Having missed the Profile Network Property Week editor lunch at the end of January following the mini-personal crisis resulting from the theft of my purse and mobile phone, I was keen to get along to a Profile event to catch up with friends and contacts involved in property marketing – Read More
The legal market – and family law in particular – is going through a great many changes. Despite there being over 115,000 divorces in the UK each year, Legal Aid is no longer available except for some very specialist areas of family law. There are now numerous web sites providing Read More
Interested in a free personality assessment? I’ve just completed four days training with Psysoft http://www.psysoft.com/ to achieve the British Psychological Society (BPS) Occupational Ability and Personality Test User Certification Level A and B using NEO PI-R Personality Inventory. Yes, psychometric testing! This is to add to my armoury of a BPS Read More
There were four research reports to help us understanding General Counsel (in-house lawyers) published recently. Each drew out some surprising findings: Nabarro’s third annual general counsel report (surveying 100 GCs from FTSE listed and large private companies) indicated that 75% were keen to receive further training on influencing. GCs from Kellogg, Misys and Sony Read More
Slaughter & May (average 8.47 out of 10), Bird & Bird and Berwin Leighton Paisner emerged as the top rated law firms in the UK top 20 according to the ninth major client satisfaction research project by Legal Week which canvassed the opinions of more than 1,200 clients. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Read More
