Here at Obelisk Support we’ve been working with returners to help them re-start their legal careers since 2010. To ...
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.
Mental health – a growing priority in the legal profession
On Monday the 10 October, we celebrated World Mental ...
Times are hard. Corporates are under pressure to keep ahead in the performance game while facing pressure from ...
Loneliness in the workplace
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on loneliness. ...
The power of diversity of thought. Creating a posture of thinking that is beyond ourselves
Leading a legal team or ...
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LEGALTECH Innovation 2021 Conference panel: Global business of ...
The new year brings a swathe of changes in the legal landscape, here in the UK and further afield. To help you ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ep. 35 - Flexible Working and Equality In The World Of Law: with Dana Denis-Smith of Obelisk Support and The First ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here at Obelisk we are always interested to meet lawyers-turned-entrepreneurs and are delighted to have had to ...
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
Are you up to speed with the new routes into the legal profession? It used to be that apprenticeship opportunities ...
2020It's time for our most popular piece of the year! After the success of our 2018 and 2019 lists (plus a beach ...
Touching on topics as important as diversity, equality and justice, Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and ...
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 ...
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 look at the impact of culture on law firm performance and highlight four key pillars of firms’ future success. (Published June 2019)
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 ...
Lawyers have long had a strong connection with literature, with many famous and prolific authors having led a previous life in the legal industry. So to celebrate World Book Day 2018 with a legal twist, Obelisk Support decided to track down a practising lawyer who is also carving out a career as a published author. Laura Montgomery is an American space lawyer and she very kindly accepted to share her thoughts on her work as a space lawyer and as a science fiction writer.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...