Category Archives: For Individuals
Just how hard is it to prove breach of non-solicitation?
1 May 2012 Full StoryEvery business has information that it considers both integral and invaluable to its ongoing success. Restricting the use of this information by employees after they have left your employment may be vital to the protection of your business or customer contacts. A former employee who has knowledge of your technology, strategic information or clients may [...]
Read MoreLawyers must plan carefully before packing their bags
26 Apr 2012 Full StoryOverseas relocation can be lucrative but also has its costs, writes Tom Welsh of City Am A Survey by Laurence Simons, the legal recruiters, recently found that 67 per cent of lawyers would consider relocating abroad as their next career move. Reasons included a tightened job market in London and a perception that practising law [...]
Read MoreHow Well Do You Develop Your People?
26 Mar 2012 Full StoryTraining and Development is key to an effective team When you manage a team, how well it performs often depends on how well you’ve trained and developed your people. Individuals need ongoing training and development to help them become more effective, and take on bigger and more significant challenges. More than this, they need help [...]
Read MoreGiving and Taking Feedback
21 Mar 2012 Full StoryGiving feedback effectively is a skill. And like all skills, it takes practice to build your confidence and improve your technique. Many managers save up comments and notes on a person’s performance and then spring a year’s worth of “constructive criticism” on them in their annual review. The process of giving feedback to employees is [...]
Read MoreIt’s not just lawyers who prosper in law
20 Mar 2012 Full StoryOur Chairman, Phil Jepson, comments on advancement opportunities opening up within Law for City AM – London’s daily business paper. LAW is bigger business than ever. Freshfields employs 5,000 people and has twenty-seven offices in sixteen countries. Linklaters also has twenty-seven offices in twenty countries. Its revenues in 2010-11 were £1.2bn. Of course, this is good news [...]
Read MoreSelling yourself – personal branding in a professional services market
27 Feb 2012 Full StoryProfessional Services are about people. You need clients and contacts to buy into you and that means you need to build your personal brand. Marketing in professional services firms has changed significantly across the past few years. Gone are the days of sitting back and waiting for referrals to call. With increases in competition, difficult [...]
Read MoreDevelop your career
17 Feb 2012 Full Story// In the new legal market your ability to sell and look after clients and your general commercial skills and understanding will be even more important than before. We are looking for a group of lawyers to work with to help them develop and improve these skills. If you may be interested in finding out [...]
Read MoreHow to do mergers
17 Feb 2012 Full StoryWe are told that 75% of law firms have spent some or all of the last 12 months in discussions about “merger”. In the USA it is reported that mergers are up by 80% in the first three quarters of 2011 against the same period in 2010. The market there is being driven by transactions [...]
Read MoreLinder Myers/RFC – A merger of our times
20 Jan 2012 Full StoryA merger of two long standing Manchester firms. The process leading to the acquisition of RFC began in Summer 2010. Linder Myers had a strategy to grow their business in Manchester and in a set of other locations. They knew what markets they were focused on. They wanted to move forward more quickly than organic [...]
Read MoreIncreasing Productivity
20 Jan 2012 Full StoryWe can all be more productive, as individuals and organisations. There is always value that can be added with only the resources at hand. But what increases productivity? Productivity Consultant David Allen suggests the following: Not more resources, as a rule. More money that produces the same result per pound spent is no improvement. What [...]
Read MoreTheory of Constraints
20 Jan 2012 Full StoryNo matter what you do, there is often scope for boosting overall performance. A great way of doing this is to identify and eliminate “bottlenecks,” or things that are holding you back. So how do you identify these bottlenecks? One approach is to use the Theory of Constraints (TOC). This helps you identify the most [...]
Read MoreWork More Effectively
18 Jan 2012 Full StoryA lot of us work hard. Sometimes it feels like we work too hard. Sometimes it feels like we are working hard but not performing well. How can we make sure that we get as much as possible out of the time we spend at work and maybe even do more in less time? Tony [...]
Read MoreWhat are you still doing here?
15 Jan 2012 Full StoryGrey, cold, wet January morning. The economic news is depressing and no one can quite see the light at the end of the tunnel. At one time English qualified lawyers were pretty much stuck in England because re qualifying was difficult and the only overseas jurisdiction we could work in without re qualifying was New [...]
Read MoreImprove your Linked In Profile
23 Nov 2011 Full StoryLinked In has become a key business tool. It is very powerful because it helps you to build a strong network which you can use to develop your practice. It also builds your personal brand and profile. If you search your name on Google it is your Linked In profile that will appear at the [...]
Read MoreNon-Lawyers in Law Firms
21 Oct 2011 Full StoryThe day on which the long heralded reforms of the Legal Services Market took effect was more a damp squib than a big bang. But there is no doubt that change is afoot. Many law firms are restructuring to be competitive in a changing world and to take advantage of new opportunities. New entrants are [...]
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