If I told you that the secret to making your next presentation a success was to visualise it in advance, no doubt some of you would be wondering if I’d swapped a suit for a string of beads and a headband… After all, visualisation and manifestation are often bundled up together with gamma waves, heightened […]
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday Partnerless has been digging into a whole range of learning and development programmes recently and we’ve been particularly impressed by Dechert‘s approach to associate training. A bit of a step up from your classic lunch-and-learn, in June Dechert piloted a partnership with […]
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday It’s a common complaint that regional lawyers will serve their time at the firm that trained them but pop off to the bright lights of London soon after qualification. That’s certainly the case at Burness Paull this year, which has seen the departure of […]
Sign up for the weekly Partnerless email here Shoosmiths is in go-ahead mode right now as it toughens up in an attempt to lead the upper mid-market by 2030. Making sure the voice of its junior population is heard amid all this change are three entrepreneurial trainees: Fiona Thornton, Hannah Ruby and Amelia Hicks. This tenacious trio decided to approach […]
Autumn coincides with the political party conference season in the UK. Like many big conferences these are filled with many speeches and most of these are very forgettable. Rhetorical saturation, platitude overload and themes that are drier than dog biscuits translate as a bleak consumer experience for the audience. I have written before about how […]
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Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. Dinosaur partners will slow AI transformation Welcome to this week’s edition of Curve. Today we are looking at the notion that the AI revolution is hitting the legal market slower than other sectors, and a number of legal insiders think that the more senior partners are the […]
I’m convinced that adopting the newborn parenting mindset will make me a better, more productive, and happier, lawyer. Here’s how.
Let’s start this month’s reflection by rolling out the reliable cliché that ‘a week is a long time in politics’. With so many elections taking place this year, I may regret using that line now, but the week in question – August’s Democratic National Convention – is worth mentioning. The Americans sure know how to […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. How not to become irrelevant, champagne and free advice Ask anyone in the sector about what they think AI will change about the way lawyers “do law” and they’ll tell you it will help them get back to doing the things they love. Less process, less diligence, […]
“I think you really need to be more confident….” Does this phrase sound familiar? Are you a person who has said this phrase to a colleague in a professional environment? Or perhaps you are a person who has had this phrase said to you instead. If it’s the latter, how did that make you feel? […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. Using an avatar to bill; and BNP Paribas’ blue-sky bot There is a lot of chatter about the things AI could take away: jobs, creativity, lawyers. What the future of lawyers is going to look like remains a grey area, with firms unsure how to move forward […]