The pandemic thrust issues of employee mental health and wellbeing into the spotlight. The Brief has spoken to a selection of law firms to find out how they have responded.
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The Brief interviews BCL Legal Associate Director, Charlotte Newton, as she reflects on her career in recruitment and her journey to Associate Director with BCL
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Building a positive profile in the media can be of benefit to lawyers’ businesses and their careers. Stuart Anderson, director of Alpha Public Relations, sets out a number of tips to help legal professionals engage with journalists effectively.
The 27th Smith & Williamson law firm survey in association with The Lawyer, shows an increasingly confident sector, with 97% of respondents reasonably or very confident about the business outlook for their firm, up from a combined 80% in 2020.
Workplace culture can be a powerful glue that holds teams together. It can also be fragile, and it needs to be nurtured. The Brief finds out how law firms can maintain their values and ensure consistency across their teams.
After more than a year of predominantly working from home, teams are now beginning to return to office premises in greater numbers. How are legal firms managing this transition and what might the “new normal” look like in the long term? The Brief finds out.
Together with Law.Com International, Smith & Williamson’s analysis of the latest set of filed accounts for the top 50 UK law firms for 2019/20, suggests that despite the pandemic arriving just before their year ends, they still felt the seismic effects.
The Brief finds out, and hears about the impact of government policy on the financial wellbeing of criminal defence specialists.
For most legal professionals, retirement is the culmination of your life’s work, but achieving the retirement you deserve requires careful planning. Tilney outline some important steps when considering retirement.
Health focus: The Brief asks how lawyers have managed to keep in shape and finds out about the importance of good nutrition as we return to more normal ways of working.
The pandemic thrust issues of employee mental health and wellbeing into the spotlight. The Brief has spoken to a selection of law firms to find out how they have responded.
The Brief interviews BCL Legal Associate Director, Charlotte Newton, as she reflects on her career in recruitment and her journey to Associate Director with BCL
BCL Legal's Alex Carpenter discusses the growth of our Scotland recruitment team and the growth within the Scottish legal market...
BCL Legal, in support of The Access To Justice Foundation: How your firm can give access to justice to those most in need
Building a positive profile in the media can be of benefit to lawyers’ businesses and their careers. Stuart Anderson, director of Alpha Public Relations, sets out a number of tips to help legal professionals engage with journalists effectively.
The 27th Smith & Williamson law firm survey in association with The Lawyer, shows an increasingly confident sector, with 97% of respondents reasonably or very confident about the business outlook for their firm, up from a combined 80% in 2020.
Workplace culture can be a powerful glue that holds teams together. It can also be fragile, and it needs to be nurtured. The Brief finds out how law firms can maintain their values and ensure consistency across their teams.
After more than a year of predominantly working from home, teams are now beginning to return to office premises in greater numbers. How are legal firms managing this transition and what might the “new normal” look like in the long term? The Brief finds out.
Together with Law.Com International, Smith & Williamson’s analysis of the latest set of filed accounts for the top 50 UK law firms for 2019/20, suggests that despite the pandemic arriving just before their year ends, they still felt the seismic effects.
The Brief finds out, and hears about the impact of government policy on the financial wellbeing of criminal defence specialists.
For most legal professionals, retirement is the culmination of your life’s work, but achieving the retirement you deserve requires careful planning. Tilney outline some important steps when considering retirement.
Health focus: The Brief asks how lawyers have managed to keep in shape and finds out about the importance of good nutrition as we return to more normal ways of working.
A recent report painted a mixed picture of the sector’s performance during 2020. What do its findings mean for the profession, and how do they compare to the experience of individual firms?
Career progression: What does it take to rise to the top in the legal profession?
Productivity: How are lawyers really getting on with remote working?
The Brief in collaboration with Stribe - We want to know: How do you feel your firm understands its employees’ needs and priorities?
Zooming in: maintaining workplace values through the pandemic
Salaries for newly qualified solicitors up by 4% in 2019
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Simon Bruce, partner at Dawson Cornwell, tells The Brief about acting in some of the most high-profile family cases to have come before the English Courts, including the ground-breaking 2010 Radmacher v Granatino matter, and why, despite having six reported Supreme Court cases to his name, he believes mediation is preferable to litigation.
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Andrew Macmillan, head of Gateley Legal’s Employment, Pensions and Private Client Group shares his passions and interests.
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Rebecca Morrison is a lawyer turned executive happiness coach and the author of the best-selling book The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters. She identifies three common myths surrounding work-related happiness.
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Simon Bruce, partner at Dawson Cornwell, tells The Brief about acting in some of the most high-profile family cases to have come before the English Courts, including the ground-breaking 2010 Radmacher v Granatino matter, and why, despite having six reported Supreme Court cases to his name, he believes mediation is preferable to litigation.
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Andrew Macmillan, head of Gateley Legal’s Employment, Pensions and Private Client Group shares his passions and interests.
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Manjinder Kang established Kang & Co Solicitors in 2016 as a specialist motoring defence firm. Now in the Legal 500 and top ranked in the UK’s Chambers and Partners, he tells The Brief about a typical day in his life as director and principal solicitor at a practice that deals with clients from all over the country who are accused of complex and serious driving offences.
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Rebecca Morrison is a lawyer turned executive happiness coach and the author of the best-selling book The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters. She identifies three common myths surrounding work-related happiness.
