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IBC National Conference 2024: Professional Insights in Leeds

On Saturday, November 9th, our team – Paul, Matt, Becky, and Nick – attended the IBC National Conference at the Aspire venue in Leeds. As

Inspiring Legal Minds at Chislehurt & Sidcup Grammar School

GRL Attends Annual Careers Evening at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School Paul, Matt, and Becky had the pleasure of attending the annual careers evening at

Marketing and BD at the Bar – Update

We’ve seen no slowdown in demand from our Chambers clients for talented individuals with the ability to lead and manage the development and evolution of

GRL – Proudly Sponsors the Bar Conference 2024 as Silver Sponsor

GRL was delighted to be ‘Silver Sponsor’of the Bar Conference 2024, held on Saturday, June 8, in Bishopsgate, London. The event kicked off with an

Retaining the Best – Why the Bar Needs to Act Now

There’s an increasing flow of talented people away from senior clerking and practice management positions in leading barristers’ chambers and into business development and leadership

GRL Sponsors the IBC Annual Conference 2023

GRL Sponsors and Attends the IBC Annual Conference GRL was proud to sponsor the IBC Annual Conference, held on Saturday, 18th November 2023, at the

Silver Sponsors at the LMPA Annual Conference

GRL – Silver Sponsorship of LMPA Annual Conference We at GRL were thrilled to announce our Silver Sponsorship of the LMPA Annual Conference, which took

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Criminal barristers vote to end strike over pay

Criminal barristers in England & Wales have voted to end their long-running strike action.

Living Wage Increase Announced

As the nation faces record levels of economic uncertainty, recent news from The Living Wage Foundation is a positive.

All change…..to as you were previously.

Queen Elizabeth II passed away this month and many things we’d taken for granted over her long reign are different.

5 Steps to Attraction

Robin Jackson, legal sector business consultant recently published an article for Counsel Magazine ‘Working without benefits’. In it, he discusses his employment survey of 1

Six simple steps to an impactful CV

In a candidate driven market, YOU need to stand out from other, similarly excellent candidates, but how? Our expert consultants continuously sift through many thousands

The Interviewee: Do’s and Don’ts

You’ve done the difficult part and secured an interview with a Company you’d really like to work for, but how to stand out and hopefully

Top Tips For Legal Directory Submissions

Legal practices continue to participate in the research process with a sense of expectation that the merits gained from this exercise will boost their market

Changing Routes To Markets For The Bar

Direct Access and Barrister led entities are increasing in the market – the observed effects, so far…… Holistic Change The legal world has been going

The Changing Face of The Bar

In what has become a rapidly changing and even more competitive time for the Bar, there have been some subtle but significant changes in the

Managing Stress in Chambers

Why is stress so bad? Stress is the body’s natural response to threat: real or perceived; physical or mental. In responding to threat our bodies

Resilience for Better Results

Making the case for Resilience The successful legal organisation’s mission seems simple enough: Know and Plan what you want to achieve; Recruit and Retain the

Lateral hires for the Bar

As the Bar continues to position itself in the ever-increasing search for new business and work streams; so, the lateral movement of barristers between chambers

The rise in BD and Marketing roles

It’s apparent to anyone working closely with the Bar that there’s been a major spike in both the number and seniority of recent BD and

Digital Marketing Jargon Buster for the Bar

The legal industry is changing at a rapid pace. Not many people know this, but it’s possible to an instruct a Barrister directly, cutting out

Changing roles in Chambers

Chambers have increasingly started to change their management structures to better align themselves with their clients’ way of doing business and more generally, to modernise

Business coaching: Debunking the myths

One of the biggest myths that clients have about coaching is that it is only used by organisations when their employees are failing in their

Building a LinkedIn presence

I was recently asked by the Institute of Barristers Clerks (IBC) to deliver a talk to its junior ranks on the use of Social Media