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Management & IT: Simplifying the complex

Barristers' chambers have an inherently complex offering. Essentially, chambers are communicating experience, knowledge and people. This raises the question of how best they present that offering.
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Star treatment

The legal sector labour market is experiencing the same demographic squeeze as other intellectual capital sectors - and this trend is set to worsen. In addition, employee attrition in some firms is unacceptably high at 20%-25%.
6 minute read

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Management: The bigger picture

With the evenings getting lighter and the days lengthening, this time of year always seems to present things in a fresh light. In the past few weeks we have talked to a number of law firms that want to experience something similar. While they may have great clients, those clients tend to call on their advisers only for certain expertise.
7 minute read

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Deal or no deal?

Obtaining new fee income has become an integral part of legal life for every partner and manager. Not only must one be an expert in a chosen field of law, it is also necessary to develop additional sales skills to guarantee a steady stream of new instructions in an increasingly competitive legal environment.
7 minute read

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The new frontiers of electronic discovery

For those who have never attended LegalTech in New York, it is like so many other things in the US - big. The organisers of this conference, at which lawyers and legal professionals meet the providers of their IT technology, estimated that the 26th annual event, held at the end of January, was attended by more than 11,000 people over the three days, browsing more than 250 exhibitor stands and attending some of the 50 or so presentations.
6 minute read

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Is private really private?

In connection with the 'cash for peerages' scandal, there were a number of mentions in the press about secondary email systems, following rumours about the existence of such a system within Downing Street. Do secondary email systems exist? How do they work and why are they used? And what should lawyers and regulators know about disclosure of evidence from them?
6 minute read

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What students want

Anyone with teenage children will appreciate the problems in understanding exactly what makes them tick - and it seems that graduate recruitment is suffering from a similar syndrome. Since today's graduate recruitment partners were students, the economics and philosophy of higher education have changed radically, which in turn has significantly altered the outlook and priorities of students and graduates. These are the main findings of the inaugural Legal Week Intelligence Student Survey, which questioned more than 2,000 students at the Russell Group of leading UK universities, from which the vast majority of trainees are hired by commercial firms.
8 minute read

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James Bateson: In praise of the middle order

In his article 'Leading from the middle' (Legal Week, 15 February, 2007), Tony Angel made the distinction between leadership and management and identified the role of the law firm managing partner as having three basic objectives:
4 minute read

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Baby boom or bust

Depending upon your perspective, the baby boomer generation is responsible for all that is good with the world or all that is wrong. Whether you are a 'boomer', a member of 'Generation X', or neither, the truth is that baby boomers were the first generation to never grow up. Like all teenagers, they rejected the values of their parents.
6 minute read

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Commercial Bar: Silver is the new gold

"Commercial barristers are struggling," said an article ('The Bar Barometer') in the pages of Legal Week in December 2006, offering analysis of the future prospects for leading chambers and supported by tales of woe from several leading commercial sets.
8 minute read

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