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Chrissie Lightfoot
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Lawyer shelling: lies, damned lies and collective wisdom
In a legal world flush with lies, damned lies and frightening statistics in relation to ‘lawyer shelling’ (my crude terminology for expulsion and even possible extinction of our treasured profession and the comfortable roles we once enjoyed) I reckon we can find great wisdom in a variety of books beyond ...
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Grinch Lawyer Syndrome?
As Christmas comes but once a year, I’d like to share with you now a simple verse: 'And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes ...
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Dare to adapt, innovate and be inspired
As layoffs continue to sweep through Wall Street I got to thinking about our legal world and the movie Indecent Proposal.
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Frustrated Lawyers R Us. Plan ‘B’ mutiny?
‘The sun is out... the sky is blue... there’s not a cloud... to spoil the view... but it’s raining... (doodle doodle doom)... raining in my heart.’
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Traditionalists v modernists: business dilemma for law firms
Last week, Chris Roebuck, in his interesting blog post on making change happen, stated that ‘legal firms face probably their toughest challenges for years’.
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The end of lawyers? Pah! This is the time of the 'super lawyer'.
In March, Alastair Moyes stated that 'law firms need to work hard in the face of commoditised legal providers'. Last month he bravely stuck his neck out and suggested that we, today's lawyers, need to embrace radical change...