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Communication

The Only Thing you Need to have Happy Clients

Clients can seem like complicated, insane creatures at times. One moment they want this thing, then they don't. They say something is urgent, but it's...

Legalese – Everything you Need to Know

If you're going to be a lawyer then at some point you're going to have to come to grips with legalese. Hopefully that's not because...

A Lawyer’s Real Job is to be a Translator

Communication skills are important for anyone in the legal profession (which is why I keep writing about them). In fact, I personally believe that communication...

The Trump Factor – A Lesson in Bravado and Base Instincts

So if you stopped paying attention yesterday for a bit, then you might have missed the fact that Donald Trump just became the next...

5 Simple Strategies to Write Legal Letters

Have you ever drafted a letter only to find that your partner or supervisor picks up a series of problems that you wished you had...

Why the Freshfields removal of “Dear Sirs” is a Complete Failure

You might have seen it in dispatches, but the other day apparently Freshfields directed all the people who work there to stop using "dear...

4 Typos To Rule them All

Have you ever stopped to consider just how important typos are? Well... you have now! Why Typos are So Important to Everything OK, so as I...

How Long should a Legal Letter of Advice Be?

From Homer's Odyssey to the shortest stanza, legal letters have a tendency to vary wildly when it comes to length. So how long, really, should...

3 Compelling Reasons to Stop Writing your Speeches Out in Full

It never ceases to amaze me just how many lawyers continue to give presentations where they have written out every single word, and they...

7 Things you must Unlearn from Law School

It's no great secret that I have an uncomfortable tension with university education. For lawyers, it's a mandatory and expensive barrier to practice. So after...

Stop Producing Boring Content!

For the love of everything, could we please (you know - as a profession) stop producing content that sends people to sleep. I know -...

Communication Techniques of Effective Advocates

Advocacy is a pretty important subset of communication, and using proper techniques as an advocate can really help you deliver an effective and persuasive...

7 Communication Techniques for Writing a Great Letter

Letter writing is one of the most important skills a lawyer can develop, since we are writing letters (or something resembling them) basically every...

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