Post by nickd on Apr 5, 2012 16:26:01 GMT 1
Will Cinderella ever get to go the Law Society ball?
The long and short of it is it seems the slipper will never fit!
Substitute our fictional Cinderella for a group of - not so glamorous but loyal and hard working - social welfare law practitioners and ask yourself, will the slipper ever fit such that they get an invite to the Law Society ball?
Divide and rule seems to breaking out all over the place, and may even be apparent in legal circles when it comes 'to meeting the challenges of the future and what the legal profession can and must do to meet them'. "The Law Society is launching an Annual Law Conference in September 2012, the first of which promises to be a landmark event for the legal services industry. The broad theme of the conference will be the challenges of the future and what the legal profession can, and must do to meet them. The conference will be aimed at senior and managing partners in the larger law firms and at general counsels.
The goal is apparently to offer a cutting-edge programme featuring world-class speakers on issues that will help solicitors working in the UK and abroad develop professional skills; sustain and grow their businesses during these turbulent economic times, and position the legal profession of England & Wales as a 'thought leader' to government and the wider business community.
At up to £725 a ticket, it would blow our IT office budget for a whole year so I'll give it a miss. Besides which, I'm not that enthralled by the menu: I can't see anything about corporate law eagerness to embrace some sense of social responsibility on there!
It's becoming increasingly obvious that the justice mandate is all to do with wealth generation & very little to do with the basic principles upon which I thought law was founded - justice for all. Justice for the poor is fast becoming a thing of the past as our top law firms lead us in to a world of corporate celebrity status law suits; all heard in very nice oak panelled space-age courtrooms decked out with the latest in computer tech.
For those of you who want to pop along, you even get sent away with a nice packed lunch...
annualconference.lawsociety.org.uk/default.aspx?tabid=529
If you can stump up the cash here's who you'll be listening to
Guest Speakers
Ashley Almanza, executive vice president and former CFO. BG Group
Shami Chakrabarti, director, Liberty
Elisabeth Davies, chair, LSB Consumer Panel
David Edmonds, chair, Legal Services Board
Lee Gage, general, counsel and company secretary, Ben Sherman Group
Desmond Hudson, chief executive, The Law Society
Michael Napier, former chairman, Irwin Mitchell
Sandie Okaro, general counsel, Baring Asset Management
Bridget Prentice
Eddie Ryan, managing director, Co-operative Legal Services
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, vice president, The Law Society
Peter Solmssen, general counsel
Wil Whitehorn, Former President, Virgin Galactic
John Wotton, President, The Law Society
The long and short of it is it seems the slipper will never fit!
Substitute our fictional Cinderella for a group of - not so glamorous but loyal and hard working - social welfare law practitioners and ask yourself, will the slipper ever fit such that they get an invite to the Law Society ball?
Divide and rule seems to breaking out all over the place, and may even be apparent in legal circles when it comes 'to meeting the challenges of the future and what the legal profession can and must do to meet them'. "The Law Society is launching an Annual Law Conference in September 2012, the first of which promises to be a landmark event for the legal services industry. The broad theme of the conference will be the challenges of the future and what the legal profession can, and must do to meet them. The conference will be aimed at senior and managing partners in the larger law firms and at general counsels.
The goal is apparently to offer a cutting-edge programme featuring world-class speakers on issues that will help solicitors working in the UK and abroad develop professional skills; sustain and grow their businesses during these turbulent economic times, and position the legal profession of England & Wales as a 'thought leader' to government and the wider business community.
At up to £725 a ticket, it would blow our IT office budget for a whole year so I'll give it a miss. Besides which, I'm not that enthralled by the menu: I can't see anything about corporate law eagerness to embrace some sense of social responsibility on there!
It's becoming increasingly obvious that the justice mandate is all to do with wealth generation & very little to do with the basic principles upon which I thought law was founded - justice for all. Justice for the poor is fast becoming a thing of the past as our top law firms lead us in to a world of corporate celebrity status law suits; all heard in very nice oak panelled space-age courtrooms decked out with the latest in computer tech.
For those of you who want to pop along, you even get sent away with a nice packed lunch...
annualconference.lawsociety.org.uk/default.aspx?tabid=529
If you can stump up the cash here's who you'll be listening to
Guest Speakers
Ashley Almanza, executive vice president and former CFO. BG Group
Shami Chakrabarti, director, Liberty
Elisabeth Davies, chair, LSB Consumer Panel
David Edmonds, chair, Legal Services Board
Lee Gage, general, counsel and company secretary, Ben Sherman Group
Desmond Hudson, chief executive, The Law Society
Michael Napier, former chairman, Irwin Mitchell
Sandie Okaro, general counsel, Baring Asset Management
Bridget Prentice
Eddie Ryan, managing director, Co-operative Legal Services
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, vice president, The Law Society
Peter Solmssen, general counsel
Wil Whitehorn, Former President, Virgin Galactic
John Wotton, President, The Law Society