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Why I’m Leaving Legal Practice (sort of)

Chris Hargreaves - 5
Recently I completed my last day as a full time employee of a law firm. I've got to say - it's a strange feeling, because...
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Legal Career

3 Lessons I was reminded of while I was sick

Chris Hargreaves - 6
I've been unwell for the past few days. It's been a decidedly unpleasant experience, but I wanted to try and make something useful out...
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Legal Practice

My Love/Hate Relationship with Email

Chris Hargreaves - 2
I love email. And I hate email. I like to think that I'm not alone in this.  Email has offered legal practice huge benefits in legal...
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Legal Career

Practical Training for Law Students (AKA – where have articles of clerkship gone)

Chris Hargreaves - 6
I had a very interesting conversation recently with somebody who has an important role in the training that is given to law students and...
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Legal Career

Lawyers should be more Intolerant

Chris Hargreaves - 0
Intolerance is wonderful.  In fact I would almost go so far as to say that being intolerant is one of the more useful characteristics...
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Legal Career

Take the Training Wheels Off your Legal Career

Chris Hargreaves - 7
It has occurred to me over the last little while that I've never really written a "manifesto" for this site.  Many writers (or bloggers...
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Communication

How to be Persuasive P2 – Know your Enemy

Chris Hargreaves - 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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Communication

How to be Persuasive

Chris Hargreaves - 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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Legal Career

Does Your Career Plan Work for You?

Chris Hargreaves - 5
"Career Plan" sounds like one of those pieces of paper (much like a "marketing plan") which is produced with a mammoth amount of effort,...
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Legal Practice

Passionate Professional or Pitiful Plodder?

Chris Hargreaves - 3
The news is not good:  when asked, most lawyers find most parts of their job, and most of their clients, "tolerable", "acceptable" or "terrible"...
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Legal Practice

Lawyer – Still a Noble Profession?

Chris Hargreaves - 8
Lawyers, by and large, cop a fair battering from media.  After all, media about lawyers ripping people off, betraying trust of their clients, acting...
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Legal Career

Is University failing us?

Chris Hargreaves - 7
University degrees are failing up and coming professionals by not teaching the skills they need to flourish in the workplace. To some, this opinion will...
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Legal Practice

How to Catch an Egg without Breaking It

Chris Hargreaves - 0
Knowing how to go about approaching your first legal file (or files) with a minimum of risk, especially if your first file is inherited, can be...
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Should you Just Phone Your Opponent?

Chris Hargreaves - 0
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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Legal Career

Or… We Could Just Fire You Instead

Chris Hargreaves - 1
Recently I took a bit of a shot at law firms trying to pretend that their COVID-related pay cuts came with associated reduced working...
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Legal Practice

40% Pay Cut, 140% Full Time Load

Chris Hargreaves - 0
It's been fascinating watching law firms react (in advance) to what they believed was going to be the horror story of COVID-19.
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Continuing Legal Education

How to Make the Most of Your CLE

Chris Hargreaves - 0
Attending any kind of continuing legal education can feel like it was largely a waste of time - even if it came with a...
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Legal Career

Legal Careers Are Awesome

Chris Hargreaves - 4
Recently I mentioned what I thought was a fairly self-evident concept: being a lawyer is actually pretty challenging. If...
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Should you Just Phone Your Opponent?

Chris Hargreaves - 0
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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Or… We Could Just Fire You Instead

Chris Hargreaves - 1
Recently I took a bit of a shot at law firms trying to pretend that their COVID-related pay cuts came with associated reduced working...
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