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Covid Diaries

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.
We hope you enjoy it!

Today marks a year since lockdown was first announced so we look back on this period and what has changed.Read More »

The Covid Diaries : Day 365 - An Unexpected Journey

As 2020 hurtles towards becoming an awkward footnote in the annals of human history, we thought we would look back on our time away from the office (still working, #obv, but not in a way any of us would’ve expected in 2019).Read More »

The Covid Diaries: Day 276 - Starter for Ten

The next person who says the phrase ‘the Next Normal’ will have to talk to the hand. But it will be a sanitized hand, at least.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 198 – Quarantine, the Inside Joke

It's time to say goodbye, at least to our daily blog about employment law firm life during lockdown.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 50 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Although we don't know when lock down will end, many are assuming restrictions will be lifted soon and we are almost at the end. They are the markers of the third quarter stage.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 49 - Third Quarter Stage

Do over 80% of workers want to be tracked?Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 48 - The Psychology of Returning to Work

Does reading this article count as work?Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 47 - Should You Be Reading This Blog?

Ursula Bosworth is our Marketing Director and we have invited her to join in creating our daily diary entries, for a different view of our Covid-19 practice.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 46 - We can dance if we want to...

As I ventured down Cheapside* [*one of the main streets in the financial/legal heart of London], a hoard of City traders in tattered clothes gathered around a closed pub scratching at the window.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 45 - I Ventured Into the City

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 44 - 1984

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 43 - Office Space

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 42 - National Working from Home Day

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 41 - I Like to Ride my Bicycle

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 40 - 40 Days and 40 Nights

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 39 - May I Have Some More?

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 38 - Hey Ho, Hey Ho ...

We are blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing. We hope you enjoy it!Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 37 - Wake up sleepy Jean

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 36 - Through the Looking Glass

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 35 - Ground Control to Major Tom

As an employer lawyer with my foot in two jurisdictions (Ireland and the UK), it is often interesting to see how they interact.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 34 - The Irish Understanding

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 33 - Time flies

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 32 - Red Red Wine

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 31 - Open for Business (Sort Of)

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 30 - Testing Times

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 29 - Blue Monday

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 28 - RuPaul GIFs and GDPR

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 27 - Let the Sunshine In

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 26 - It's Oh So Quiet

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 25 - The Company Card

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 24 -Permanent and Pervasive?

We have started blogging about life running a law firm during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily updates. It’s a fly-on-the-wall thing.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 23 - Big Brother

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 22 - Well, they say a picture paints a thousand words

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 21 - The way we were

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 20 - Follow the leader

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 19 - Wine Time

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 18 - Spring is in the air

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 17 - I've Had the (Working) Time of My Life

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 16 - Sunny Days and Good News

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 15 - Fur-low, Sweet Chariot

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 14 - We Built This City

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 13 - April Fools Day

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 12 - My annual leave experience

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 11 - A hard day's night

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 10 - Another week, done and dusted!

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 9 - Glory be to the internet

A daily fly-on-the-wall blog about running a legal business during the Covid-19 crisis.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 8 - The devil is in the detail

This new "furlough" thing is actually quite complicated.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 7 - I fought the law and the law won

Today has been manic.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 6 - Just another manic Monday

Choose your office colleagues carefully. Too late, you have chosen to live with these person/people and you must now work together in self isolation for months to come.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 5 - Working with your flatmates - A guide

Today was my turn to brave the pandemic and head into the office.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 4 - Alone again, naturally

We had our latest all-hands team meeting this morning by video call.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 3 - Video killed the radio star

They say the second stage of grief is anger, once the denial subsides. We are now in this strange limbo where the denial is indeed eroding but what it leaves behind is not so much anger - but bafflement. Lawyers don't like to be baffled, this is very new territory for us.Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 2 - What do we do now?

A month ago we were all so happy to finally stop talking about Brexit (mostly). We had lived and breathed it for three years and frankly, we were done. On to better times....Read More »

The Covid diaries: Day 1 - And so it begins

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