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 A counter-intuitive thought, to be sure, but there you have it.
-So was born “[[continuing professional development]]”: a stipulation whereby [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] of any rank must periodically re-educate themselves. It has caught on: professional bodies in all walks of life now entreaty teachers, soldiers, healthcare professionals, accountants, architects and engineers to similar exercises.
+So was born “[[continuing professional development]]”: a stipulation whereby [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] of any rank must periodically re-educate themselves. It has caught on: professional bodies in all walks of life now entreaty teachers, soldiers, healthcare professionals, accountants, architects and engineers all do similar exercises.
-To be sure, keeping up with your [[CPD]]s is not that hard— a dozen or so hours, spread over a year, is all you need — though across the profession that is no small crimp on aggregate productivity.
+To be sure, keeping up with your [[CPD]]s is not that hard — a dozen or so hours, spread over a year, is all you need — though across the profession that is no small crimp on aggregate productivity.
-Still, law firms beheld a great marketing opportunity: a jaunty breakfast seminar for their clients, followed by a chance to [[network]] over a dried-out bagel. [[Simmons & Simmons]] took it a step further, organizing a whole day of crushing tedium wherein their clients could see off half their yearly quota in one biscuit-saturated setting.
+Still, law firms beheld a great marketing opportunity: a jaunty breakfast seminar for their clients, followed by a chance to [[network]] over a dried-out bagel. [[Simmons & Simmons]] took it a step further, organizing a whole day of crushing [[tedium]] wherein their clients could see off half their yearly quota in one biscuit-saturated setting.
 Look: free bacon sandwiches are great. That is all most jobbing solicitors need to show up. If the room is large and dark enough there is scope for a few winks. ([[Freshfields]]’ fabulously murky auditorium off Fleet Street offers primo snooze opportunities at the back). In brighter forums, it is a chance to catch up on Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] or follow the [[cricket]].
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 ===Dreary webinars [[Coronavirus|in a time of cholera]]===
-Of course it’s bad enough having to kip through your bagel coma in the dusky recesses of [[Freshfields]]’ teatro; what proportion of a [[law firm]]’s [[webinar]] content is meaningfully conveyed when its audience — if an audience has dialled in at all — is self-medicating in hastily converted box rooms, only half-listening  to the dreary monotone through one earpiecewhile multi-tasking?
+Of course it’s bad enough having to kip through your bagel coma in the dusky recesses of [[Freshfields]]’ ''teatro''; what proportion of a [[law firm]]’s [[webinar]] content is meaningfully conveyed when its audience — if an audience has dialled in at all (commercial lawyers as a class are among the worst public speakers known to humankind, so realists among their number must add this anxiety to all their other existential doubts) — is self-medicating in hastily converted box rooms, only half-listening  to the dreary monotone through one earpiece while homeschooling the kids?
 A small one, we humbly submit.