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Why is establishing a referral network essential for M&A or Corporate Finance Lawyers?
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Why is establishing a referral network essential for M&A or Corporate Finance Lawyers?

Are you a lawyer who is involved in deal making, i.e. M&A, Private Equity, Financing? You’ll know the importance of working to establish a referral network. This is because the route to generating work for deal makers is typically via an introducer or referral network. This blog post looks at a particular and common mindset…

20 Tips for courteous office behaviour if you want to make partner
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20 Tips for courteous office behaviour if you want to make partner

This is a guest post is by Katherine Everitt-Newton, a resilience coach. A chance encounter in the office triggered this post on Courteous Office Behaviour. Being liked and respected by your peers and colleagues goes a long way to helping you get to get noticed for partner track and make partner. Courteous behaviour is just…

5 practical steps to going back into a partnership after a career break
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5 practical steps to going back into a partnership after a career break

Whatever your reasons for taking a career break, it can be daunting to start the process of getting a role back in a partnership. It’s fairly common to be worried about: are my technical skills up-to-date? it’s a challenging time for getting a new job, will it be possible for me to actually get a…

5 ways to turn a weak team into a strong team
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5 ways to turn a weak team into a strong team

Every firm has some parts that work well and some that don’t.  If you have realised that your team is struggling and not doing as well as you’d like, you are probably wondering how you can work with them to get them performing better. Improving team performance is a great idea and one that will…

Why so many professionals feel they need to go for partner even though they know its not for them
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Why so many professionals feel they need to go for partner even though they know its not for them

I’ve had many of conversations with people about their future career plans. This blog post explores why it is so hard to not want to go for partner even when you know it’s not the right thing for you. The problem You’ve been in professional practice for pretty much all of your working life. That…

What is more important; your Personal or Business Case for partnership?
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What is more important; your Personal or Business Case for partnership?

The partner track process will assess both your Personal Case and Business Case for partnership. The Big 4 and large law firms will typically assess formally both your Personal and Business Case. However, the smaller or mid-tier firms may only formally assess your Business Case. The Personal Case will be assessed informally.  It tends to…

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4 very unusual tips to help you use your performance appraisal to get what you want and need from your firm

In this post I share the advice I have given to several clients about how to get exactly what they want and need from their annual performance appraisal or as it is sometimes called performance review.  How to prepare for a performance appraisal I’ve got a confession to make. I never really liked having my…

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How to make partner lesson 2: Thinking and feeling like a partner

In summer 2016 Heather Townsend revealed the 10 lessons that every potential partners needs to learn to an audience of 200 lawyers and accountants. In this short 2 minute video clip, Heather talks through the second lesson – thinking, feeling and acting like a partner The road to partner is shrouded in mystery and conjecture. This…

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What to do if clients keep mistaking you for the junior member of the team

  This is a common occurrence experienced by women in professional services sectors, particularly when meeting a brand new client or new client team members. It comes from the unconscious bias that the man must be the more senior person. This is extremely frustrating and can potentially cause several issues including: Your personal frustration and…

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