- June Messenger out now! - Manchester Legal Awards: are you ready? - Revised Guidance – CVP and BCM - Volunteers needed - The SQE and Legal Apprenticeships: what are they and how can firms navigate the new legal education and training landscape? - Personal Branding Webinars with Phil Ossai - Resilience – It’s all about squashing those ANTs - Dates for the diary - SearchFlow Summit 2023 - Insights & Innovation: Transforming the Real Estate Sector
Get your shoes shined and your glad rags on! It is only six sleeps to the Manchester Legal Awards!
To all those up for an award: we wish you the best of luck! It is a great accomplishment to get shortlisted so whether you win or not do celebrate with your colleagues and be very proud of your fantastic achievements.
A massive thanks to all our sponsors, supporters, judges and nominees. We couldn’t do any of this without you all.
Keep your eyes peeled next week for the list of winners!
Guidance regarding Court attendance by CVP was last issued during the Covid crisis and now requires updating. Similarly, it has become clear that the revised Better Case Management scheme, in operation since mid-January, should be accompanied by an indication of local policy.
Attendance by CVP has enabled much work to be done that otherwise could not have been, and it is recognized that “remote” attendance is now a permanent feature of Crown Court proceedings. That said, attendance by CVP can be sub-optimal and where attendance by CVP is permitted it is to be emphasized that attendance in person will always be preferred. Advocates should attend in person if they can, even for the type of hearing for which prior permission to attend by CVP is not required.
The revised BCM handbook, with which all practitioners will now be familiar, somewhat changed the BCM landscape. The intention was and remains to focus on making the PTPH hearing in any case sent for trial as effective as possible, whilst recognizing that the efficient conduct of cases requires, in most instances, further pre-trial hearings.
This revised guidance will come into effect on Monday 5 June 2023 in each of the Greater Manchester Crown Courts.
Afghan lawyers and judges have had to leave their country because of the threats they suffer from the Taliban. Judges and prosecutors who tried and prosecuted members of the Taliban are particularly at risk. It is extremely difficult to leave, often after a period of hiding.
One Afghan lawyer has reached Manchester and is living in a hostel. His name is Samiullah Mohammadi. He studied Law and Political Science and was a prosecutor in Afghanistan. He has some English and would like work shadowing and/or mentoring opportunities to help him understand the English legal system.
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
We are delighted to announce a series of personal branding webinars with Phil Ossai.
In 2022, Phil turned his passion for personal branding into a mission, founding OSSAI into a thriving six-figure personal branding agency. OSSAI, under Phil’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.
In partnership with Manchester Law Society Phil will be sharing how to build and shape your personal brand to improve your career prospects and visibility with your colleagues and clients.
All the webinars are free, held from 13:00 to 14:00 and take place on Teams. If you would like more information on the sessions or book your place please click on the links below:
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
Join us to gain the latest insights on global market trends, legal innovation, and transformation in the real estate sector from key industry speakers such as Paul Tostevin, Director of World Research at Savills and Angharad Davies, Real Estate Council at Fujitsu.
Agenda for the day: 12:45pm: Registration and networking lunch. 13:45-14:00pm: Introduction - Rob Steadman, Sales Director, SearchFlow. 14:00 -14:30pm: Global Real Estate: Trends and Prospects - Paul Tostevin, Director of World Research at Savills. 14:30-15:00pm: cotGPT: Impact of Generative AI on Real Estate Law - Joe Cohen, Head of Innovation at Dentons 15:00-15:30pm: Tea and coffee break. 15:30-16:00pm: Creating Trust in Society and Cyber Security Risk - Angharad Davies, Real Estate Counsel at Fujitsu, and Paul Senior, Director of Security for the Services Industry at Fujitsu. 16:00-16:30pm: Future Digital Trends and Digital Twin - Jason Shepherd, Director of the Digital Twin Programme at Fujitsu. 16:30pm: Summary and final comments - Rob Steadman, Sales Director, SearchFlow. 17:00pm: Networking drinks on the rooftop. We’ll head up to the hotel’s Upper 5th Rooftop bar for drinks, canapes and entertainment from a magician, whilst taking in the panoramic views of the City of London’s skyline.
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