Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have become key drivers of corporate strategy and success. e explore three ways in which legal teams successfully support their organisation’s ESG strategy
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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have become key drivers of corporate strategy and success. We explore three ways in which legal teams successfully support their organisation’s ESG strategy
Access to justice is a basic human right – one that shouldn’t be determined by a person's financial situation. The ...
Here at Obelisk Support we’ve been working with returners to help them re-start their legal careers since 2010. To ...
Conscious Leadership
It is funny, most of us go through our leadership and management journey without any formal ...
Anxiety is the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2023. We explore anxiety in the legal profession with practical advice from lawyers for lawyers on how to manage anxiety, plus highlight valuable resources and support.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have become key drivers of corporate strategy and success. e explore three ways in which legal teams successfully support their organisation’s ESG strategy
With King Charles III's Coronation on Saturday the 6th of May, the UK will experience its first such ceremony in ...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have become key drivers of corporate strategy and success. e explore three ways in which legal teams successfully support their organisation’s ESG strategy
Your CV - 3 ways to make your CV be the best
We were delighted to host our first “Move the Needle” event for our ...
The legal profession is constantly evolving, and with that comes new opportunities for lawyers, paralegals and ...
As a corporate legal team or law firm looking to rebalance your workload, access specialised expertise, or scale ...
Returning to law after a career break
The reasons behind taking a career break are many and varied. Perhaps ...
How to standout on LinkedIn
(Much) more than just a way to share your CV with the world, LinkedIn is a key tool ...
Legal and regulatory developments to stay ahead of in 2023
As 2023 gets underway, several forces – from ...
Freelance lawyer? Top trends and growth areas in the flexible legal sector. As we look ahead to a new year, Laura Vosper, Head of Talent at Obelisk Support and Jane Leader, Recruitment Manager, look at some of the trends and growth areas for freelance lawyers in the flexible legal service sector.
How female legal leaders can make a difference
Obelisk Support recently held an event for our “Women Who Will – ...
Celebrating Women Who Will
It is crucial that we celebrate the successes of women in the law. As Ruth Bader ...
Diversity: why it's crucial to the legal profession
In recent years, the legal profession has received ...
Mental health and the legal industry
Each 10th October, we celebrate World Mental Health Day and this year's theme ...
Mental health – a growing priority in the legal profession
On Monday the 10 October, we celebrated World Mental ...
Trailblazing is not a phase
In the United Kingdom, fewer than 3% of all lawyers are Black according to the ...
The SQE: An opportunity for transformation
My previous article spoke about what the Solicitors Qualification ...
The Drive to Survive: the secret behind being number one
Standing proud as the world's most prestigious motor ...
Boundaries: The secret to achieving more
Boundaries are the rules for how others learn to behave around you, how ...
The SQE: The cusp of real transformation
It’s an exciting time when you think we could be on the cusp of real ...
How mastering emotional intelligence can shape your leadership
The Obelisk Support Women Who Will classes of ...
Building an inclusive, values-driven, and purpose-led legal profession
What spurned the passion to build a ...
Times are hard. Corporates are under pressure to keep ahead in the performance game while facing pressure from ...
Whether you’re planning on lounging at home or braving a trip overseas, it wouldn’t be summer without our team’s ...
The benefits of a positive mindset for legal consultants
The nature of consultancy work requires legal ...
Supporting access to justice
This week over 12,000 people, including a team from Obelisk Support, took to the ...
June is Pride Month, and this year’s theme – #AllOurPride – celebrates events in history that are meaningful for ...
The role of a General Counsel continues to evolve beyond providing legal services and acting as a trusted advisor ...
The Next 100 Years: Building a legacy to be proud of
Women In Law Kent held a virtual live event to talk to ...
Is the legal industry adapting quickly enough to meet new demands driving the future of work?
The future of ...
How to build resilience for sustained performance
For many of us, macro factors such as the ongoing ...
Loneliness in the workplace
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on loneliness. ...
Encouraging women in legal leadership
Obelisk Support recently hosted our inaugural event for our “Women Who Will ...
The power of diversity of thought. Creating a posture of thinking that is beyond ourselves
Leading a legal team or ...
