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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 offers primo snooze opportunities at the back). In brighter forums, it is a chance to catch up on Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] or follow the [[cricket]]. | 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 offers primo snooze opportunities at the back). In brighter forums, it is a chance to catch up on Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] or follow the [[cricket]]. | ||
But whether a [[CPD]] hour is well-spent—who can say? Is it vocational? Is it relevant? Is the content even accurate? Can one know whether, having signed in, young sir spent any part of the next hour in the room, let alone conscious or paying attention? (The Americans had a crack at this by interposing a random number, to be read out at an unexpected moment, which candidates had to quote in their attestation to prove their attention. But even then only one brave attorney, for the greater good of the whole, needs so sit through the ordeal, and even {{sex|she}} wouldn’t learn anything, her attention being devoted to listening out for the number. | But whether a [[CPD]] hour is well-spent—who can say? Is it vocational? Is it relevant? Is the content even accurate? Can one know whether, having signed in, young sir or ma’am spent any part of the next hour in the room, let alone conscious or paying attention? (The Americans had a crack at this by interposing a random number, to be read out at an unexpected moment, which candidates had to quote in their attestation to prove their attention. But even then only one brave attorney, for the greater good of the whole, needs so sit through the ordeal, and even {{sex|she}} wouldn’t learn anything, her attention being devoted to listening out for the number.) | ||
Now, let’s pretend for a moment you do show up, you do pay attention, and the talk is topical talk for your own area of practice. | Now, let’s pretend for a moment you do show up, you do pay attention, and the talk is topical talk for your own area of practice. | ||
Will it be the thing that staves off a claim sounding in professional negligence? No-one who has spent an hour before a wizened solicitor mumbling his way through a dense [[PowerPoint]] [[deck]] about the minutiae of [[transaction reporting]] under [[MiFID 2]] would bet on it. | Will it be the thing that staves off a claim sounding in [[Negligence|professional negligence]]? No-one who has spent an hour before a wizened solicitor mumbling his way through a dense [[PowerPoint]] [[deck]] about the minutiae of [[transaction reporting]] under [[MiFID 2]] would bet on it. | ||
But hurry along — the bran muffins are going fast. | But hurry along — the bran muffins are going fast. | ||
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