In various posts last year I highlighted the views of Casey Flaherty, General Counsel of Kia Motors America, Inc. Casey espouses the view that lawyers who want to work for his company need to understand that the world has changed and that with it comes the responsibility to understand the contribution which technology can make… Read More »
Of all the poems I was made to learn at school, few have remained with me as much as Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur. I cannot help but be moved by the opening lines: “So all day long the noise of battle rolled, among the mountains by the winter sea”. Lovers of legend will remember how the fatally… Read More »
What clients want is a fence at the top of the cliff rather than an ambulance at the bottom. Richard Susskind’s analogy, accompanied by the appropriate slide, the contents of which I will leave to your imagination, was one of a number of catchy themes he used to describe the changing world of legal services… Read More »
Slaughter & May hosted the latest meeting of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum on March 17th. The theme of the evening was “Litigating in the 21st Century” and there was a huge turn out. Perhaps this was not surprising as the speakers were Professor Richard Susskind OBE and Robert Graham-Campbell of Maitland Chambers. The aim of… Read More »
On reading Chris Dale’s recent post (Who needs a bridge when the river goes away? Sept 17th ) and marvelling at its wonderful pictures of the splendid arches standing serenely redundant in a field while the river flows elsewhere, I was reminded of one of my favourite sonnets, Ozymandias by Shelley. You all know the… Read More »