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.
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
How to standout on LinkedIn
(Much) more than just a way to share your CV with the world, LinkedIn is a key tool ...
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.
The SQE: An opportunity for transformation
My previous article spoke about what the Solicitors Qualification ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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LEGALTECH Innovation 2021 Conference panel: Global business of ...
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 ...
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 ...
We all want to improve our lives, so why can it be so difficult to make lasting changes?
In our latest Move the ...
The new year brings a swathe of changes in the legal landscape, here in the UK and further afield. To help you ...
How self-awareness creates inner resilience
It's natural to experience some apprehension when going for interviews ...
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 ...
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 ...
The best ways to build stronger relationships at work
Building stronger relationships at work is an essential ...
In celebration of International Women's Day, Natalie Kan of SCL Student Bytes talks to:
Catherine Bamford, CEO and ...
Why do we need legal design?
Lawyers are very familiar with providing legal texts which are accurate and ...
Lawyers with side-hustles: Obelisk Support recently caught up with Ivan Guevara, a senior corporate and commercial ...
Ep. 35 - Flexible Working and Equality In The World Of Law: with Dana Denis-Smith of Obelisk Support and The First ...
This blog post was updated on 2 March, 2021
Zoom, the video-conferencing solution of choice during the ...
The legal tech skills that today's generation of leaders have learned have evolved and tomorrow's legal leaders ...
At The Attic, we are always interested to talk to people doing interesting things in the legal industry, so we ...
Our free guide to getting ready to come back to work in the legal industry, packed with tips from our experience of working with returners like you and inspiring stories from some of our Obelisk consultants
Around 2013, a new kind of flexible worker emerged on the photo-sharing social media platform, Instagram. Taking ...
The legal blogsphere is thriving, with ever-more law bloggers stepping up to discuss taboo topics and change the ...
We already know the modern work paradigm is shifting; sitting at a desk in an office from 9 to 5 is no longer the ...
We are delighted to have Louisa Van Eeden of Lexis Nexis UK join us as a guest blogger on The Attic. Her first ...
We look at the impact of culture on law firm performance and highlight four key pillars of firms’ future success. (Published June 2019)
With the billable hour and a culture that is still dominated by presenteeism, how can you progress in your legal ...