Across all sectors, brands more so now than ever are being encouraged to go beyond their traditional business interests and into the arena of social advocacy. Attributes of prominent social movement leaders correlate with those of lawyers and barristers. vernieragency.com/post/legal-sec…

New venture by @KarliaLykourgou of Doughty Street Crime, designing and distributing court dress for women. You can see products at @IvyandNormanton

Passionate and well delivered talk by @DexterDiasQC. A reminder that human rights lawyer's have a more uncompromising obligation to break the silence.

Congratulations to Catrin Griffiths for concentrating on the merit, not the mechanics and delivering #IHFS20 via a digital medium.

By outsourcing content writing, lawyers can focus on the business of law whilst content can be created to optimise a firm’s chances of visibility and winning work. vernieragency.com/post/outsourci… #Legal #Lawyers

“Lockdown has forced the profession to experiment with the idea of mass working from home. We should identify and bank the benefits. But we must guard against the risks, too.” Great piece in Counsel Magazine from the always brilliant Joanna Hardy-Susskind. counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/locke…

Somewhere out there, Shakira is advising on a real-estate trust acquisition.

Lives are being put on hold as a criminal justice system continues to over saturate. Unless things change, the situation will only get worse.

A look at Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns within the legal sector: vernieragency.com/post/pay-per-c…

This is not a drill! The Hogan Lovells duck is wearing a mask!

Change of pace this week...

I’ve spent countless hours in Exeter over the years putting pen to paper on initiatives, so great to see SLS Annual Conference put on the 111th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars virtually in these testing times.

Listening to an excellent podcast from Adam Brown for Jersey Finance (feat the fab Lisa Webley) covering #lawtech and #AI. Very well produced and look forward to more content in the future! jerseyfinance.je/our-work/lawte…

As Priti Patel doubles down on the “activist lawyer” narrative, a reminder that the Law Society just last week reminded the Home Office as to how the rule of law works.

Andrew Neil has folded this issue up like an accordion. And quite rightly.

A look at legal directories and their renewed importance. vernieragency.com/post/significa…

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Will be interesting to see what happens with the City of London / Services / Brexit over the next eight weeks. EU officials are concerned that deregulation would make the City more attractive to foreign investment. Odd because the UK wrote most of the European regulation.

“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap “I can see that,” responds judge