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Partner Retirements – How to gain £1m in 2025
Could 2025 be the year your firm resolves the challenge of partner retirements? Some firms are now actively addressing the issues and securing £m’s of revenue. Here’s how you could too. The cost of poor partner retirements? The average Top 200 equity partner manages a practice of £1-2.5m. An unwittingly poor exit puts all this ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Ageism in hiring: how AI is crushing talent over 50
Let’s get real about ageism in recruitment tech. Recently, we called out Indeed’s career stage model – and boy, did it need calling out. Labelling professionals aged 55-65 as being in their “Decline” phase? That’s not just offensive; it’s business suicide. The AI bias blindspot Artificial intelligence in hiring isn’t the magic solution everyone thinks ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Partner retirement: The hidden risks law firm boards must address
The retirement of senior partners from law firms might seem like a natural progression, but it presents significant governance challenges that boards must actively manage. While partner retirement is inevitable, the associated risks can be substantial if not properly overseen. Law firms, in particular, face unique challenges. Unlike corporate structures, partners are both owners and ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Young people are our teachers – making intergenerational work
Living in a multi-/ intergenerational world. Young people are my teachers. I didn’t think it would be this way. When I reached 72, I thought I had learned a thing or two. I went on YouTube as Granny Ronna because I believed I could be helpful to young people who needed virtual hugs, love, and ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Is 57 too old to recruit? Not with this headhunter!
I have been a headhunter for the last 30 years, identifying and attracting the best talent for critical roles in a diverse array of businesses, all of whom are aiming to support the delivery of a growth agenda that this country wants and needs. Increasingly, as reported in The Times today (Half of recruiters think ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Five generations at work - yes, now!
Five generations – Exciting? Nightmare? Impossible? Opportunity? I have realised all the discussions on this topic are about the challenges, the tensions. I have not heard one person express excitement. Until now. Patrick Dunne and Rebecca Robins have spent six years researching what should be the new norm of five (or six or seven) ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting
Why retirement is a weird concept Only 39% of people retire voluntarily; popular culture holds it out as a time of skipping on beaches with a beaming smile; and yet the reality can be so awful that many experience terrible mental health and a few even take their lives. In professional firms, partners hardly dare ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Join our International Speakers Bank
Due to rapid growth, we need to expand our bank of speakers for our workshops. These speakers talk on a range of subjects, including a panel of unretired people sharing what they are doing after full time work, how they worked out what they wanted and what has worked and not. We are particularly looking ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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Why I changed my mind about Age Discrimination
People aged over 50 say they can’t get jobs. Tens of thousands of them. I used to think these people weren’t helping themselves. But over the last year or two I have changed my mind. It is quite clear to me there is rampant ageism and age discrimination. But what made me change my mind? ... Retirement has to come out of the broom cupboard – and it’s starting...
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