136 episodes
Tips for Lawyers Podcast Chris Hargreaves: Lawyer (attorney)
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5.0 • 13 Ratings
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The Tips for Lawyers show is here to provide lawyers with the tools they need to thrive in legal practice.
It's to fill a gap in the training of law students, lawyers and attorneys: practical legal skills and training.
Lawyers and attorneys for a long time now have begun to ignore or avoid the skills and knowledge that are being utilised by businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world.
For some reason, we seem to think that we are special in legal practice, and avoid taking on board skills that could help us develop better relationships with clients, more valuable endeavours for our law firms, and better outcomes in terms of profit.
The Tips For Lawyers show will deal with topics that allow us to improve our communication skills, our marketing and business development (or rainmaking), our productivity as lawyers, time billing and recording, persuasion and advocacy, legal writing skills and drafting, and an abundance of other ways in which lawyers can be more personally productive, useful and beneficial to their firm and their client.
The show also deals with the struggles and issues that young lawyers face in getting through day to day practice.
Subscribe today - and see how you can genuinely love a legal career.
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How much Initiative is Too Much?
We all want to do the job properly and comprehensively, but at what point should you draw the line when it comes to chasing down the answer to every thought you have in a given task?
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How can Young Lawyers Work more Efficiently?
It's a common issue for young lawyers - it just seems like everything takes much longer than it "should". So how can we be working towards more efficiency in our practice?
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Should Lawyers Write with Contractions?
In "legal writing" (whatever that means) should we be using contractions? Some seem to be firmly against, and others much more casual about it all.
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How to Write a better Advice
Many young lawyers come out of law school with a lot of knowledge and
the ability to put together a sound legal opinion on a given topic.
But when it comes to communicating that to the client... it all goes to
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You Need to Ditch these Law School Habits
During law school you developed some tactics, habits and strategies designed to work within the system and maximise your results.
Some of them aren't going to translate well into legal practice.
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Careful Who you Take Wellness Advice From
Should you take advice from people who haven't themselves thrived in the legal profession?
Customer Reviews
Great podcast for lawyers
Some helpful guidance and sound advice on how to navigate life as a lawyer. Recommending listening for all who have / want a career in law.
Truly great work
This podcast has accelerated my legal career and revolutionised my attitude to the business of law - I cannot thank Chris enough for his expert advice. I would urge any lawyer, law school student or even any aspiring entrepreneur to listen to as many of Mr Hargreaves’ focused thoughts as is possible. Genuinely, every episode offers great insight that is often instantly applicable.
Superb
Very helpful to me as a (fairly) newly qualified lawyer. Attending Law school and having a good understanding of black letter law only get you so far in the thick almost impenetrable fog of attempting to appeal to so many disparate actors upon qualification. I have recently moved to an in-house counsel role and so it would be useful to hear podcasts or a section within each podcast on how to manage the differing dynamics that that encompasses (where obviously distinct from private practice). Thank you so much for your time.