmassy post for this festive week. Now Santa Claus(e) is pretty busy at this time of year, arguably busier than even the most stressed managing partner. Sure, cash…