- Manchester Flower Festival - Financial remedy online service drop-in session - The SQE and Legal Apprenticeships: what are they and how can firms navigate the new legal education and training landscape?
- Personal Branding Unmasked: Busting the Myths That Hold You Back from Success
- Resilience – It’s all about squashing those ANTs
- Manchester Pride Brunch 2023 - Dates for the Diary - May Messenger - Introducing First AML
Why don’t you spend your bank holiday weekend at the Manchester flower festival from Friday 26 – Monday 29 May 2023.
The Manchester Flower Festival is a fantastic way to celebrate the start of summer and see Manchester in a different way. It’s free and open to everyone!
The flower festival celebrates diversity and the creativity of florists and gardeners. Showcasing the talent of different artists with floral arrangements, plants, landscapes, and passion gardening or just love nature. It’s also a great opportunity to explore Manchester's culture. It holds a lot of history, and you can see Manchester’s vision through flowers.
See the festival zone across the city centre where you will be able to walk around and see all the displays in shops windows and gardens. You can download the map here!
The Floral Marquee and fringe displays are where you can admire the stunning exhibitions of all the different flowers, plants and more. You can also buy plants and seeds from expert growers and get tips on how to care for them. This is a must-see for any flower lover!
The festival will offer opportunities to part take in various activities such as learning to get crafty with workshops, food stalls, live music, fun competitions, and entertainment for all ages. Find out more here.
Date: 31 May 2023 Time: 13:00-14:00 Location: Online Cost to attend: Free - book your place here
Applications for financial remedy must now be submitted online. Join us for a refresher on how to make an application and for guidance on which forms must be submitted to support your application.
There will be plenty of time for questions on the process and the online submission process.
Ahead of the session we strongly recommend that you take a look at the following guidance
Are you involved in therecruitment, training or supervision of trainees or newly qualified lawyers? Are you considering Legal Apprenticeships or any routes to law other than the LPC?
If yes to these questions please join us on 29th June where BPP University and firms from the North West will discuss their approach to the SQE.
We will discuss how they are managing the mix of LPC and SQE candidates, are they funding SQE1 and / or SQE 2, if they have embarked on recruiting Legal Apprentices.
The speakers and panel will address the challenges and opportunities presented by the new regime and attendees will be able to reflect upon what is right for their firm.
Date: 29 June 2023 Time: 14:00-16:45 Location: Weightmans, No 1 Spinningfields, Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB Cost to attend: MLS Members £20.00 + VAT (£24.00) Non-members £40.00 + VAT (£48.00)
Programme
14:00 Registration 14:30 What is the SQE and how does it impact on legal education and training? Key questions for firms to ask themselves. 15:00 How could Legal Apprenticeships work for you? 15:15 Q&A session on the SQE and Legal Apprenticeships 15:30 Break 15:45 Case studies and panel: What are firms in the North West doing and how is it going? 16:45 Networking drinks
Date: 21 June 2023 Time: 13:00-14:00 Location: Online via Teams Cost to attend: Free but you must book your place
What is personal branding and how can it support your success? Uncover the facts about personal branding with Phil Ossai at the first in our series of webinars.
What the session will cover:
Common misconceptions about personal branding
The true impact of personal branding on your career
Unpacking OSSAI’s 3C’s Framework in the context of personal branding
In 2022, Phil turned his passion for personal branding into a mission, founding OSSAI into a thriving six-figure personal branding agency. OSSAI, under Philip’s leadership, has enabled everything from small law firms to FTSE 100 companies to harness LinkedIn for business results that all professionals actually want: a tangible return on investment not on vanity metrics.
Date: 16 June 2023 Time: 13:00–13:45 Location:Online via Teams Cost to attend:Free but you must book your place
How you think about yourself and how you use your mind immediately affects your relationship with yourself and others. It can also have a dramatic effect on your own resilience levels.
To help you stay positive, Mike Ode from Potential Unearthed, will introduce you to several techniques that will help you to slam the brakes on when you have negative thoughts.
Understand how your conscious and subconscious brain work together (or not!)
Learn how to ‘Squash the ANTs’
Circles of Influence and Concern – Learn how to re-frame your thoughts
Learn how the ‘But technique’ can help you create positive pathways in your brain
Pathway thinking – How to change your mind set in three simple steps
Date: Saturday 26 August 2023 Time: 11:00 – 14:00 Location: Trafford Suite, The Midland Hotel, 16 Peter St, Manchester M60 2DS Cost to attend: £36.00 including VAT per guest Dress code: Pride Fabulous! This is not a formal event – dress to impress!
Have you decided how you’ll be celebrating Manchester Pride yet?
Why not come along, with your friends, family and colleagues, and join us for our exclusive Manchester Pride Brunch?
Taking place at the iconic Midland Hotel, we will kick off in style with welcome cocktail on arrival followed by a delicious brunch with a cash bar. Then watch the parade from our exclusive viewing area on the steps of the hotel.
This is the ultimate way to celebrate this year’s Manchester Pride – along with your friends, family, and colleagues!
We are delighted to welcome First AML as the newest members of MLS Advantage!
First AML is an all-in-one anti-money laundering (AML) platform. It powers thousands of compliance experts around the globe to reduce the time and cost burden of complex and international customer due diligence (CDD).
Its enterprise-wide, long term approach to the CDD data lifecycle addresses time and cost challenges while improving the customer experience as well as minimising compliance, reputational and security risks.
If you would like to hear more about how First AML can help you and your firm please contact Michelle Davie, Global Partnerships Manager on +447774404086 or michelle.davie@firstaml.com
