Lawyer Work-Life Balance
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The art of austerity - the surprisingly close ties between the worlds of art and law
By Legal Week | April 7, 2011
The Adelaide Nature Reserve is a community wildlife garden close to the railway tracks in Camden, North London. Last autumn, graphic artist Lindsay Noble was commissioned to design a mural to be painted over a graffiti-covered wall. An application was placed with the Arts Council for funding, but it was duly rejected. Corporate sponsorship was the next stop, Noble explains, which is how a team of lawyers from White & Case and bankers from The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) spent a Saturday applying colour to an 'encyclopaedia wall' of wildlife. "It turned out for the best," Noble says. "The law firm had its client day and the nature reserve got its mural. Everyone's a winner."
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Excitable, overly-critical and insensitive: do you have a typical lawyer's personality?
By Legal Week | April 4, 2011
Well, this is embarrassing. After all my rants about the character flaws of lawyers, it turns out that I might fit the lawyer profile quite nicely. Like others who've dropped out of law, I've always been convinced that I was miscast for the lawyer role from the start. In fact, I thought my unsuitability was confirmed after I took the McKenna Long personality test that is administered to potential hires (the computer generated what I thought was a rather harsh review of my personality).
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Trouble at sea - Ince & Co's Stephen Askins on the Somali pirate problem
By Legal Week | March 31, 2011
After a record number of maritime attacks in 2010, Irene Plagianos and Charlotte Edmond interview Ince & Co's Stephen Askins about the Somali pirate problem
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Legal opinions - Joshua Rozenberg reflects on 25 years covering the law
By Alex Aldridge | March 23, 2011
As mainstream media shies away from legal coverage, Joshua Rozenberg talks to Alex Aldridge about the 20 years under his belt that have made him the UK's best-known legal commentator
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Trust the protector? Trust and Estates Litigation Forum report
By Legal Week | March 22, 2011
With several key rulings pending for the trust and estates community - and others still very fresh - there was plenty to discuss at this year's Legal Week Trust and Estates Litigation Forum. Always a keen topic of debate, Hastings Bass, and in particular limits to its rule which have been reconsidered by the courts in England and other jurisdictions over the last year, was much talked about.
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Toil erosion - US law firms shift their holiday policies
By Legal Week | March 16, 2011
Last December, when Dewey & LeBoeuf announced a shift in vacation policy for its associates and counsel, the move was greeted with some scepticism online. The firm had decided to scuttle its traditional three to four weeks of paid vacation, earned on an accrual basis, in favour of a policy in which associates and counsel would - in the words of an internal memo - "be entitled to take a reasonable amount of paid time off... subject to client demands and your other professional obligations and responsibilities".
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The new retirement plan - how a SIPP can restore your faith in retirement planning
By Legal Week | March 15, 2011
Confession time: How many of you have a dark cupboard or drawer somewhere crammed with dusty statements and policy documents relating to pension plans you lost interest in some time around the last royal wedding? The past decade has been characterised by a growing dissatisfaction with conventional retirement planning solutions, particularly those revolving around insurance company pension plans. The key reasons cited for this dissatisfaction are lack of control, poor communication, high charges, unfathomable product information and a general disconnection between the investor and the financial arrangements.
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Wave bye-bye – how to quit your job without burning your bridges
By Legal Week | March 15, 2011
Spring is in the air, business is picking up, and lawyers are hot commodities again. So let's talk about something we've been itching to cover: quitting your job! For those of you who have been waiting for that recession to lift so that you can skip to another position, your ship is finally coming in. If you've been interviewing for another job, you might be wondering about the protocol for quitting.
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A fresh start - the growing band of professionals targeting law as a second career
By Legal Week | March 10, 2011
With an increasing number of professionals moving into law as a second career, Caroline Hill finds out what a jump into the legal profession really entails...
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No business like show business - Olswang film law doyenne on her Oscars glory
By Legal Week | March 1, 2011
Olswang's Libby Savill talks about her co-executive producer role for the Oscar-winning film, The King's Speech
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