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{{a|work|}}All right, my little chicklings. This is a heartfelt plea to you on behalf of those of us who’ve been in this game for years and are obliged, by regulation,<ref>All right this isn’t strictly true anymore, but it sort of is.</ref> to sit through [[continuing professional development]] seminars, to make them at least ''tolerable'' and, if you can, ''entertaining''. | {{a|work|}}WHY ARE ALL LAW-FIRMS SO BAD AT PRESENTING SEMINARS? | ||
All right, my little chicklings. This is a heartfelt plea to you on behalf of those of us who’ve been in this game for years and are obliged, by regulation,<ref>All right this isn’t strictly true anymore, but it sort of is.</ref> to sit through [[continuing professional development]] seminars, to make them at least ''tolerable'' and, if you can, ''entertaining''. | |||
As a matter of fact I’m sitting though one now, as I write this. It’s about — and I swear I had to check this by looking at the title on the outlook invite, because in forty minutes I’ve absorbed nothing — “Brexit and beyond”. | As a matter of fact I’m sitting though one now, as I write this. It’s about — and I swear I had to check this by looking at the title on the outlook invite, because in forty minutes I’ve absorbed nothing — “Brexit and beyond”. | ||
Now I am telling you this not primarily for ''your'' own good, but ''mine''. I crave enlightenment, | Now I am telling you this not primarily for ''your'' own good, but ''mine''. I crave enlightenment, failing that entertainment, and failing ''that'', mere distraction will do, but preferably I’d like all three: having bent my ears for an hour to your message, I yearn to depart with ''something'' for my trouble: some kind of enrichment to my “lived experience”, to borrow a vogue expression. | ||
I want to be in some way better equipped, better informed, armed with better anecdotes, even if it won’t realistically move the needle much on my professional acumen.<ref>Well, let’s face it, it won’t will it?</ref> IS THIS REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK? | |||
After all, what is good for ''me'' is good for ''you'': if the lords of our profession declare that every member ''must be spoken at'' on topics of professional advancement, for an aggregated period each year — and, okay, they don’t really, any more, but this hasn’t stopped the military industrial complex of law firm seminars — this the chance for those doing the speaking ''to a bit of marketing''. Sell yourselves, friends. ''PLEASE''. Transport me, for an hour, away from my [[tedious]] mortal shell. Telescope me into a wondrous new world where I am piqued, thrilled, bettered and, mostly, ''entertained''. | |||
Brexit and beyond: there is so much scope for levity here. Buzz Lightyear! Put Dominic Cummings in a Buzz Lightyear outfit! Something! Anything! | Brexit and beyond: there is so much scope for levity here. Buzz Lightyear! Put Dominic Cummings in a Buzz Lightyear outfit! Something! Anything! |