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		<title>Why commercial law is not a life sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this special guest post, leading commercial lawyer Peter Goodman reflects on recent press coverage on the working life of commercial lawyers and argues that the practice of commercial law isn&#8217;t half as bad as we are given to believe&#8230; Commercial Law gets a very bad press amongst lawyers mainly, I suggest, because of its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=410&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City lawyers and the meaning of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with interest the recent article in Legal Week “Hard work without meaning is a prison – does City law pass the Gladwell test?” which examined why commercial lawyers might be unfulfilled personally and intellectually. The article is very welcome, not least because it dares to say what many lawyers think but are afraid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=402&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who the heck hires a law coach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 13:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many lawyers are out there battling all sorts of disadvantages &#8211; stress, low confidence, poor self-management, lack of direction to name but a few.  And yet lawyers seem not to know about how a coach or mentor can help.  Ironic really, considering so many lawyers could benefit enormously.  So if you haven&#8217;t come across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=397&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How hiring a mentor takes the pressure off</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is written about the need for lawyers to improve their management skills.  It is broadly acknowledged that management is not one of the skills which come most naturally to lawyers.  We receive little training in it and spending time “mentoring” a junior member of the team can sometimes feel forced or difficult. It would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=379&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers of the future&#8230;it&#8217;s ok to have vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it seems that the national brand Quality Solicitors is growing fast with the front page of yesterday&#8217;s Law Society Gazette reporting that QS has opened 100 new branches showing that it is likely to become a major market presence in the not too distant future. I was interested to read this article by Quality Solicitors&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=367&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind maps, argument mapping and what else we should teach lawyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t read this great blog post by @legaleagleMHM then now is the time.  I am a fan of @legaleagleMHM&#8217;s blog because she has no problem whatsoever in admitting to doing things differently - radical and refreshing. In that post she writes about the usefulness of mind maps, and it caught my attention because I use them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=353&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where life and work merge&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Julian Summerhayes writing on Excellence in Professional Practice. It is perhaps overstating the position, but I firmly believe that our work is our life or, certainly, a very large part of it. And that is not just because it takes up such an inordinate amount of time but we get so much from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=342&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity in redundancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The numbers of lawyers facing redundancy is continuing to rise and as the profession undergoes fundamental changes over coming months and years more and more lawyers will find themselves in the midst of restructuring. Redundancy is an incredibly stressful time and when the job market is quiet you can find yourself in a state of panic, desperately applying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=332&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with stress is easier than you think</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t surprised to read in The Lawyer the results of another survey concluding that lawyers are affected by stress at work.  The latest findings by Michael Page conclude that lawyers&#8217; stress peaks on Tuesdays but if responses on twitter are anything to go by, the other days of the week are no party either.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=322&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers online. Now, it&#8217;s personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CatrinMills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am inspired by the latest post from @LegaleagleMHM  http://legaleaglemhm.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/top-tips-from-the-law-society-of-scotland/mentioning a debate amongst Scottish law students about lawyers&#8217; use of social media and whether a solicitor&#8217;s personal life should affect their professional reputation. I would have liked to hear the debate because this is a question which has occupied me almost constantly since I discovered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelawyercoach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9163363&amp;post=301&amp;subd=thelawyercoach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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