Suppose just for a minute that this falls under career guidance…
Now hate’s a pretty strong word but sometimes…
These might just help you stay out of trouble…
You might think they’re more used to lawyers’ bad habits…
Law firms – early adopters of technology…?
It’s only fair to show you both sides of the coin…
Yes, there’s even a guide for this…
Would you believe it, another group of people that hate lawyers…
If you are reading this then you probably already are one (or headed that way), and you may or may not be pleased to know that you have a head start when it comes to dating one…
Some fine examples of how lawyers use their skills of reason and logic to rip off clients without them clocking it. Or not as the case may be. The problem with the billable hour is that you can only sensibly have 24 of them in a day and that, you see, has its limitations.
Like other advisors, some lawyers find questionable ways to squeeze a bit of extra cash out of clients. Some are legal, some aren’t, but all will …
There are plenty of law graduates and qualified lawyers struggling to keep their legal career on track these days. We have heard some fairly desparate stories of application after application being knocked back. News that firms have instructed recruiters to search only from the ranks of the employed and not from the large pools of redundant solicitors is galling for those out of a job but not wholly surprising. With a surfeit of candidates to choose from it’s an …
Feel like tearing your boss a new one or wrapping a monitor round a colleague’s head. You probably need to step out and chill for a bit. But if you just want to have a strongly worded discussion about strategy or a robust exchange of ideas, then it might be ok to go right ahead; from the BBC:
New research suggests that companies would prosper by encouraging a robust exchange of ideas, even if this descends into a heated argument, …
We love a bit of ranking – a couple of interesting reports on the current shape of law firms have just come out. A joint research project between The American Lawyer and Legal Week found total revenues at the world’s 100 highest-billing law firms have crept up 1.7% from the previous year, from $78.53bn to $79.92bn. Average fee income for a Global 100 practice was $799.2m, up from $785.3m in 2008 but average profit per equity partner (PEP) was …
Some lecturers here may claim to use the Socratic Method of teaching but when it comes to crunch few go to the same lengths as American law schools. Law schools in the States commonly use the teaching method to stimulate rational thinking and to illuminate ideas from their students. All jolly exciting. What we are drawing attention to is the embarrasing moment that everyone encounters at some point in their educational and professional career which is not knowing the …
No we haven’t assigned anyone in the SolicitR team to become the Jeremy Clarkson of office tools. But we are known for occasionally straying away from a strictly legal menu. One of our readers sent us a selection of product reviews on Amazon that got hijacked by readers; this just happens to be the one we thought was most useful to lawyers:
Bic Cristal Ballpoint Pen, Medium Point, Black
Number of reviews: 188
Sample reviews:
i) All my life I have been scratching …
Laid off recently? Trying to retain some semblance of sanity by interacting with other beings during the search for jobs/endless days surfing the net. Here’s some useful tips to ensure that your local coffee shop proprietor doesn’t resent your presence as much as the homeless guy who sleeps in the doorway:
1. Always buy something, preferably more than you would if you weren’t using the space. Obviously.
2. Don’t be a table hog. When the coffee shop fills …
University and law school should have taught wannabee lawyers a few things at least. Amongst them you’d hope for a bit of case analysis, some litigation techniques and legal research skills, but they normally overlook one important area: the practical realities that exist within a firm.
Cynisism aside for a minute, most new associates love being lawyers, or at least should for a while , and generally their first and foremost goal is to become a great lawyer. Over …
Sometimes you come across questions that tempt the conclusion – if you have to ask then you probably already know the answer. You might consider this just such an example but being open minded souls here at Solicitr, we suspect that there may be more than one or two stoners that have either made it into the higher echelons of law or intend to sometime in the not-to-distant future.
This question was not posed to our good selves (it was …
Those in the regions may think this just confirms what they already knew; Londoners may smart a little or wholeheartedly agree with this result, but London has failed to make the top 50 most live-able cities. That is according to worldwide analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit in which Manchester was the only UK city to make the top 50, slipping in at 46th place. London managed 51st place.
Canada’s Vancouver came first, Vienna in Austria …
