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As we move into the | As we move into the millennium’s second decade, a new genre of career has emerged, through [[LinkedIn]]’s oily midwifery: the ''[[panel discusser]]''. These are people who spend most of their working lives attending, moderating or speaking on [[panel discussion]]s. Now, for a junior partner in an [[offshore law firm]] it might be a quick way of burnishing credentials within the community of corporate agency and trust services professionals. But for the middling [[executive director]] in an [[In-house lawyer|in-house]] legal function, let alone one in the Legal COO team, it is harder to understand who lets them out so often — for that matter pays them — much less, why. | ||
No topic is too arcane, no minutia of the regulatory landscape too wretched, no panel-member selfie too prostrating of one’s self-esteem to be beyond the siren call of the [[LinkedIn]] timeline, to which they will upload awkward selfies several times a week, tagging co-panellists as they gurn awkwardly on a low stage in front of thirty bored associate directors. “Great [[panel discussion]] today about the [[EMIR refit]]! So thought-provoking!” | No topic is too arcane, no minutia of the regulatory landscape too wretched, no panel-member selfie too prostrating of one’s self-esteem to be beyond the siren call of the [[LinkedIn]] timeline, to which they will upload awkward selfies several times a week, tagging co-panellists as they gurn awkwardly on a low stage in front of thirty bored associate directors. “Great [[panel discussion]] today about the [[EMIR refit]]! So thought-provoking!” |