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TLT makes up two Bristol lawyers to partner among raft of firm-wide promotions
Two Bristol lawyers have been made up to partner in TLT’s annual firm-wide promotions, bringing the total number of partners at the Bristol-headquartered national law firm to 147.
Litigation lawyer Emma Cork and technology & IP lawyer Ed Hayes were among five lawyers promoted to partner at the firm, alongside financial services disputes lawyer Louise Chopra, housing and regeneration lawyer Sarah Hale, and technology & IP lawyer Juliet Mason.
May 13, 2021 at 12:42 AM
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As more and more firms announce their plans to bring associates back to their newly reopened offices on hybrid schedules, at the same time, more and more firms are hiring associates who will be completely remote. This hiring trend just goes to show that flexibility is key in the new normal.
Firms are seeking talent in markets outside of their office locations partly due to the recent skyrocketing demand for associates, particularly in areas such as corporate work and intellectual property. The pandemic pushed many young lawyers out of Big Law or the profession entirely, adding to the crunch.
By Garrett Reim2021-04-06T09:06:00+01:00
The sight of an aircraft crashing and burning is for most engineers the stuff of nightmares. But, for engineers developing a new class of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) called attritable aircraft, such destruction is not likely to elicit more than a shoulder shrug.
Attritable aircraft are designed to be thrown out – eventually.
Source: Boeing
Attritable aircraft require a change in mindset, says Boeing
The US Air Force (USAF) believes that by designing and building military UAVs cheap enough it can gain an edge over its adversaries in a war of attrition (hence the name “attritable”). Essentially it wants UAVs that it can afford to lose.
Will businesses reduce their office footprint in 2021? 11 January 2021: With homeworking the new norm, speculation is rife that the days of the vanity corporate HQ could be numbered. Even the longer-term prospect of hybrid models of working is prompting questions about office space and opportunities to downsize.
Back in September 2020, more than half of UK directors said they planned to cut back-office space as staff move more permanently to working from home, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Directors. It found that lockdown had resulted in many people embracing homeworking as the default option: more than four in 10 said one of the main reasons was that working from home was proving more effective than their previous set-up.