Communication

Your Soft, Cuddly Self – A Lesson in Emotions

Chris Hargreaves - April 14, 2014 2

I've written about this a few times now - that connecting with your clients on an emotional level, as well as the logical, can...

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Assignment to Advice – 5 Tricks to help Transition from Student to Lawyer

Chris Hargreaves - March 31, 2014 4

One of the things that many recently employed graduates and newly admitted lawyers struggle with is their legal writing style. In my view there are...

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How to be Persuasive – A Final Story

Chris Hargreaves - March 25, 2014 0

Your ability to communicate your message in a persuasive way is paramount when it comes to turning the tide of opinion. We started by looking...

Communication

How to be Persuasive P2 – Know your Enemy

Chris Hargreaves - March 21, 2014 1

Sun Tzu in The Art of War said: “It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled...

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How to be Persuasive

Chris Hargreaves - March 19, 2014 2

Let's Start with a Wedding... Maybe Michael and Jane have been dating for about 3 years, and they are madly in love. Michael wants to...

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Recurrent Writing is Really Relevant

Chris Hargreaves - March 14, 2014 5

How much do you write in a day? What is it that you produce, and how do you go about planning it? Today I...

Communication

The Big Secret of Dealing with People

Chris Hargreaves - February 28, 2014 2

Lawyers deal with people. All the time. In fact, it's pretty much our job to deal with people. Previously I've described it as communication,...

Communication

Do you “Own the Room” in meetings?

Chris Hargreaves - February 24, 2014 1

There is a difficult transition which all lawyers make at some point or another. It is where you go from being a dormant, mute...

Communication

Communication Skills for Lawyers – Why are people always so dense?

Chris Hargreaves - February 18, 2014 1

Have you ever felt that the message you were trying to communicate was simply not getting through? Me too. Now in my case, of course,...

Communication

Write an Article that isn’t terrible

Chris Hargreaves - November 20, 2013 0

Very quickly in your legal career you will likely be asked to help write an article for distribution to clients or contacts of the...

Communication

Legal Drafting – The Ultimate Guide to Writing like a Lawyer

Chris Hargreaves - November 18, 2013 13

Why is legal writing so hard? For anybody who is not a lawyer and doesn't have to do legal drafting, you'll just have to trust...

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Ah yes, the great joy of the litigator: writing unbelievably long-winded letters back and forth for months to set out why your client is...

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Recently I mentioned what I thought was a fairly self-evident concept: being a lawyer is actually pretty challenging. If...

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