Setting yourself up for success
Obelisk Support’s L&D Partner, Lucinda Acland, explores the seven things ...
Championing diversity and inclusion in law
To celebrate Women’s History Month, we spoke to Clare Belcher, Group ...
Women in law: Two decades. Two perspectives.
During March, in which we celebrate both International Women’s Day ...
“Voices for action against racism” – advocating for ethnic diversity in law
March is not just a month to celebrate ...
Ace your interviews
To maximise your chances of securing freelance legal roles, there are some key ...
International Women’s Day 2022: Celebrating Women in Law
I.Stephanie Boyce, President of The Law Society of ...
In less than a week of war, over 1 million people have been made refugees
For many, joining the legal profession ...
Supercharge your freelance legal career
As a freelance lawyer or paralegal, you have control over how you work. ...
Beat overload with our favourite time hacks
Next week sees the likely end of almost all Covid-related restrictions ...
The Attic recently caught up with Charity Mafube, a paralegal in the Obelisk consultant community, to discuss her ...
Evidence is mounting that the legal profession needs to rethink culture and traditional working practices to ...
We all want to improve our lives, so why can it be so difficult to make lasting changes?
In our latest Move the ...
How to standout on LinkedIn
(Much) more than just a way to share your CV with the world, LinkedIn is a key tool ...
The new year brings a swathe of changes in the legal landscape, here in the UK and further afield. To help you ...
The new year brings a swathe of changes in the legal landscape, here in the UK and further afield. To help you ...
Hello again home working!
Once again workers in the UK and many other countries worldwide find themselves ...
Real-life tips for building commercial awareness
Having commercial awareness is a skill sought after by in-house ...
As a business or law firm, you’re operating in a world of rapid and disruptive change. To ensure your organisation ...
Does the legal industry have a problem with feedback?
Anecdotally, yes. Frequently in-house lawyers complain that ...
In light of the increasing urgency around climate change, sustainability has been on the minds of business and ...
Eleven insights from eleven years in business
With a certain football match being played just before Obelisk’s 11t ...
Campaigning for LGBT+ equality
As it’s Pride month, we wanted to celebrate some of the projects and campaigns from ...
The ground breakers who are making D&I a top priority
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is on everyone’s ...
How can social media help you stand out in the crowd?
The number of training places in law firms and ...
Digital disruption is the transformation of business by the emergence of new business models enabled by new ...
Asking questions about ageism
There is a lot of focus, and rightly so, on the challenges young people face on ...
The best ways to build stronger relationships at work
Building stronger relationships at work is an essential ...
Women lawyers writing on life in the law and more
Given lawyers work so closely with words and people, perhaps ...
Tapping into the trends changing legal work right now - part one
To discuss how the impact of the pandemic ...
Why do we need legal design?
Lawyers are very familiar with providing legal texts which are accurate and ...
Five main trends in legal operations that affect in-house lawyers
We caught up with Mo Zain Ajaz, founder ...
Lawyers with side-hustles: Obelisk Support recently caught up with Ivan Guevara, a senior corporate and commercial ...
This is a guest post written by Nicola Evans
“Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be Supreme Court ...
Obelisk Support recently caught up with Carolyn Swain, a senior lawyer who is currently on sabbatical undertaking ...
This blog post was updated on 2 March, 2021
Zoom, the video-conferencing solution of choice during the ...
2020The legal blogosphere is thriving, with ever-more lawyers, writers, bloggers and journalists stepping up to ...
We were delighted to welcome three of our own Obelisk consultants, who balance their work as lawyers alongside ...
What's coming next for in-house counsel?
As many countries around the world start to share details of their “exit ...
The legal tech skills that today's generation of leaders have learned have evolved and tomorrow's legal leaders ...
Be they lawyers by day, legal superheroes by night or pro bono lawyers who are passionate about making the world a ...
At The Attic, we are always interested to talk to people doing interesting things in the legal industry, so we ...
Every year for World Book Day, we feature lawyers turned authors on The Attic. In the past, we've interviewed a ...
Here at Obelisk we are always interested to meet lawyers-turned-entrepreneurs and are delighted to have had to ...
