Lawyer Work-Life Balance
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The thrill of the race - going offshore the old-fashioned way
By Legal Week | October 5, 2011
Sailing is a popular competitive sport and leisure activity for people living in the Channel Islands and, together with a longstanding but friendly rivalry between the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, the inter-island yacht race is a compelling event. Given the competitive nature of many of our colleagues and clients, together with widespread participation in sailing, it seemed only natural for Carey Olsen to begin sponsoring the Channel Islands' premier sailing event two years ago. Alternating in direction each year, the course this year ran from St Helier in Jersey to St Peter Port in Guernsey and saw almost 70 yachts compete for overall honours as well as many individual prize categories such as first bilge and long keel boat, first young skipper, first family crew and first non-Channel Islands yacht.
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Starting out strong - partners who founded their own firms
By Suzi Ring | September 28, 2011
Converting the dream of running your own successful law firm into the reality of creating a successful enterprise that can compete against a market steeped in history is a challenging task. And as the firm grows, almost as challenging is maintaining the culture and feel of the partnership you created. Looking back to when they initially started out, the founding partners of three younger firms explain how their vision evolved into the firms we know today.
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Moving on up - the realities of the journey from Bar to bench
By Suzi Ring | September 21, 2011
As the only High Court appointee from a five-strong round this year to already carry a judicial title, Judge Henry Globe QC marks the exception rather than the rule. Called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1972, Globe started out like most, working with his set, Exchange Chambers, and practising as a junior counsel on the local circuit. Now, having been a circuit judge for the past eight years, Globe is joining the select few who make it as far as the High Court.
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The libel survivor - what it's like to be faced with a gruelling libel claim
By Legal Week | September 14, 2011
Between 2007 and 2011 I was embroiled in what has become one of the most controversial libel cases in recent history. The claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self-styled 'holy man' from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English. He went by the grandiose title His Holiness Sant Baba Jeet Singh ji Maharaj.
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Stress and the City - the charity on call for struggling legal professionals
By Sofia Lind | September 7, 2011
In an increasingly competitive legal sector it is understandable that many lawyers are unwilling to admit to human weakness, but those counselling struggling legal professionals believe that the number failing to cope has risen notably in recent years. As it is, occupational psychologists often argue that lawyers are relatively prone to depression because pessimists – people able to foresee problems – do better at law. In addition, lawyers also tend to see themselves as problem-solvers, and charities such as LawCare think lawyers are therefore often unwilling to seek help.
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Olympic mettle - the impact of 2012 on employers
By Legal Week | July 27, 2011
Freshfields' Sam Barnes highlights the issues that could arise for employers during London 2012 and how they can overcome them to use to their advantage
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Education without walls - opportunities in the virtual classroom
By Legal Week | July 20, 2011
The new media age has created a generation of law students well versed in digital communication and technologies. A host of social media tools and free-to-use communication platforms have become second nature to the lawyers of tomorrow. As legal practice becomes increasingly globalised and law firms explore the cost-effective and collaborative benefits of virtual technologies, how should legal education keep pace?
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Competing colleagues - the growing field of inter-law firm sporting events
By Legal Week | July 6, 2011
Dragon boat racing and sitting volleyball may not be sports that are traditionally associated with lawyers and law firms, but they are two of the more quirky sports in which law firms have got involved in recent years. Keen to attract the best talent, law firms are increasingly up to promote their extra curricular sporting prowess. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is viewed among many as the ones to beat when it comes to both promoting and participating in sport. Official sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics, lawyers at the firm are involved in no less than 18 different sporting activities. Sitting volleyball is the current craze sweeping Freshfields' London office, with staff from across the firm getting involved in a competition which is aimed at boosting the profile of the 2012 Paralympic Games.
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Talking the talk - the plague of business jargon
By Legal Week | June 29, 2011
Lawyers are becoming partial to business-speak – a nonsense language of jargon that many see as a way to shut out those who don't understand it. JDG Chambers tells it like it is
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High-powered lawyers wear flip-flops - the US firm taking casual dress to a whole new level
By Legal Week | June 23, 2011
I rather dread this time of year, because this is when the big law firms in the land start looking like golfing camps. It's business casual season, which means that legions of lawyers - young and old, male and female - are donning pressed khakis and polo shirts. From a style point of view, it is utterly stultifying.
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