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Paul Gilbert, Chief Executive — Paul Gilbert Chief Executive

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A major new programme for the in-house sector: The Leadership and Management Programme - for in-house lawyers preparing for senior roles with management responsibility

In 2006 LBC Wise Counsel launched the LBCambridge programme, which takes place twice each year at Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK. Since it started, the programme has introduced literally hundreds of in-house lawyers » more

All Aboard for the U-Bend to Happiness

by Stephen Gold

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I possess;
I thank the Lord that I’ve been blessed
With more than my share of happiness.
Kenneth Arthur Dodd, 1964

“Well, good for him,” you may think, » more

LBC Wise Counsel and The Law Society of Scotland

LBC Wise Counsel and The Law Society of Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a new programme entitled "Towards the new normal: because hope is not a strategy - insights and » more

Communication Skills - Techniques and Insights

Two half-day workshops on writing skills and presentation skills without the hype – just practical advice and insights for everyone.

1. How the writing skills of a top journalist show lessons for lawyers » more

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Latest Articles by Paul Gilbert

The “what”, the “so what” and the “now what”

8/11 | One of my colleagues uses a line regularly when we are assessing how to turn a nice warm, fluffy idea into something that has some colder edges and a little more recognisable reality about it...

What makes a great lawyer?

8/11 | ...The essence of becoming a great lawyer is realising that it isn’t about you.

2011 Skills Symposium

8/11 | Under a swirling sky swathed in shades of the most vivid purples and golds and heavy with the threat of an imminent storm, delegates assembled at Kloofzicht near Johannesburg on Sunday 30 October 2011 for a unique legal conference that aimed to challenge, delight and inspire.

Specialisation – benefit or burden?

8/11 | Almost from the moment a lawyer hatches from the chrysalis of their training contract they will specialise. A butterfly is born, but one that feeds on a very narrow diet. I have often wondered if this is a burden or a benefit...

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10 Years Wise

Wise Counsel -
from 2000 to 2010...

Ten years of
inspiring excellence

In the summer of the year 2000 Paul Gilbert met with his old friend and mentor Geoff Williams...It was over a pint and a ploughman's lunch at the Golden Heart pub in Nettleton Bottom, Gloucestershire where Paul described his ambition of running a company that would support the skills of in-house lawyers...more