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		<title>Getting a Training Contract by Blogging: Mission Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September of this year, I was asked by a journalist to answer some questions on the use of social media in my fledgling legal career. He had been very excited when I told him of my training contract offer back in February, because &#8220;the storyteller in him liked the idea of a training contract [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=779&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-target: Do lawyers have a choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I spent 5 days (Monday-Friday) playing cricket away from London on a tour. In the bar after our final game of the week, I asked one of my teammates if he was going in to work the following day. He works for a US firm in London and he was fiddling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=749&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Applying firm pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, whilst mired in revision, I read a post by the legal blogging Grandmaster, Charon QC. This post was another episode of his Muttley Dastardly LLP series, which depicts a law firm with a sinister ethos. The firm is interviewing for a new trainee. The post begins with this scene-setting paragraph: Eva Braun, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=710&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flom-ergasted: Reflections On Sad News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a blogpost this week that was so moving that I had to write about it myself. The post comes from the Above The Law website, and tells of the untimely death of an associate at a US law firm from a heart attack. The associate in question was just 32 years old. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=721&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic Circle Myth? How some applicants miscategorise firms they&#8217;re applying to</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As almost anyone applying for a training contract or pupillage will tell you, luck plays a massive part in the road to success. Some may call it fortune, others may attribute it to a higher power, but there are certain parts of the process that we mere mortals cannot control. For wannabe-solicitors, choosing which firms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=670&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Room for improvement: why you can&#8217;t always be Mr (or Ms) Perfect</title>
		<link>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/room-for-improvement-why-you-cant-always-be-mr-or-ms-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We think you&#8217;re a bit of a perfectionist,&#8221; says the partner. The interviewee smiles at what he takes to be a compliment. The partner continues: &#8220;but we&#8217;re not sure you&#8217;ll ever be able to let things go at 95% or 90% of your capability. Do you understand that in law you sometimes have to accept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=654&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duly noted &#8211; The journey to finding the right study method</title>
		<link>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/duly-noted-the-journey-to-finding-the-right-study-method/</link>
		<comments>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/duly-noted-the-journey-to-finding-the-right-study-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s only taken 6 months, but I&#8217;ve managed to work out how best for me to work towards my GDL. Trouble is, there are only a handful of workshops and lectures left to put it into practice. Despite this, I thought I&#8217;d write about my new method and why it&#8217;s been good for me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=639&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it dangerous to put your head above the parapet? Anonymity in legal blogging</title>
		<link>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/is-it-dangerous-to-put-your-head-above-the-parapet-anonymity-in-legal-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I read an interesting blog by Miss TS Tweets, a Trainee Solicitor somewhere in southwest England (so she says). The post was about articles that she writes for journals or magazines, which are credited to her supervisor rather than to her. Despite wanting some credit for her writing, she says that she values her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=615&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good commercial lawyer? A prospective Trainee&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/what-makes-a-good-commercial-lawyer-a-prospective-trainees-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I return to blogging today after an absence of nearly two weeks. I was struggling for inspiration, as well as having one or two other things on my mind, and could not think of what to blog about. Luckily, inspiration arrived in the form of Barry Gross&#8217;s blog about what being a transactional lawyer means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=584&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contempt of Caught? How the ICC upheld the Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://ashleyconnick.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/contempt-of-caught-how-the-icc-upheld-the-rule-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Connick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of my main passions collided last week in the latest instalment of the cricket &#8220;spot-fixing&#8221; scandal (the background to which is summarised brilliantly by cricket website ESPN Cricinfo), and it was pleasing to see the cricketing establishment being so respectful of the English legal system. The International Cricket Council (as opposed to the International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashleyconnick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18090952&amp;post=569&amp;subd=ashleyconnick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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