In this section we have collated all the previously published articles and blogs written by Paul Gilbert, Jonathan Smith and guests.
This is a resource for you to browse and is free to view. The first articles were published in the early 2000’s, but retain a relevance that is still valid and informative today. The later pieces reflect the changing face of the legal profession and the threat/opportunity for the role of lawyers in business and in our society.
We hope you will find that their opinions add to the debates of the day and inform, challenge and occasionally provoke. Please also join them in that debate on Twitter and follow Jonathan @jdsofislip and Paul @LBCWiseCounsel.
#LawFest 2014 – it happened because you came
We kept our promise… It definitely was “not a conference”, but a place to connect, share, engage, and enjoy. It was about a commitment to serious and genuine personal development, not tired format CPD. It was about challenge, not a tick box. A place where students and law firm partners, professors and trainees, in-house and judges… More
Thank you LawWorks
My note To Chairman of LawWorks Paul Newdick CBE following my last Trustee Board meeting on 16 July 2014. Dear Paul, Thank you for your kind and generous words at the Trustee Board meeting last evening. They are not deserved, but they are appreciated. I have been a trustee for ten years and consider my… More
#LawFest – not just fun
I have been asked a lot about the idea for LawFest …and been told a lot that it is brave (which my head de-codes as “foolish”). It is true that the idea started as a conversation about a particularly dull conference for lawyers – Politbureau talking heads at the front, overwhelmingly dull presentation slides, dull… More
Profit and Loss
Avid readers of the English legal press may recently have seen a lot of agitation about an international law firm, Dentons, and one of the commonly seen measures of law firm financial performance, PEP (profit per equity partner – in the USA, PPP). The agitation concerned Dentons’ refusal to provide an American legal magazine, American… More
Being different isn’t…
Being different isn’t different. We are all different. It is easy to be ourselves, to be different. Trying to conform is so much harder than being different. It takes us away from what we truly are, it takes energy to conform, energy we cannot use being ourselves. Yet for most of our working lives we… More