What did you do this morning? Likely as not you logged on, opened up your email account and sighed at the amount of spam clogging up your inbox. But spam isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And hot on the heels of revelations that two lawyers started it all, we thought it was high time for [...]
Blade has often suspected that there is more to Facebook than meets the eye. His fears are confirmed by this interview in the Guardian with Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Ms Sandberg happily confirms that the social networking site is “trying to change the world”, a project which is apparently meeting with “some success”.
She [...]
Swordplay commends Alex Wade’s piece in the Times today on the slow death of the high street law firm. The article is doubly interesting for its human subtext, for the central focus of Wade’s piece is his father Tony, a sole practitioner for 36 years. We suspect the piece was not altogether an easy one [...]
Now in its second year, the Times’ list of the 100 Most Powerful Lawyers in the UK makes for enjoyable reading. The usual suspects are there and yet everyone who works in the law, or who has any knowledge of it, can no doubt think of someone who really should have been included.
Which begs the [...]
Blade enjoys this robust debate on ‘millennials’ – lawyers under the age of 30 who are allegedly so obsessed with their own all-important work/life balance that serving clients is not merely a poor second but actually an unknown concept.
With Tesco law looming, the debate is far from fanciful.
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.