Lawyer Work-Life Balance
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Young and restless - John Young reflects on a 33-year legal career
By Georgina Stanley | May 17, 2012
At the end of last month John Young bowed out of Hogan Lovells by somewhat unusually zipwiring across Old Billingsgate market in front of more than 900 lawyers and staff at a summer party (brought forward to coincide with his retirement) dressed as Braveheart.
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Welcome to the grindstone - associate attitudes to the post-crisis working world
By Ben Wheway | May 10, 2012
Given the 'jam tomorrow' model of most law firms, there has never really been a great time to be an associate. Associates do the hard graft – as they have since qualification – on the basis that, one day, their late nights and neglected personal relationships will be rewarded by a seat at the equity table, generous partner drawings and a slightly more manageable workload.
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Family matters - are law firms delivering on their flexible working promises?
By Legal Week | May 3, 2012
HR departments are sympathetic to flexible working. But their frustration is that they will write up a policy and invite line managers to a training course on it and then, because it wasn't mandatory, the managers often won't even bother attending...
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Just desert: a Links lawyer's seven-day, 150-mile journey in the Sahara - on foot
By Legal Week | April 26, 2012
Linklaters' Richard Youle on blistering heat and blistered feet during a seven-day running event in the Sahara desert...
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This other life - the strains of managing a work/life balance at the Bar
By Legal Week | April 19, 2012
"There have always been very ambitious barristers who are overly preoccupied with success, some because of the desire to build reputation, some, more venally, for money, who work so hard that they're in real danger of burnout..."
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Pitch perfect - Olswang extends its entertainment practice to a choir competition
By Legal Week | March 22, 2012
Olswang has made it through to the Office Choir of the Year finals. Eleni Skordaki describes the firm's route to make it to the last four
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Overcoming history - Rwanda's struggle to rebuild its legal system
By Melanie Law | March 15, 2012
The UK's College of Law has been assisting Rwanda's centre for legal education in its goal of training up the country's own professionals and rebuilding the legal sector. Dan Hill reports
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Friday's children - how RollOnFriday got kinda respectable
By Suzi Ring | February 23, 2012
Over a decade and a bit, irreverent legal website RollOnFriday has given City associates a voice and become respectable – almost. Suzanna Ring and Alex Novarese report...
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Change in the air - the lawyers helping poorer countries to plug into the UN
By Sofia Lind | February 16, 2012
A band of lawyers are putting their heads together to help the world's least developed countries understand the impact of UN talks. Sofia Lind reports,,,
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Nostalgia for sale - how one lawyer turned a passion for movie posters into a day job
By Sofia Lind | January 26, 2012
Harbottle & Lewis' Andy Millmore tells Sofia Lind how his passion for collecting old movie posters turned into a business venture
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