Are you up to speed with the new routes into the legal profession? It used to be that apprenticeship opportunities ...
Eoin O’Shea qualified as a barrister in his native Ireland, before moving to London and starting his working life ...
2020It's time for our most popular piece of the year! After the success of our 2018 and 2019 lists (plus a beach ...
How are women lawyers portrayed by British TV writers?
We looked at how American female lawyers have been ...
Touching on topics as important as diversity, equality and justice, Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and ...
Continuing learning and professional development for lawyers? With this guide, learn how to keep up and put tools and strategies in place to ensure you are up to date and don’t miss the key developments in your practice area.
The Attic recently spoke with Jacqueline Bell, currently a partner at Dentons in Amsterdam, and previously a ...
At Obelisk Support, we receive CVs of returning lawyers regularly, most of them accompanied by notes explaining ...
A good playlist can turn chores into a dance party, power you through your work-out and make that 3-hour document ...
Around 2013, a new kind of flexible worker emerged on the photo-sharing social media platform, Instagram. Taking ...
This week, The Attic speaks to John Craske, Head of Innovation and Legal Operations at CMS, about his thoughts on ...
With Earth Day 2019 behind us, we are reminded that climate action is not an occasional task; it requires an ...
The Attic recently spoke with Jasper Teulings, general counsel of Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. With a ...
Be they lawyers by day, legal superheroes by night or pro bono lawyers who are passionate about making the world a ...
The legal blogsphere is thriving, with ever-more law bloggers stepping up to discuss taboo topics and change the ...
With St Patrick’s Day just around the corner on March 17th the world is gearing up for the #GlobalGreening, in ...
Times have changed since 1959 when Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to endure a particularly cringy professional ...
Are podcasts a part of your daily life yet? Research suggests that there are over 630,000 podcasts in existence ...
We already know the modern work paradigm is shifting; sitting at a desk in an office from 9 to 5 is no longer the ...
Which were your favourite legal blog posts on The Attic this year?
Here, we highlight the Internet’s pick of ...
We are delighted to have Louisa Van Eeden of Lexis Nexis UK join us as a guest blogger on The Attic. Her first ...
We have noticed a lot being written recently about professional ghosting. Though not necessarily a new phenomenon, ...
Physical fitness and wellbeing usually does not rank very high in lawyer priorities. As previously mentioned in a ...
At Obelisk Support, we work more and more with legal operations departments in companies and recently attended a ...
What do most people picture when they think of what a women lawyer wears? If we go by popular culture, a super ...
As a woman-led alternative legal services provider seeking to change the culture of a notoriously patriarchal ...
Many of us dream of making the world a better place , but how can lawyers use their skills to give back to the ...
Part of the online media landscape for over a decade, legal podcasts have really only become mainstream in the ...
With the billable hour and a culture that is still dominated by presenteeism, how can you progress in your legal ...
Former Obelisk Support interns Maxie Chopard and Keshara Hallock take us through the portrayals of women lawyers ...
Legal blogs, or blawgs as they are sometimes known, are changing the way that law is discussed and debated in the ...
At a recent client event, Obelisk Support welcomed one of our most interesting guests to date--Claudio Illuminati, ...
We recently looked at some positive trends in the legal industry concerning the rise of women in law, but talent ...
The judiciary was once a male-only bastion. Times have thankfully changed and with that, the female presence in ...
Curiosity may have led the cat to its demise, but being curious and pushing the boundaries of our creativity is ...
We often hear people referred to as being high in emotional intelligence, but what does it actually mean? Being ...
How many hours are being lost in your organisation due to un-flexible working practices? That’s the question we ...
How do lawyers behave when the commercial drives of a business push the boundaries of ethical conduct? This is the ...
Now that December has arrived, it’s a natural time to reflect on the past 12 months and focus on your fulfilled ...
Maintaining focus on personal priorities and authenticity made me a better lawyer, says Terry Miller OBE
“My ...
Am I surprised to learn that working mums earn less after having a baby? No – just surprised that it’s taken this ...
This blog is a tribute – just not one to my mother, as you would expect on this Mother’s Day. It is a dedication ...