10x that is insane!!
I’ve got 4x plus 2 life covers but hoping to amalgamate those early this year.
Finish companies have good financial benefits as a rule of thumb
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Unless you have a kayak and a ticket to Panama…
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MML, multiple of my guys thinking its a Bank Holiday today so have just not showed up… They all got a rather abrupt awakening when my boss and I phoned them!
Three of them were out last night so have had to use a day’s AL 
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get into the office this morning - no network.
most people are complaining about the lack of coffee machine though and having to make do with instant coffee instead!
I’d down tools at once!
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MML. Went to work today.
Discovered I’m on leave today - and tomorrow. I just forgot to put it in my diary.
Boss has sent me home but is crediting me a half day back for “showing effort above and beyond”. Double win.
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most went to the tea option instead!
Got up, looked outside, told my students not to bother, went back to bed
I’d be the same. I don’t do instant ‘coffee’.
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I didn’t realise this was the “Overheard in Waitrose” thread.
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Managed to settle both my morning hearings in the advocates room. Now to go see what’s on at the cinema before my afternoon hearing.
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You Git. My trial is standing up, despite all my efforts to undermine it.
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So, what % of lawyering is trying to avoid lawyering?
The more I learn or hear the higher my own estimate goes.
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The less you have to do, the better for your client. Always good to reach a settlement out of court and avoid rolling the dice with a judge.
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Guaranteed it’s a lower percentage than the amount of project management that is avoiding project management…
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Most of it to be honest.
Harvey Spektor always spoke of trials as a failure. The only cases that should really be going to trial are the truly balanced cases. I like this idea and try to avoid trials wherever possible.
Failed today though…
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Trials only happen when either the Defendant or the CPS are being ridiculous in my experience. People who are stone bonkers going not-guilty or the CPS charging people with the wrong offence, when they would get a plea to an alternative charge with similar sentencing guidelines.
Some call the CPS as ‘Couldn’t prosecute Satan’.