- Management Conference 2023 - Fit for Law – Working With Others - What does happen at a joint meeting of experts? - UK Supreme Court Judical Assistants Event - Dates for the Diary
- February Messenger - MLS Court Report Journal Issue 9 -Performance management for remote and flexible teams
Date: 15 March 2023 Time: 09:00 to 16:30 followed by a drinks reception Location: Manchester Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel, Water Street, Manchester, M3 4JQ Cost to attend: MLS Members £120.00 + VAT (£144.00)
Non-members £160.00 + VAT (£192.00)
Join us for a day of discussions and solutions to the challenges facing law firms today.
Chaired by John Hyde, Deputy News Editor at the Law Gazette, the conference will be examining everything from the effective use of AI to improve staff engagement, the top 10 Compliance Hits for 2023, staying cyber secure in a more flexible workplace, client retention and much more!
Our keynote speaker is Simon McCrum, author of The Perfect Legal Business.After a decades-long track record of getting things right and wrong as a law firm owner, and after years of working with myriad law firms of all shapes and sizes, he is well-placed to look at firms to see if they are chasing the right things or are ignoring elephants in the room – at a time when law firms need to be at the top of their game.
This conference has been curated for:
Managing partners
Business services professional
Practice managers
Heads of HR
Finance and Innovation
CEOs
Those with management and compliance responsibilities
‘Fit for Law – Working With Others’, developed by the University of Sheffield and The Open University in collaboration with LawCare.
This second part of the Fit for Law series, focuses on how you can apply emotional competence and professional resilience to improve your ways of working with others. It provides the opportunity to think about how you work with clients, including managing expectations, establishing boundaries and in particular working with difficult or vulnerable clients. It also encourages you to consider how to work with colleagues, and other professionals, as effectively and supportively as possible.
This launch webinar will take you through the key components of Fit For Law – Working With Others.
Speakers:
Dr Emma Jones, Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of Student Wellbeing for the School of Law, University of Sheffield
Dr Neil Graffin, Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University
Dr Mathijs Lucassen, Senior Lecturer Mental Health, The Open University
Dr Rajvinder Samra, Senior Lecturer in Health, The Open University
Niamh Warnock, Engagement and Relationship Manager, LawCare
This free online event will take place on 8th March from 12:30 to 13:30.
Through the medium of role play Mark Underwood and Adam Smith, Forensic Accounting Directors with BDO, will demonstrate how a joint meeting should be and how it should not be conducted.
Marlon Underwood and Alvin Smith are engaged as Expert witnesses in a shareholder dispute which has allegedly caused substantial financial losses to the Petitioner.
The Experts have been ordered to meet at BDO’s offices in Manchester on Tuesday 28 March 2023 at 17:30 to attempt to narrow their areas of difference and set out their reasons for non-agreement.
The Experts will demonstrate, via two role plays, how an Experts’ Meeting should (and should not!) be conducted. Marlon Underwood and Alvin Smith have agreed to allow their (many) instructing solicitors to be present at the meeting.
Pre-meeting drinks will start at 17:00 and the event will be held in person at BDO, 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3AT.
This is a free event but numbers are limited so please click here to reserve your place.
Date: 8 March 2023 Time: 18:00 to 19:00 followed by a drinks reception Location: St John's Buildings, 24a-28 St John Street, Manchester, M3 4DJ Cost to attend: Free to attend but places are limited and you must book in advance
Join us to hear from The Right Hon Lady Rose of Colmworth, Justice of the Supreme Court and current and former Judicial Assistants on what the role entails and how to apply for the 2023 vacancies.
18:00 Introduction – Chris Maile Head of Human Resources 18:05 The Right Hon Lady Rose of Colmworth, Justice of the Supreme Court 18:15 Nigel Patel, Judicial Assistant to Lady Rose 18:25 Emma Ainsley, Judicial Assistant to Lord Hodge 18:35 Margherita Cornaglia, Former Judicial Assistant to Lord Kerr 18:45 Q&A 19:00 Close and drinks reception
Information on the available opportunities can be found here. Applications are open now and close on Thursday 30th March 2023.
Places are free but limited and must be booked in advance. Secure your place by emailing ChandreMay@manchesterlawsociety.org.uk This event is kindly hosted and sponsored by St John’s Buildings Barristers Chambers
Remote and flexible working are standard. But how do you measure how well your people are performing, without micro-managing?
Weekly10 is an employee engagement and performance management app available in Microsoft Teams. It gives managers a framework to give their employees feedback which improves performance. Here’s how it works:
Feedback
Employees complete a short weekly check-in, giving them time to reflect on their achievements but also realign their upcoming priorities. Their manager responds with feedback, helping their people to make small, manageable change that sticks.
Manager benefit: Check-ins shows managers who’s struggling or excelling. There’s no need to chase for updates and feedback is given quickly, helping people make better decisions faster.
Purpose
Employees must understand how their work contributes to business goals: we do that using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Objectives give employees autonomy, allowing them to prioritise their work.
Manager benefit: Managers see how each person is regularly progressing against goals. And help realign if they’re off track.
Recognition
Lack of recognition leads to attrition. Check-ins encourages peers to call out great work publicly (or privately if preferred). Employees feel valued and appreciated as their successes are shared.
Manager benefit: Managers see who’s going over and above. Something that’s easily missed when you’re working remotely. It could be a sign of an unfocused employee or someone who can’t say no, so watch out for this too.
Conversations
Check-ins build your employee’s body of performance evidence every time they check-in. So there’s no scrabbling round the day before a review.
Manager benefit: You already know progress against goals and personal development targets (if they’ve been checking in). There’s no nasty surprise during your 1:1s. Which become more strategic and you’ll both be able to focus on what’s next rather than what’s been.
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