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Ways to beat the credit crunch (Pt 1): become a Playboy model
December 4, 2008
With pundits, tipsters, charlatans and columnists all predicting mass unemployment and economic meltdown on an unprecedented scale for 2009, UK lawyers are wondering what to do if the axe falls.
Some - but not all - might like to emulate Oona O’Connell. As Above The Law has it, Ms O’Connell is a “fabulously glamorous young lawyer […]
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Weathering the storm at the Financial Times
December 4, 2008
Roy Greenslade writes about a remarkably sensitive, but nevertheless tangible, piece of cost-cutting by the FT in an interesting post over at Media Guardian.
The FT has gone about its preparation for 2009 - by common consent among publishers, a year that will be far worse than this one - not by stripping its editorial staff […]
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An evil lawsuit?
December 4, 2008
As we stagger onward into the 21st century the tension between rights holders and consumers grows by the day. The former cling to antiquated, 300-year-old notions of copyright while the latter, taking advantage of technology that couldn’t even have been imagined when copyright came into being, believe that the phrase ‘rights holder’ means that everyone […]
Written by admin · Filed Under Legal Business
The year of living dolefully - but not for freelancers?
December 3, 2008
According not merely to this piece from The New Statesman but just about everyone in the world, 2009 is set to be dominated by unemployment.
Unemployment, already higher than at any time since Labour came to office in 1997, is expected to climb to almost three million by 2010, according to the Confederation of British Industry. […]
Written by admin · Filed Under Communication, Wealth Management
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It is often said that there is no surf worthy of the name in Britain. If you want to practise what Jack London famously described, on visiting Hawaii in 1911, as “the sport of kings”, you’ve got to go to, well, Hawaii. Or California, Australia and South Africa. Maybe, at a push, France, but not, […]
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Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting. The white paper is available for download here.
Now available for download here is Spada’s latest white paper. Entitled ‘The Laity Bytes Back’, the paper looks at Web 2.0 and the professions.
In this paper, published in the International Journal of Business and Economics, David Brock, Tal Yaffe and Mark Dembovsky scrutinise large law firms, their strategies and measures of their effectiveness.
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke, MD of Spada, looks at how US law firms should approach hiring a UK PR agency. The piece is reproduced from Strategies - The Journal of Legal Marketing by kind permission of the Legal Marketing Association.
Towards 2012 - The New Legal Landscape
Spada’s white paper on the impact of the Legal Services act is now available to download here. The research recently featured on the front page of the Law Society Gazette.
Information Inflation: Can the Legal System Adapt?
George L. Paul, a partner in Lewis and Roca, LLP and Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, discuss the “new inflationary dynamic” of information in this article from the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. How do vast quantities of new writing forms challenge the legal profession, and how should lawyers adapt?
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