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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 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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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.) | 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 entire 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. | ||
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But hurry along — the bran muffins are going fast. | But hurry along — the bran muffins are going fast. | ||
===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? | |||
A small one, we humbly submit. | |||
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*[[Computer-based training]] | *[[Computer-based training]] | ||
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