If anyone is interested in why I became a sole practitioner and then went on to develop my online service, see this post which I wrote for American lawyer and blogger Susan Cartier Liebel. Susan has developed a consultancy helping American lawyers who are tired of ‘big law’ and want a life, to go solo.
A busy time recently. For my sins I am the Hon Secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society, and I have been very busy dealing with the launch of our new web-site, which went live on Monday. The site not only has more information for the public and members than our old site, but…
The telephone rang just now. “Hallo” said a male voice, “can I speak to your senior partner please, if he’s in” “You can speak to me”, I replied, “I’m the sole practitioner” He put the phone down. Was it, do you think, because I am female or was it because I am a sole practitioner?
Not a good day today. Problems with my website not working properly and people not sorting it in time to let me to get things done before the weekend, problems with other people not providing me with drafts when they said they would (so I had to draft them at short notice myself), problems with…
I see that my very first blog entry was on Friday 17th February last year – so this blog is now one year old! Its been quite fun so I expect I will continue.
This weekend my office is going to be re-decorated. Put simply like that it doesn’t sound very momentous. Just a short simple sentance. But it has been and will be a major operation. It has had to be planned like a military campaign. Nothing has been done to my room for years and years so…
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The Cutty Sark remembered
Coming as I do from south east London (where the taxis don’t go after midnight) I was devastated to learn about the Cutty Sark fire. I have often been there in the past, and only last year we visited it, at the request of my son, while on a family weekend holiday in London. Here…