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Taking Silk Part 2: Getting Competent in the Competencies

Be more Silk-Like Given that the King’s Counsel Panel “are looking for evidence of strong and consistent excellence across all of the competencies”,

Taking Silk Part 1: “Be more Silk-Like” and other KC Success Strategies

Be more Silk-Like Given that the King’s Counsel Panel “are looking for evidence of strong and consistent excellence across all of the competencies”,

International Women’s Day 2026: Reflections and Results

Busy-ness March is always SUCH a busy month, and a month where it can sometimes feel like I have a year’s worth of work all shoe-horned into one.

Returning to Law After a Career Break: Return and Rise

Read my latest guest article for Thomson Reuters Practical Law PLC Magazine in which I explore how lawyers, together with key people at their law firm
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Work Out What You Want…to set goals and make progress to achieve them

Perhaps you are feeling stuck, or that you’ve lost your usual “get up and go” enthusiasm for the job? Working out what you want

Practical Problem Solving for Parental Pressure Points

Read my latest article for Counsel Magazine, from the Parenting Special edition, on Practical Problem Solving for Parental Pressure Points, here:

Workplace Wellness that Works within Law: Chronicle Law Guest Article

  Workplace Wellbeing that Works: Beyond the wellness tick box Follow the link to read my Guest Blog for Chronicle Law looking at practical,

Thriving at the Bar as a Working Parent: Strategies for Barristers and their Clerks to Balance Parenthood and Practice

Career Break Return Success Returning to the Bar after a career break is a major milestone. You may have supportive clerks adapting your workload

Starting Down the Road to Silk? Here’s where to start…

King’s Counsel Application Timeline It’s Easter time, and the King’s Counsel Appointments Panel have just released the updated application form for

Bridging the Legal Profession’s Career Break Gap: Chronicle Law Featured Guest Article

Bridging the Career Break Gap in Law Read my latest Guest blog for Chronicle Law concerning ways to close the career break gap within law, including
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Lawyer Parent Survival Guide: 10 Sanity-Saving Summer Holiday Hacks

Six weeks. Forty-two days. More than one thousand hours. However you count it, the school summer holidays can feel like an endurance test for working

Making the Leap to a New Practice Area – Recent Counsel Magazine Article Contribution

Read my latest contribution to Counsel Magazine, here, where I contribute to an Article by Jacqui Thomas KC considering practical ways in which to

Avoid Overwhelm: 6 strategies to avoid overwhelm & improve workplace wellbeing – Guest Article for LawCare

Avoid Overwhelm Check out this Guest Article written for LawCare sharing six strategies to avoid overwhelm and improve workplace wellness through a

Four strategies to successfully navigate career breaks in the legal sector – Guest Article for LawCare

Successfully Navigating Career Breaks in the Legal Sector Check out this Guest Article written for LawCare sharing four strategies to successfully

Clerking Through Career Breaks: The pivotal role of clerks in the making (or breaking!) of a barrister career break returner’s practice

Reasons to be cheerful When I hear the positive, good news stories of how returns done well, with the support of Chambers’ clerks, have reaped
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Accelerate Action: Harnessing Ten Top Life Lessons for International Women’s Day 2025

International Women’s Day 2025 is all about action— taking, and accelerating, it and, consequently, making a tangible difference. The challenge
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Women’s Wellness at Work Part 2: 6 additional strategies to overcome common threats to wellness focusing on mindset and confidence

This blog should be read in conjunction with Part 1, published December 2024, and contains 6 additional strategies for overcoming common threats to

Women’s Wellness at Work Part 1: Common Threats to Wellness and 6 Strategies to Overcome Them

Women’s Wellness at Work Blog Series: This 2-part blog series highlights how women’s workplace wellbeing is under threat and considers how to

Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series Part 3: Career Progression at a time that’s right for you

Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series The challenges and solutions in this blog series are around how to be a career professional and

Is fair opportunity knocking?

Read my latest article for Counsel Magazine considering practical ways to overcome the glass ceiling, sticky floor or broken rung within the legal
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Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series Part 2: Career Break Return Success

Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series The challenges and solutions in this blog series are around how to be a career professional and