Dear Rookie, If there were ever a time to get your grit on, it is now! The world is in a crisis of unprecedented impact. Very few sectors, if any, seem to have been spared from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it hasn’t already occurred to you, the legal sector will not […]
The Rona: Can’t get a good Rookie down Read More »
Dear Rookie Advocate, Have you ever been asked when you’re going to have a child and you think, but I’m still a child? This time last year, I felt this way. I was two years at the bar, one year in Local Government and promoted to Director Legal Services, leading the first ever legal department
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While we laugh and shrug off the memes, something else is happening. History is being written in that very moment. A legacy is being built. What reputation has been handed down to us? What reputation will we hand down to those that are coming after us?
Do you know your Heritage? Read More »
Dear Rookie Advocate, After all the ‘parte after parte’ of the holidays, please allow me to say happy ‘twente twente’. Happy new year! You made it to the end of January, woop! woop! Hopefully by now you have shaken off the holiday feel and dived into beast mode. Our creative juices are already flowing, Emmanuela
The World Economic Forum lists ‘Emotional Intelligence’ as one of the top 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Empathy is an integral part of emotional intelligence. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines empathy as: “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this…” So maybe you are sold on the idea of empathy but
Dear Rookie Advocate, You too have a story to share. I can count the number of times I’ve asked an advocate of less than 5 years at the Bar for an article for this blog, and their response was ‘I’m also a Rookie, what advice can I give?’ This blog was birthed from the strong
Rookies Mentoring Rookies: Share Your Story Read More »
I know that you are feeling cheated! ‘Who moved your cheese?’ Who flipped the script? Isn’t your newly acquired gown supposed to cloak you with instant success and your wig a worthy crown?! I know that it feels like a steeplechase with no finish line because you are still jumping hurdles. Good news is you
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Dear Rookie Advocate, Your name has been entered on the roll, the sherry has been drank, the pictures have been taken and possibly already framed. It’s Monday morning, the files are piled up and the to-do lists are full. Breathe, welcome to the rest of your life. Remember the phrase ‘a good lawyer is one
Long before the Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) was formulated, legal education was primarily by apprenticeship. I can imagine that in those days mentorship of young lawyers was a natural consequence of their legal training. In the legal education world of today if mentorship is not intentionally grafted into a lawyer’s training and sustained throughout
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