New research from CV-Library has revealed that a shocking 61.5% of legal employers have experienced inappropriate behaviour from their employees in the workplace, with 62.5% having to fire someone as a result. Is this happening at your business?
Lawyers hardly need explaining why these are so vital: legal practice requires highly developed cognitive abilities – for information retention and retrieval, analysis and interpretation, decision making, argumentation, etc. Legal training develops these abilities to a high level.
Whilst studying law is one of the most challenging disciplines that students can undertake in the UK, it also remains an incredibly popular and rewarding pastime.
The legal career is an often difficult but rewarding life choice, but many believe you have to go to law school and become a lawyer to work in law. The truth is, there are many roles within the legal sphere that don’t require you to be a lawyer, and many more legal jobs that you need not go to law school for.
This month, she discusses how developing the right network circle involves learning more about yourself first to ensure you have the people that better complement your skills and attributes. No man is an island, and no lawyer can cultivate a successful career by being known only to a limited number of his or her colleagues […]
Last year I was very fortunate to have a talented young corporate lawyer with a sterling law firm background do a secondment with me in my in-house legal department. At one of our one-on-one meetings a few weeks into his new job, he recounted his struggle to gain the trust of business people, manage difficult […]
In the first part of her series, she touches on the importance of networking as a skill, and why all lawyers should work on it and refrain from relying on AI when it comes to human connections. Very few professional development concepts are as divisive as the subject of networking. Most of the lawyers – […]
Becoming a barrister is often considered one of the highest achievements for a person’s legal career and most are probably under the impression that it will be plain sailing once they qualify. As with any similar role, being a barrister is much more than knowing your stuff and getting up in the morning.
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