Monthly Archives: February 2012

Occupy: a civil disobedience campaign to change the world or just a camp site?

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

On Monday night, just after midnight, the police and bailiffs moved in to evict the anti-capitalist protestors from the Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral.  The protestors stressed their action wasn’t over but most did not resist the arm … Continue reading →

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The partnership problem

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

It has long been apparent to anyone with an ounce of business sense that, by and large, partnerships are not the best way to run a company.  There are, naturally, exceptions and I am not going to take issue with … Continue reading →

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When is a job not a job? When it’s ‘work experience’

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

I could have been a lawyer.  I don’t mean in the way that anyone could, in theory, become a lawyer if they wanted to.  I mean because I went to Oxbridge and I came from a family who could afford … Continue reading →

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Fired because of Facebook?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Hard as it may be for anyone under the age of 30 to believe, when I started work there was no such thing as social media.  In fact, there was barely even email.  I remember trying to send my first … Continue reading →

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Why lawyers will never be Cameron’s Valentine

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

I doubt there was much of ‘that lovin’ feeling’ at the Law Society on Valentine’s Day.  Despite all its efforts to woo the prime minister and his henchmen from the Ministry of Justice, it was defiantly excluded from the much-publicised … Continue reading →

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