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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ace your interviews
To maximise your chances of securing freelance legal roles, there are some key ...
In this special episode of Legally Vocal, celebrating International Women’s Day, guest host I. Stephanie Boyce ...
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 ...
Hello again home working!
Once again workers in the UK and many other countries worldwide find themselves ...
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 ...
Our free guide to help you work out whether working freelance is right for you. With advice and insight from existing consultants as well as Obelisk experts, it’s your action planner for your move into legal consulting.
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 ...
The best ways to build stronger relationships at work
Building stronger relationships at work is an essential ...
Lawyers with side-hustles: Obelisk Support recently caught up with Ivan Guevara, a senior corporate and commercial ...
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 ...
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 ...
Be they lawyers by day, legal superheroes by night or pro bono lawyers who are passionate about making the world a ...
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 ...
Guest post by Niamh O’Keeffe, Leadership advisor & author of ‘Your First 100 Days: how to make maximum impact ...
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.
Around 2013, a new kind of flexible worker emerged on the photo-sharing social media platform, Instagram. Taking ...
On The Attic, we recently looked at curbing legalese and why more and more lawyers and businesses are making their ...
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)
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 ...
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.
With the billable hour and a culture that is still dominated by presenteeism, how can you progress in your legal ...
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 ...
How many hours are being lost in your organisation due to un-flexible working practices? That’s the question we ...
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 ...
This blog is a tribute – just not one to my mother, as you would expect on this Mother’s Day. It is a dedication ...