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Description | View table of contentsLook insideLook insideAuthor(s): Clare Jones , Sarah Goulbourne , Steve CouchPublication date: Aug 2021Format: SoftbackPages: 180Price: GBP65.00ISBN: 9781787424265Lawyers of the 2020s operate in a ferociously competitive world and face unprecedented complexity, change and conflicting demands. As well as regulatory, legislative, economic and political uncertainty, other challenges include pricing pressures, technological advances, and market innovation. In this climate, professional development is ever more critical and the ambitious legal professional must develop their own competitive strategy to survive and thrive.In this book, authors Clare Jones, Steve Couch and Hannah Beko from leading challenger law firm gunnercooke, apply real-life, evidence-based coaching techniques and step-by-step practices exclusively to the legal sector. It also features a foreword written by Sarah Goulbourne. Through exploring ten core areas of professional development for lawyers, discover how to unleash yourself from your barriers and future-proof your legal career today. Content covers everything from self-discovery, through to thought-leadership and pitching as well as the skills and behaviours that underpin success. Readers are invited to create their own dynamic personal development programme and are challenged to hold themselves accountable for delivering it.This title will help senior level lawyers looking to build a lasting reputation, successful practice and sustainable, balanced career. It will provide clarity about your value and a deeper understanding of how to develop client relationships, as well as uncovering challenges to your progress and identifying priority next steps to make everything you do more effective.

It’s not all about winning, but…James Hogan’s career as an English teacher is in tatters. All he has left is the boys’ football team he coaches, but rival manager Kieran Butcher threatens to take that away too. After years of doing things the right way, he is determined to come out on top, by any means necessary.But just how far will James go to succeed?Single mother and police officer Hayley Birnham is worried about her career, her son, and the string of unusual crimes connected to the local football community.Fair is foul and foul is fair as James and Hayley try to balance doing the right thing with getting the right result. Game on.

Having a song written about you is a romantic dream, right? Until it becomes a living nightmare.When Immy Boyd’s ex-boyfriend, now a huge pop star, Carl Denby, immortalises their breakup in his hit single Imogen Imagine, she becomes a target. Everyone knows Immy as the girl in the song and she is branded the villain in Carl’s story. But her attempt to reclaim the narrative and take back control creates a vicious backlash that could cost her everything.Everyone thinks they know her story. They’re wrong.