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}}Along with [[computer-based training]] and [[continuing professional development]], the [[panel discussion]] — jammed between workshops at an all-day conference as cheap filler, like those dreary ''Inside Africa'' fillers that run on a loop on CNN for business hostages at the Singapore Hilton — is one of the great blights of a corporate life quite overwhelmed with them. This is not to say the keynote sessions either side are a whole lot better, but hearing an assemblage of junior partners, [[industry association]] [[inhouse counsel|counsel]] and random [[Change manager|change management]] consultants mumble about the impact on market stability of [[MiFID]] [[Trade reporting|trade]] and/or [[Transaction reporting|transa]] —

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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 — or, 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!”