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Eversheds cunning recruitment plan?

Almost certainly a spoof. Spotted via CharonQC and Liadnan.

Eversheds HR people, one assumes together with their advertising agency, seem to have come up with a cunning, and one can only assume coke fueled, campaign to aggressively not recruit anyone.

If you are one of the following types of lawyer you too can have an exciting career shuffling parts of existing words around to form exciting interesting new meaningless words. Are YOU a;

Logithiser?

Logithisers are capable of shutting down their emotional mechanisms to perform feats of objectivity and accurate thought. But equally, they have great powers of empathy.

Proactilopers?

A motivated self-starter with a naturally inquisitive mind, Proactilopers don’t wait to be asked before they begin pursuing an idea. They are energetic bright sparks who see problems on the horizon and deal with them before they reach the foreground.

The Prioricator.

They’ve honed their skills to an amazing degree; to listen to them is to understand and be convinced. They’ve mastered another essential legal skill: they know how to prioritise. The Prioricator has developed a remarkable ability to recognise what’s most urgent and important and get on with it. Their clients often find that just as they reach for the phone to call their lawyer, it rings and they’re on the line.

Winnomat

He combines apparently conflicting attributes. On one hand they are driven, competitive and determined; on the other they are sensitive to others, tactful and excellent negotiators.

Professionary

He is blessed with a combination of mental agility and intellectual rigour, and is an asset to any business and indispensable to ours. They have vision yet remain resolutely professional.

Inovateer

… has good reason to appear effervescent; their ideas are fresh, imaginative and occasionally rebellious. And crucially, they’re not afraid to get on board with other people, recognising as they do, that to be a credible innovator you need to be an enthusiastic volunteer as well.

And Geeklawyer’s personal favourite — the Knowlivator:

… studious attitude, you might even mistake them for being a little reticent. But really, they’re far from it. Knowlivators are driven to acquire knowledge from any possible source – digital, paper-based or human. They know stuff you thought nobody knew. … they manage to motivate others with their passion for learning and knowledge. They don’t just have big brains; they have big personalities too.

Geeklawyer is impressed inspired and thinks Eversheds are Crapeddlers;

The Crapeddler is known for his inspiratologically energomatic clientcentric business interface solutions. But he isn’t just a machine; he is empathotic and tenderatic, unafraid to cry in front of his team when the puzzled client moves to a new law firm.”

Got £20,000,000 to spare?

  • Geeklawyer was perusing legal businesses for sale yesterday on a website normally offering solicitors practices for £500k a pop or suchlike. Then he stumbled upon an absolute howler:

Whistleblowing Agency
Initial caseload derived from United States based Corporate Criminal Payroll Under-reporting

Location: London

Asking price �20M
Current Caseload Value: �2Bn
Asking price includes:

Forecast revenues of circa �24,000M FY 2009
Exclusive case load arrangements
Outstanding opportunity to grow
Unique acquisition opportunity
Net profits circa 70% FY 2009

This exceptional business opportunity has been established to provide a confidential agency and advisory service to company employees (clients) seeking information and advice concerning Payroll Under-reporting; to provide a “one stop shop” for all enquiries and persons with evidence of under-reporting and to negotiate the ensuing reward on their behalf with the relevant legal authorities for those who become whistleblowers.

The business derives its fees taken as a percentage from each individual reward amount.

There is a macro economic problem within the USA called ‘payroll under-reporting’ where …”

To Geeklawyer’s knowledge there is no equivalent problem in the UK based on our different tax structures nor is non-compliance rewarded in or protected in the same way.

Who in the name of God can seriously imagine any sucker ponying up 20 big ones for this?

Even Ruthie wouldn’t fall for this one for Gawd’s sake!

How much is your blog worth?

Wondering if you can retire to Bermuda without ever needing to draft a single pleading? Check out the value of your blog here. This blog is apparently worth $11,290.80. Which is incorrect since this blog is, of course, priceless.

Shy American lawyers? wha? …

A couple of linked posts over at What About Clients caught my eye. Apparently American lawyers have trouble asking for business.
This struck Geeklawyer as positively bizarre and for a moment he thought Dan was talking about his own experience of effete poofy English lawyers on one of his numerous jollies over here. But no it was yanks he was talking about: lean hungry denizens of the goal driven land of pecuniary want. No, lean would be
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Geeklawyer has never had any trouble asking either other lawyers or lay punters for business and he can’t really imagine others do either — is he right?

Windows Vista — not much of a view?

Geeklawyer is pretty much unimpressed by the Windows Vista publicity blitz hailing the new release of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system: yea, the visuals look pretty slick at least based on the publicity seen so far, but he’ll reserve judgement until he’s seen it running and decide if its significantly better than OSx. He doubts it.

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the Internet and paralegality

Geeklawyer stumbled across a rather dull story about eBay and its rules of conduct in relation to merchants. In summary if you do business on eBay you agree to lots of stuff. The stuff includes VeRO which is designed to assert the rights of an intellectual property owner against intruders. Thus if someone on eBay decides to punt stuff over which you have copyright trademark patent design rights, yada yada, you can shut them down at very short notice on little more than an email to eBay.
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Halloween law change

Geeklawyer is privy to news of an imminent legal change. Since Blair wishes to ingrain the habit of financial self-reliance into children the repellent trend of them American ‘trick or treating’ is to be encouraged. The only impediment to this is the fear that children may unwittingly knock on the door of a paedophile: a chilling threat incapable of exaggeration or hysteria.

Currently most people seeking a job that involves interaction with children need to undergo Criminal Record Bureau checks. The government has decided that the scheme will now be modified so that anyone answering a domestic door, or other door that a child might reasonably be expected to knock on during Halloween, will be compelled to undergo a CRB check. Thank heavens at least the Dear Leader is thinking of the children.

why does everyone else get the rich stupid punter?

Ruinair is a bit pissed off over the latest government “lets-scare-the-living-fuck-out-of-everyone-over-terrorism-so-we-can-get-more-powers” stunt. Neo-Labour decided it would be good to make everyone undergo body-cavity searches and stop anyone bringing anything on to the plane as hand luggage stuff larger than a packet of cigarettes. Pointless ineffective and designed just for headlines — and only when the chaos was worth more than the headlines did they start to think of ways to back down while saving face.

Micheal Ryan has decided, therefore, to sue the government.

What a twat. Probably.

If he is doing this for publicity, then OK its fine. But if the serious intent is to get an injunction or damages then frankly he needs a clip round the ear, and for a grown up to tell him he is fuckwit.
Any decent lawyer will tell him his chances of success in such a case against the government are nil.
Which is OK with Geeklawyer. But why is it that he gets all the impoverished punters who quibble over every last penny of the bill while some other lucky git gets a knob-end like Ryan who’ll splash, what? — £250k+, without batting an eyelid?

Its not fair he protests. he’s been a good boy all year, where is his share of stupid punters?

Partnership salaries — would you get out of bed for Â£50k?

The Law Society recently concluded that partnership is becoming an increasingly less attractive prospect for today’s associates. A recent survey of associates’ salaries showed UK firm, Trowers & Hamlins, pays its new partners a pathetic £50,000. Continue reading ‘Partnership salaries — would you get out of bed for Â£50k?’

Apple loses

Beatles Apple, that is (Apple Core, Corps).

Apple & Apple signed a deal whereby Apple Computers would stay out of the music business. Continue reading ‘Apple loses’