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Gloom is not doom! So think positive
4/01/2008
The new year is the time when newspapers’ crystal ball-gazing reaches its annual peak. It’s also the time of year when I’m asked what I believe the story for 2008 will be.As offices reopen across the country, the rather gloomy January...Offering hope in a troubled country
10/01/2008
In December, if you had asked the average person to name an African country that would shortly be on the brink of political and social breakdown, few would have guessed Kenya.Only four months ago I myself travelled to Nairobi to...Dodgy donations, wigs and bloggery
17/01/2008
The new year got off to a cracking start with political blogs falling over themselves to release analysis and snippets of news on donations to political parties. Stories about Lib-Dem and Tory alleged non-compliance seem to have dropped out of...Help is only a phone call away with the JLD….
21/01/2008
Today I read a story in the Water Cooler section of The Times about the new helpline set up by the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society – the successor to the old TSG and YSG – to help...Why one silk will not be signing the Legal Service Commission contract
22/01/2008
As part of my Weekend Review podcast, done through my 'Charon QC' blog for Consilio, I interviewed Simon Myerson QC.His views are robust. I have extracted his interview from the Weekend Review to allow you to listen to his views, should...Lessons from a private equity nightmare
23/01/2008
Last year might well go down as an annus horribilis for the private equity industry.A lucky few made some spectacular exits during the first half of the year (from investee companies, by IPO’ing or selling stakes in the managers themselves). Most...Ten (belated) resolutions for 2008
28/01/2008
Here are 10 resolutions I have made for the year ahead.I will make at least one associate happy every day by praising his or her work.I will update my 'To do' list first thing every morning and start work with...The Justice and the Baroness
28/01/2008
Two female judicial pioneers — one from the US and one from the UK — compared notes at Georgetown University Law Center last week and found they both had restroom stories to tell. “Everybody’s got a bathroom story,” said Lady Brenda...LawSoc keeps spotlight on the rule of law
29/01/2008
Yesterday evening I did a podcast interview for my online magazine Consilio and the Charon blawg over the internet with Andrew Holroyd, president of the Law Society (and fellow Legal Village blogger). Nothing remarkable in terms of the technology but what Andrew...The future of litigation is in our hands
29/01/2008
The generally positive reaction I have received personally from a range of practitioners who have read the report of the Commercial Court Working Party is most welcome, but it would have been disturbing, to put it mildly, had the reaction...
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