So, a loved one is a lawyer? Naturally, he or she has already got everything, even, in today’s world, a good PR advisor. But there’s more to life than hourly charge-out rates, conditional fee arrangements and image. There’s reading. Here are the Magnificent Seven Christmas Books for Lawyers. 1. Weird Cases by Gary Slapper. Weird [...]
At some stage in the future, a learned professor of media studies will write a paper on the evolution of journalism’s newest staple, the list. Early, embryonic lists will be analysed for form, content and style. Their later incarnations will be scrutinised for the mark of the author. In lists of extreme weather events, the [...]
The Times has beaten us to it. Click here for the paper’s recommended Christmas law books. Swordplay’s own favourites will be online tomorrow.
Blade is following Conrad Black’s attempt to secure early release from prison closely. He confesses that he derives a vicarious interest in the affair, having once, as a solicitor, acted for one of Black’s adversaries in a dispute which though irredeemably mired in quotidian contractual nitty-gritty saw emotions reach the stratosphere. Blade notes, then, that [...]
Check out if this post from Legal Blog Watch summarising the discussion of a New York City panel of general counsel, law firm partners and legal profession observers. The topic under debate? What the law firm of the future will look like. Consensus among the panel was thin on the ground but there are some [...]
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Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).