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What’s it all about? – Julian Summerhayes

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to …

The Games we play – Julian Summerhayes

“Life games reflect life aims. And the games men choose to play indicate not only their type, but also their level of inner development” ― Robert S. …

Supporting my work – Julian Summerhayes

This is my main site. In time, I’ll update the content to reflect what I’m now doing and able to offer — both during the Covid19 pandemic and thereaf…

Another new path – Julian Summerhayes

Life is everything. But when the money comes on stage, we limit life to control our fear of losing everything. Looking back on the last decade, I rea…

You are a brand…now get over it – Julian Summerhayes

No, not the most nuanced of headlines and neither should it be. There’s no escaping the fact that ever since Brand You was coined by Tom Peters in hi…

Writing to my blog – Julian Summerhayes

You may think I’ve abandoned my blog. I haven’t. Sure, I haven’t written here in a long time but that doesn’t mean I’ve given up on it. Right now, I’…

Would you take Wilkinson’s Road Traffic Offences on holiday? – Julian Summerhayes

If you are Mr Loophole (Nick Freeman) then you would. This was part of what Nick Freeman had to say at his keynote speech at the Netlaw Media confere…

Work isn’t important – Julian Summerhayes

We are gifted life. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. From the outset, we’re told we can be anything we want or certainly we’re given that impre…

Wired for success – Julian Summerhayes

Life is so rich with meaning but we’re so busy, we rarely see it. I’m not saying we don’t try to bring meaning to our lives and we do, but I’m tiltin…

Winning and Retaining Clients in Legal Practice – Julian Summerhayes

I would wager that there is a constant theme running through all law firms up and down the breadth of the land – we need more/better/bigger clients. …

Why you don’t ask Why – Julian Summerhayes

Why law? Why do you practice your area of law? Why this firm as opposed to that one? Why do you want to be partner? Why do you want to earn in excess…

Why Law Firm Marketing is E-A-S-Y – Julian Summerhayes

How difficult can it be to get and retain clients when you have a closed market? Lawyers are rightly concerned about the liberalisation of the legal …

What has business ever done for the environment? – Julian Summerhayes

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to e…

What are your objectives for Social Media? – Julian Summerhayes

It seems such an obvious question? More sales? More leads? More clients? More friends? More LinkedIn contacts? More traffic to your website? More fac…

We’re running out of time – Julian Summerhayes

It’s hard for me to capture the essence of what’s happening or at least what I feel is happening to this once pristine world. In what sense? In the s…

The last rites – Julian Summerhayes

There’s a risk that if we don’t act soon — i.e. NOW! — it will be too late to halt the terminal decline of this once pristine world. As I type those …

The Fear of Change – Julian Summerhayes

This post is short. You know what you have to do: something different. Life is truly what me make it, and given how much of it is spent inside one fi…

the Fakers and the Makers – Julian Summerhayes

“they just don’t know what totality is. they have never done a single act with their total being. whenever an act is total, it liberates; whenever it…

The divided life – Julian Summerhayes

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask m…

the content conundrum – Julian Summerhayes

how many of you struggle with the idea of remarkable content? what exactly is it that will travel the ether and connect meaningfully with your follow…

Right work – Julian Summerhayes

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art …

Ready, Fire and …. Aim – Julian Summerhayes

… as opposed to most law firm decision-making, which rests on the ability not to make a decision. The usual modus operandi: “Ready, ready, ready, rea…

One small step – Julian Summerhayes

No, not me trying to remember the immortal lines of one Neil Armstrong, but rather how I feel right now about the progress of my blog, social media p…

~ Old School Values ~ – Julian Summerhayes

They sound 19th century. Or out of touch with reality; or consigned to those people of a different generation. But we are far too quick to dismiss Ol…