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How Do We Achieve 'Authentic Leadership' in the Law?

14th November 2019
So far in this series we’ve explored key benefits for senior lawyers of ‘brain-based’ mindfulness training: mental resilience for managing workplace stress; critical thinking skills; and ‘emotional intelligence’ (EQ) to enhance negotiation and litigation skills.
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EY Aided the Laundering of Drug Money, But Who's Really to Blame?

8th November 2019
A recent investigation by the BBC and Premières Lignes has uncovered that one of Britain’s biggest accountancy firms aided the laundering of drug money.
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Big Rise in Businesses Taking Legal Action on Late Payments

6th November 2019
Two in five small business owners (40%) say they are taking legal action against customers not paying them on time and many bosses are foregoing their own salary in order to ensure their employees get paid on time.
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KPMG Tops Up Legal Team with Former Law Society President

4th November 2019
Big Four accountancy and auditing firm KPMG recently hired ex-president of the Law Society, Christina Blacklaws, for the role of ‘legal services ambassador’ as it pushes further into the legal sector.
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73% of Law Firms Are Making This Mistake on Their Websites

1st November 2019
The best law firm websites don’t need to look fancy- but they do need to rank on Google. Afterall, what good is a sleek website when no one sees it?
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3 in 4 US Lawyers Feel Like Harvey Specter

30th October 2019
A poll of US and UK lawyers reveals attitudes about the ‘human’ element of the profession. Most respondents saidf their work-life balance was good, posisbly on a par with Harvey Specter, the fictional protagonist and lawyer from USA Network’s popular show Suits.
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Critical Thinking Skills Are Vital to Working in Law

29th October 2019
Lawyers hardly need explaining why these are so vital: legal practice requires highly developed cognitive abilities – for information retention and retrieval, analysis and interpretation, decision making, argumentation, etc. Legal training develops these abilities to a high level.
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