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[[File:Panel discussion.jpg|thumb|center|400px|What advice would you have for someone running a Phase 3 VM workstream?]] | [[File:Panel discussion.jpg|thumb|center|400px|What advice would you have for someone running a Phase 3 VM workstream?]] | ||
}}Along with [[computer-based training]] and [[continuing professional development]], the [[panel discussion]] — jammed between workshops at an all-day conference as cheap filler, like | }}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 international for business hostages of the Airport Hilton in Bucharest — 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 assembly of junior partners, [[industry association]] [[inhouse counsel|counsel]] and random [[Change manager|change management]] consultants mumble about the impact on market stability of trade and/or transa — | ||
Sorry where was I? | Sorry where was I? | ||
As we move into the millennium's second decade a whole new genre of career has hoved into view through the oily midwifery of [[LinkedIn]]: the ''[[panel discusser]]''. These are people who, by all appearances, spend their working lives attending, moderating or speaking on [[panel discussion]]s. No topic is too arcane, no facet of the regulatory landscape too dreary, no selfie with fellow-panel members too prostrating of one’s self-esteem to be beyond the siren call to these men and women. | |||
Now, | Now, for a junior partner in an [[offshore law firm]] this might be a quick way of burnishing credentials and profile-building amongst that electrifying 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 | But for the middling executive director in an [[In-house lawyer|in-house]] legal function — let alone one the Legal COO team — it's harder to understand who regularly lets them out, for that matter pays them, or why. | ||
===Do as I say, folks=== | ===Do as I say, folks=== | ||
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===The panel selfie=== | ===The panel selfie=== | ||
Don’t pass up the chance post a selfie to [[LinkedIn]] with your co-panellists turning awkwardly on a low stage in front of thirty bored associate directors, with “great [[panel discussion]] today about the [[EMIR refit]]!” | |||
What do they have in mind? Do they imagine their network to be flooded with envy, or jealousy, or remorse at the sparkling debate it now discovers it has missed? | What do they have in mind? Do they imagine their network to be flooded with envy, or jealousy, or remorse at the sparkling debate it now discovers it has missed? |