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Life, the universe and your lawyer

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one theory is now famously established; it is that the answer to “Life the Universe and Everything” is 42. This, as I am…
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Leaping Forward

“I’ve got a great idea” said the bright young thing. “It’s brilliant in its simplicity, clever in its concept and cannot fail to succeed”. Then the idea died; stopped dead…
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Gone Shopping

The Chinese have an old saying, “One cannot stand still in a moving river”. And not only is change a fact of life for us all, it is also the…
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The road to in-house success

I am sure you are all aware of a book written a few years ago by Stephen Covey called “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”… Over years the company…
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Client Side Up

Finding a law firm that thinks it needs advice on the better management of client relationships is like trying to find a man who will admit to being a bad…
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Coupe or not Coupe

Too often what we really want eludes us and what we get is a compromise. The job, the house, the car and, dare I say, in personal relationships as well.…
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It’s the thought that counts

As a small boy, one phrase that was indelibly impressed on to my consciousness at this post Christmas time of year was “It is the thought that counts”. It was…
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Why lawyers rubbish in bed… probably

Your attention momentarily grabbed by this perhaps alarming headline, I’must first make clear (particularly to Lisa my partner) that I have not slept with any lawyers when researching this article.…
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Putting your house in order

“I am just not cut out to do marketing” So said one partner of one of the larger law firms in the UK to me not so long ago. “I…
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For Goodness Sake

The law is a subject that evokes a number of stereotypical images. Some images are driven by television and film, others by the print journalists…some follow our own experiences and…
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Taking Stock

As the song says “There may be trouble ahead….” But what about for in-house lawyers in 2004? Well, while I predict plenty of “moonlight”, I suspect there may be very…
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Have you been Enron-ed?

Once upon a time in-house lawyers were thought to have a cushy number…nine to five, nice office, nice pension and if anything tricky came along they could always outsource it.…
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A timebomb waiting to explode

Last month the Legal Director Benchmarker survey revealed clients’ growing concern over the levels of fees charged by law firms. It is time, writes Paul Gilbert, for in-house lawyers to…
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Thoughts from the bottom line

Somewhere in the City It was October 2003 and I overheard a conversation in the staff canteen of a well regarded law firm in the City of London. “It’s a…
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Make More Money – Now!

Every now and again I find myself driving along the A40 into London pondering the unpalatable thought that unless my alarm goes off at 3am I really will spend years…
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Reform Debate

In most important debates there will be several different points of view all of which will have some validity. People hold to their particular view for a variety of reasons:…
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Forum

“Daddy, what job do you do?” “I’m a solicitor sweetheart” “Oh…what’s one of those?” “A solicitor is someone who helps people” “Like the lollypop lady at school, or like a…
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Give us a break

The Chinese have a saying “You cannot stand still in a moving river”. It will evoke a familiar feeling for in-house lawyers everywhere. The dynamics of the business world today…
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Forum

The Law Society, so the perception goes, is out of touch, irrelevant to the vast majority of solicitors and their firms and generally just not very good. The Big Question…
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A Call to Arms

In-house lawyers should be a hugely influential constituency whose voice should carry enormous weight. But, says Paul Gilbert, their response to date to changes in the legal profession has been…
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I have a dream?

“I’m sorry, did you say it was an elephant?” “No, I said it was irrelevant” …I really do hesitate to write this piece… just how many times can someone write…
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Resolve to Evolve

With their antiquated business practices and lack of customer service, are law firms in danger of being left behind? Paul Gilbert says that it’s definitely time for a revolution. People…
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Untitled

Your career as a solicitor might last thirty-five, even forty years. That is an awfully long time and must seem a daunting prospect when standing at the start line wondering…
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