Lawyer's Coach - what makes lawyers tick? – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In the legal arena, clients and lawyers alike are thinking about how to address DEI, particularly getting women to be equally represented at the top. In private practice, women represent only 32% of equity partners in England & Wales, despite the profession being 53% female. Women make up 40% of barristers, yet whilst 60% of pupils are female, they make up only 20% of KCs. 

Now that our Lady Chief Justice is female, is it merely a waiting game? Do we need to do more to ensure that there is parity at all levels of the profession?

In this special episode you will hear from a fabulous line-up as we bring together all parts of the ecosystem to try and answer those questions.

• Client-side we have Nina Best, GC of Delinian;
• Representing private practice we have Nikki Edwards, partner at Howard Kennedy and Vice President of the London Solicitor's Litigation Association, together with Avneet Baryan, Senior Associate at Mills & Reeve; 
• For the Bar, we have Anneliese Day KC of Fountain Court Chambers; and finally,
• For the Judiciary, we have Mrs Justice Cockerill.

This fabulous panel of women talk about the challenges they faced in their careers and share insights on how each part of the system can work together to accelerate progress at the top.

Facilitating the discussion is Claire Rason, Director of Client Talk,  author of the diversity report, "The Class of 2002." and one of the hosts of the Lawyer's Coach podcast.

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In this episode Oliver and Claire reflect on the series and discuss the findings of their legal pulse survey. They discuss the role that coaching has to play in solving some of the big challenges that the industry faces.

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The billable hour has been the theme of the latest series with presenters  Claire Rason and Oliver Hansard  talking to a variety of guests about what is the marmite of legal.

 In this episode Claire and Oliver are going to reflect on what they have learned so far and also share some thoughts of their own.

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Adam Morallee is the Founding Partner of litigation boutique Brandsmiths, specialising in IP and sports matters.  Adam spoke to Claire about his take on the billiable hour. Adam also shared some insights on setting up a firm of his own and how Brandsmiths has grown.

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Daniel Martin is London Head of Business Crime and Regulation at JMW Solicitors.  He spoke to Oliver Hansard about his journey to becoming a lawyer and also his take on the billable hour.

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Richard Burcher dedicates all of his time to legal services pricing consultancy work and is widely regarded as the leading international authority on pricing legal services. We caught up with him to find out his take on the billiable hour.

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On Monday April 17th the Lawyer's Coach podcast returns with a series all about the billable hour, the marmite of legal. It is criticised for driving inefficiencies and is even cited as a cause of cultural ills.

In the meantime, we will be giving you a chance to delve into our back catalogue. This episode features a replay of a conversation Oliver Hansard had with Pamela Cone.

Pamela  works with firm leaders to address the growing expectations of all stakeholders - clients, prospects, employees, recruits and communities - around their firms' Social Impact and Sustainability programs. 

It was the 5th episode of season 4, in a series called Beyond Law

The Lawyer's Coach is brought to you by Client Talk

On Monday April 17th the Lawyer's Coach podcast returns with a series all about the billable hour, the marmite of legal. It is criticised for driving inefficiencies and is even cited as a cause of cultural ills.

In the meantime, we will be giving you a chance to delve into our back catalogue. This episode features a replay of a conversation Claire Rason had with Sadie Baron, CMO of global law firm Reed Smith LLP.

Sadie spoke about the need not only to do different things, but crucially, to also do things differently. It was the first episode of season 3, in a series called Law 2:0

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In this last episode of this series, Claire and Oliver reflect on the insights gained.  They speak about the impact that culture has on diversity, through the lens of a diversity study with a difference. They also explore the impact of the Billable Hour on culture. Is this the elephant in the room that needs to change before anything else can work?

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In this episode we speak to Elizabeth Rimmer, Chief Executive of LawCare. Elizabeth speaks to us about the impact that legal culture has on mental health in the provision. We explore what changes need to be made and think about the importance of teaching lawyers about the role of emotions. 

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