Career Transitions at the Bar: Stepping into Leadership Positions
Every successful barrister reaches a point where the work changes before they realise they have changed. Cases become more complex, expectations
Sandwich Generation: What’s filling yours?
This blog explores solutions to the “Bar juggle” for the Sandwich Generation The sandwich generation squeezed As a working parent, doubtless you’ll
The Lottery No Barrister Should Ever Have to Enter
2 out of 3 Bar returners left because of caring responsibilities, but there are tangible business risks to treating this only as a “you”
Raising the Bar: The Repeatable Retention Framework that works…
Women in law stay. Leaders emerge. If your law firm is, or Chambers are, losing career break returners, you’re not only losing “a lawyer”; you’re also
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
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
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
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
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