She’s already been the subject of a children’s book so it makes perfect sense that Lady Hale, immediate past-president of the Supreme Court, would star in the first episode of a new legal podcast for children.
Kids Law is the new podcast series from the Next 100 Years project, answering children’s questions about how the law works and how it affects them as they grow up.
The podcast is being hosted by nine-year-old Alma Constance – daughter of Next 100 Years founder and solicitor Dana Denis-Smith – and Lucinda Acland, co-author of First: 100 Years of Women in Law and presenter of the First 100 Years podcast. Alma decided to make the podcast when she discovered that she was about to reach the age of criminal responsibility (10, in case you were wondering) and did not know anything about what this meant in practice.
Leading industry figures tell Joanna Goodman what it takes to leap off the traditional career escalator into the fast-expanding world of legal innovation
While the pandemic has forced technology adoption, it has increased uncertainty for law firm associates, making the traditional path to partnership less clear. Remote working creates difficulties for on-the-job training – you cannot easily shadow a partner who is working from home. And job security is challenged too. The past few months have seen salary and partner distribution cuts. Scores of leading UK firms have made or are making redundancies, which include associates.
Joanna Goodman
Innovation and legal tech, however, are booming, bringing interesting career opportunities. Some legal tech start-ups have been acquired for sizeable sums, while others have established a firm foothold in the market. The pandemic has brought more investment into legal tech and innovation, and legal innovators and entrepreneurs seem to be eclip
CEO roundtable with Ari Kaplan: Lessons learned, silver linings and the road ahead
Ari Kaplan talks with his CEO roundtable.
One of the initiatives that Ari Kaplan Advisors launched in 2020 was a periodic Zoom-based CEO roundtable to discuss trends, challenges and objectives with market leaders.
During the fifth and final conversation of the year, Ari Kaplan reviewed lessons learned, silver linings and the road ahead with:
• Haresh Bhungalia, CEO of Casepoint
• Kiwi Camara, CEO of Disco
• Ian Campbell, CEO of iConect
• Craig Carpenter, CEO of X1
• Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support
• Steve Fredette, CEO of the BarBri Group
• Keith Laska, CEO of Hanzo
By Joanna Goodman14 December 2020
Embracing uncertainty can build resilience into your business strategy. Firms should focus on connectivity, communication and cloud to ensure robust systems are in place
Joanna Goodman
In The Biggest Bluff, author and psychologist Maria Konnikova explores the nature of risk and uncertainty by learning to become a professional poker player. Why poker? ‘At its heart, poker is a game of incomplete information,’ she wrote in an article for The Observer, explaining that learning poker taught her to rise above the noise and embrace uncertainty and lack of control over her future as a source of power rather than fear. Put simply, it taught her resilience.