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		<title>Bar overplays independence card</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a copy of my recent article for Legal Cheek, a legal news and comment website full of lively, provocative and informative material.  And this too &#8230; On Monday the listed Australian law firm Slater &#38; Gordon kicked off the &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/bar-overplays-independence-card/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=464&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What they don&#8217;t teach you at Bar School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be clear here.  I genuinely do not know what they do teach at Bar school.  Some law stuff and a bit of advocacy I guess.  I&#8217;ve never really known much more than this and I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/what-they-dont-teach-you-at-bar-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=385&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bar &#8211; Time for a Culture Shock ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a copy of my recent article for the Pupillage Blog, which I can highly recommend as an insightful, engaging and comprehensive online resource for aspiring barristers. I have for some time been considering writing about my thoughts on practice at the Bar, from &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/the-bar-time-for-a-culture-shock/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=275&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Legal Services Act &#8211; what now for Chambers ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My article in the Sept 2011 edition of Clerksroom Magazine, a free monthly publication for clerks and managers in barristers&#8217; chambers: You’d have had to be on some pretty faraway planet not to have heard of the Legal Services Act &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/the-legal-services-act-what-now-for-chambers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=285&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for Barristers&#8217; Chambers &#8211; Friend or Foe ?</title>
		<link>http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/social-media-for-barristers-chambers-friend-or-foe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my recent article in Clerksroom Magazine, a monthly publication for barristers&#8217; clerks distributed to all chambers in England and Wales.  The magazine can be downloaded (free) in its entirety here When someone mentions social media, the normal reaction is for &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/social-media-for-barristers-chambers-friend-or-foe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=257&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Barristers&#8217; Clerk &#8211; the Reality behind Billy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently had the great pleasure of recording a podcast with the venerable Charon QC. He opened by asking me to outline, in layman&#8217;s terms, the role of the barristers&#8217; clerk.  It was unarguably a fair question and one of &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-barristers-clerk-the-reality-behind-billy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=158&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Business Structures and the Bar: Big Bang or Damp Squib ?</title>
		<link>http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/abs-and-the-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 20:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The build-up to the implementation of the Legal Services Act is gathering pace.  It is a topic that has been discussed, debated and opined upon for years.  Now, less than 6 months away, we are starting to see law firms declaring their intentions to adopt alternative &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/abs-and-the-bar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=68&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sumption Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written in the legal press recently about the impending elevation of Jonathan Sumption QC to the Supreme Court bench.  It is said that this appointment has been deferred so that Sumption can appear in the Berezovsky v. Abramovich trial in October. Inevitably, in &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/sumption-assumptions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=20&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trust and Barristers&#8217; Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder why there often seems to be mistrust between solicitors and barristers’ clerks when negotiating fees.   It is perhaps driven by a perception that barristers’ clerks are invariably seeking the highest possible fee in the relentless pursuit of maximising their “percentage”. &#8230; <a href="http://jezhop.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/trustandbarristersfee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jezhop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21761700&amp;post=1&amp;subd=jezhop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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