Lawyer Work-Life Balance
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Fast, furious and distracted
By Legal Week | December 8, 2009
"One of my colleagues is the hardest-driving lawyer I've ever met. Besides speeding and yelling at 'idiots' to get out of his way, he's recently started using his knees to steer while texting on his BlackBerry. I've offered to drive, but he thinks he's a great driver. What should I do?"
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Law, novels and surf trips
By Legal Week | December 2, 2009
Being self-employed has given 1 Temple Gardens barrister Tim Kevan the flexibility to pursue his non-legal passions...One of the joys of the Bar is that you are self-employed and therefore get a lot more freedom over your own destiny than most. For my part, as a keen surfer, this meant that over the years as a common law barrister at 1 Temple Gardens...
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Crime doesn't pay
By Legal Week | November 25, 2009
Don't go to the Criminal Bar. I can't put it strongly enough. Don't do it. It is a mug's game. Let me try to explain. First, pupillage awards are scandalously low - usually now £10,000 per year, and often your own earnings in your second six months count as part of that.
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The case for the defence
By Legal Week | November 25, 2009
Simon Myerson QC responds to Alex Deane's criticisms, arguing that the Criminal Bar is still a career worth pursuing... In order to see whether there is anything in the preceding litany of gloom and doom, I have tried to analyse the actual complaints.
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The US invasion
By Legal Week | November 17, 2009
Twenty years ago US firms were not really an option for UK partners, whereas now there are close to 100 US law firms practising in London and partners are moving to US firms on a frequent basis. The move can be made very attractive often by higher remuneration packages and also the opportunity to work within smaller teams of people, but with the strength of a major international firm behind them. Although moving to a US firm is now a well trodden path, the firms are still at a size where a lateral hire can be highly influential in the growth of the firm.
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The wrong side of the law
By Legal Week | November 11, 2009
When I first entered Armley Prison in Leeds in April 1971, having just received four years for arson plus two times six months consecutively for burglary and deception, I looked out of the cell window aware that the law stopped outside of the prison gates.
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Drawn away from the Bar
By Legal Week | November 4, 2009
Most lawyers, at some point in their careers, fantasise about leaving law and doing something else with their lives. Which is odd, given how much hard work goes into becoming a lawyer in the first place. You spend years studying and training to get in, only to find yourself wondering what it would be like to get out.
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Commercial break
By Legal Week | October 28, 2009
After five years working in advertising I was in need of a change. Holed up in a cosy cocktail bar with a few friends, I was indulging in a good moan about how fed up I was. I was bored to tears. Compared with the work stories my friends from university could tell, anything I added sounded trite, facile and empty. They kindly tried to cheer me up by reminding me that usually I loved advertising.
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Grow your capital
By Legal Week | October 14, 2009
Lawyers: neglecting your personal finances will cost you thousands in tax and lost opportunities during your career. Perhaps the biggest problem you face is finding the time to dedicate to your finances and take advantage of the tax breaks available to you. Help is at hand.
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Sometimes it was 'poor', other times 'woefully ineffective'
By Legal Week | October 12, 2009
Former magic circle trainee Dominic Webb on management in City law firms... Should lawyers be running large law firms? They are bright people, after all. Some will have natural leadership skills, of course. But as a breed, can lawyers actually run their firms well?
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