How your operating style attracts or deflects clients. What's your operating style?

Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives and feelings of another person. It’s an invaluable trait for barristers, especially when advising clients who are feeling angry, distressed or confused by the proceedings.

When a barrister is credible others tend to have confidence in their knowledge, judgment, and ability to do the job.

Investing time building rapport at the start of a client relationship will help you navigate the challenges later.

Trust creates the assurance that you will deliver on your commitments and act in your clients best interests.  Trust is therefore an essential element of any successful barrister-client relationship. 

The decision to move Chambers is never taken lightly. But it doesn’t need to be tortuous. Here's what to consider.

Five more minutes of mediation probably won't manifest an abundance of clients. A good business system might.

How much should you reveal about yourself on your Chambers website? Some clerks say ‘not much’. Here’s another view.

LinkedIn is the only social media platform you'll ever need.

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An engaging Chambers profile, written in the language of your client and populated with keywords to push your profile up the Google rankings is an easy win in the business development game.  

Not getting paid for all the work you do when writing a legal opinion? We can help you change that with our planning tool.

If you're not getting paid for all the work you do to write a good skeleton, it could be because you're missing out a key step in the process.

What do Wembley Stadium, this blog post and your most recent skeleton argument have in common? They all took much longer than planned to complete.

You;re not selling. You've solving problems.

Clients who are dissatisfied, outraged or plain angry will turn up throughout your career.  Learning how to manage them is a good investment of time.

Actually...you didn't. Learn how to lead new clients directly to your practice.

There's a point in the relationship when you should give away your advice for free.