The 'Where's Wally?' pictures have quite a following. Wally (stripy bobble hat and matching scarf) is always the same - smiling and waving from within a hugely detailed illustration. It's aimed at young children, but as an adult, it's hard...
Sorry-not-sorry. It’s such a cliché – we make fun of it. No one likes to mess up, and we strive to avoid it. But social media has an immediacy that is part of its power – consider all the angles,...
The legal profession is rarely lauded by outside circles for its commitment to engaging in pro bono work. Through a purely voluntary endeavour that goes unregulated, most firms levy targets on staff to dedicate a minimum number of hours every...
You could be forgiven for having “survey fatigue” – there just are so many of them, often simply designed to promote some product or other. But the authoritative ones on important issues deserve our attention. One such survey is the Law...
What do you think of awareness days? Or indeed awareness days, weeks and months? Last week was International Women’s Day, World Book Day, Panic Day, but only in the US; Rare Disease Day came at the end of LGBT+ History...
To mark International Women’s Day, Laura Devine, principal of Laura Devine Solicitors, reflects on women in the law and the changes she’s seen in the profession through her career. Law since the 1980s I’m not sure the law has changed since I...
Unless you've had all news and social media switched off recently you'll have seen the latest Gillette ad. The one which shows a range of suboptimal male behaviour, including sexual harassment, before switching to examples of men at their best...
The Times carried an article last week by Nick Freeman, the lawyer known as ‘Mr Loophole’, whose stock in trade is representing clients facing charges related to motoring offences. Freeman noted that in a crowded legal market "branding and marketing are...
In the first of our series of Thought Leader Interviews, we spoke to Jason Smalley of The Legal Director about the challenges faced by GCs, how they select their external legal advisers and the value of a legal directory ranking...
I have just arrived in Rome for the annual IBA (International Bar Association) Conference which starts on Sunday. The event is expected to draw record numbers of attendees this year – probably topping 6,000. The weather is very warm, everyone's diaries are...
