Blog about "the office" spotlights real client liabilities

"That's what she said," is a new blog which has been developed by Julie Elgar, an attorney at the US law firm Ford & Harrison in Atlanta and who specialises in respresenting management or company officers that have been sued by their employees or former employees.

So what's the blog about? She takes the (US version) of the sitcom "the office" and assess what the 'antics' might cost a real employer in terms of workplace lawsuits.

A great piece of marketing. It's served to raise her profile among executives who watch the show when they get home at night - and laugh nervously about how such a thing would surely never happen in their office... would it?

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Profession 'will be outsourced' in 30 years

Professor Alan Blinder, a well-respected US economics professor from Princeton University, says that UK accountants and lawyers could find themselves outsourced over the next generation.

He claims that the dynamics of globalisation will mean that many professional jobs will, in time, be done more cost effectively when outsourced and that this will leaving many UK-based professionals, including lawyers and accountants, redundant before their careers end.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Professor Blinder said: 'Lawyers involved in family disputes, and criminal lawyers - they've got to stay around. But lawyers that write contracts, and lots of accountants; maybe that kind of education is not such a fabulous idea. Educating people to go into what I call the personal services is a good idea - some of which don't require all that much education - so electricians, carpenters, plumbers, roofers - skilled trades.”

What are your thoughts?

[read the Telegraph article]

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Life's short...

The streets of Chicago are now graced by an advert from law firm saying, "Life's Short. Get a divorce." and showing a woman in her underwear and the six-pack abs of a shirtless guy.

It's caused an uproar - and it's been on the national news. But what are your thoughts?

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