When you start a business, you cannot be the lawyer; you cannot be the accountant; you cannot be the networker, the one that sells, and the producer. You need a team…nobody can do all those things well”. Avoid thinking: “I want it to happen fast; and if it doesn’t happen ...
In London in 2003, even in more traditional offices temperatures were exceeding these limits. It was also suggested that more breaks and a more relaxed dress code would help considerably. One employment lawyer suggested that employers should think twice before sacking staff who walk out of their ...
“What they care about is law: they don’t want to get sued.” As an ethicist and, like all healthy people, a patient in waiting, I believe strongly that doctors should provide medical care to a high ethical standard. Yet, as a lawyer, I am aware that many ethical violations have ...
route charity which was formed 30 years ago. One of their projects was turning an old rail line between Bristol and Bath into a bike route. Other bike-friendly cities in the UK include Cambridge and York. Cambridge is an old city but has still managed to build good cycle systems and ...
Down through the years, the Laws had been written, and endlessly updated, by lawyers. A lawyer's instinct is to be bulletproof and fireproof and idiotproof. Their first instinct is not to be user-friendly. Simplicity worries them. They are happier in a world of paragraphs and sub-paragraphs...
Geraldine recalled that the process was very much like delivering a court judgement and that it was very hard for her to side with her mother as her father was a very good orator, like an extremely good lawyer, and by comparison, her mother was "exceedingly weak". Moreover, Geraldine was...