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What’s the best bit about being a self-employed Consultant Solicitor?
I was asked that last Friday at The Thrive Effect Female Founders Brunch in aid of International Women’s Day & my instant answer was “being my own boss”. Being in control of your working day is undoubtedly the working ideal. It doesn’t mean you work any harder or any less hard, it means you get... Read more »
What does being a Consultant Solicitor sound like to you?
Too good to be true? Too much like hard work? An excuse for someone to take 30% of your hard-earned fees for nothing? All of the above? When informally polling professionals about consultancy in the legal profession, some people asked me why a solicitor wouldn’t just set up on their own as opposed to working... Read more »
Retirement for solicitors – From all to nothing
I’ve worked with many excellent solicitors as they have approached retirement. They are the ones we turn to for their sage wisdom and years of expertise. Then the firm announces that they are retiring and *puff* they are gone. What a waste of experience, often just because the partnership deed says they must bow out... Read more »
DON’T GO IN-HOUSE, GO HOME (& work from there)
It was reported in last week’s Law Society Gazette that more & more senior associates are defecting from private practice to work in-house. Why? Work/life balance of course. This report probably reflected new year resolutions to re-balance life, to try & claw back a bit of personal time and space without compromising being a solicitor.... Read more »
You don’t need to have a child to enjoy flexible working
Having children is not a pre-requisite for working flexibly. There are many child free solicitors who crave a more flexible working life. Some practices look at those solicitors askance, wondering why on earth they need to work flexibly when they don’t have children to worry about. Imagine what it must be like to want to... Read more »
Dads who are solicitors deserve to have it all too
I often write about solicitor mums, but I didn’t want this to be to the exclusion of dads. To suggest that solicitor dads don’t need the representation in the legal profession that mums do, wouldn’t sit comfortably with me. Feminism is incredibly important to me, but it is a means to equality, to which dads... Read more »
How I Am Changing Women’s Lives – One Solicitor At A Time
New Year, New Life How I Am Changing Women’s Lives – One Solicitor At A Time I guess that might be a bit of a sweeping statement, but it’s not untrue. And it started with my own. I had become a cliché of the working professional mother. Stressed, tired, guilt-ridden and unfulfilled. Every weekday had... Read more »
Life now as a flexible working Consultant Solicitor
Enjoying the change I could probably wax lyrical for pages about how happy I am that I have made the break away from traditional legal practice. In case you’re about to check out my employment history on LinkedIn, I’m always at pains to say there was absolutely nothing wrong with the firms I practiced at... Read more »
How to grow your new business
Spreading the word It was always of huge importance to me to let everyone know what we were doing. I knew the structure and offering of Cognitive Law wasn’t unique, but it’s not the norm, and I maintain that it’s a bloody good idea. So, once we had our model in place, it was a... Read more »
Starting to see a difference
It’s always rewarding when you start to see the fruits of your labour. That doesn’t have to be purely financial, it certainly wasn’t just that for me. Granted I do earn more money than I did before, which is great, I’m not going to lie. But the biggest benefit has been to my non-working life.... Read more »