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.
There but for the grace of God…
There but for the grace of God… Over the last few weeks we have been able to read the judicial and regulatory consequences of lawyers behaving badly. Not badly in the sense of running off with client funds, nor badly in the sense of giving negligent advice badly, but losing their sense of professional obligation… More
Innovation – of course, it’s what we all do, isn’t it?
It won’t be long and once again our thoughts will turn to what will be new in the next twelve months; what innovation will we see, what new gadgets and ideas will come forward, who will make a break-through with something that will astonish us all? In legal services we have had a decade or… More
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck
“A general counsel should never talk like a lawyer, or think like one.” I came across a debate on this statement on Twitter a little while back. One of the more perceptive responses to the Twitter discussion came from UCL’s Professor Richard Moorhead, who queried what would become of a profession “… if being effective… More
IT: The challenge is clear, the prize is big, the race is on…
Technology plays an increasing role in all our lives and to a large extent we welcome this as an opportunity and an essential need. We see this in our obsessive updating of phone-camera-music devices, to our use of tablets, laptops and the development of home entertainment systems. We spin around the latest gadgets and functions… More
Being a good client
There seems always to be an awful lot of (often awful) discussion about the engagement of external law firms by in-house teams. Most of it concerns the charging model adopted by law firms. However, rather than contributing yet another piece on the iniquities and inefficiencies of the hourly rate, the mythology of alternative fee arrangements… More