(This graphic has little to do with my post but is as tasteless as anything I could find.) Imagine the Human Resources Manager of Cameron McKenna (London-based global firm) revealing this publicly about a member of its staff (albeit internally and only to trainees). To be clear, the email included the employee’s real name.
Recently,
The introduction of Female Mentoring at Freshfields (London-based global firm) is to be congratulated and condemned at the same time – perhaps King Solomom would have a different take on this but here is mine. I applaud: – the motives (diversity – attracting and keeping more women in a firm that lacks the degree of
Richard Susskind opines on the future of law books. 
In his article: It’s a book, but not as we know it, reader Richard explores whether (or when) we will give up law books in favor of devices like the Sonyｮ Reader. PUNCHLINE: Susskind is probably right – it is not whether; it’s when
“Diversity in a City partnership: men in dark grey suits and in light grey suits” The “City” is London and thanks once again to the rollonfriday for yet another interesting post Clients force firms to take diversity seriously… Barclays, the mega UK based bank, has requested diversity stats from prominent City firms including: “Allen &
Imagine that you were working with the law firm of a very prominent blogger on Saturday (In Search of Perfect Client Service)… and that expectations of you were high – imagine that blogger is Patrick Lamb with a highly respected voice that reaches the most influential ears associated with the management and marketing
Guy Kawasaki two days in a row? Not my fault – his. Guy was traveling on: 
from 
to 
when he decided to create this email gem called The Effective Emailer. Guy recites a dozen sensible and perhaps essential rules of email etiquette. I almost called this post: “Don’t FUQ with me and I won’t
Guy Kawasaki is quite extraordinary (click on his photo to see for yourself)… “evangelist, entrepreneur, investment banker, and venture capitalist” kind of sums it up but not quite. In his post today, he discusses The Art of Schmoozing… his list is not only consistent with some of the best academic work I have seen
Seth Godin provokes our thoughts with a very quick intellectual journey through service to expectations. In his post, What customer surveys measure, he teaches us not that serving and satisfying is impossible but that it is possible to do the former extremely well without doing the latter. TRANSLATION FOR LAWYERS: Excellent legal work is
