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Richard W Smith

@RWS_01

Interested in #bizdev #innovation #pricing #strategy matters in world of #psf. #Blogging @ https://nitter.cf/t.co/96qP81qkYh (tweeted views are my own)

 Sydney Australia
Joined December 2011
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Tom Peters (@tom_peters) profile pictureTom Peters
@tom_peters3 Sep 2020
Replying to @_sylwia_dziuba @nomadpa @ChrisWejr @simonsinek
If you want to “inspire” people, make it clear that you give a shit about them and are desperate for them to succeed.
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Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape ??? @thaipirate please explain theguardian.com/business/202…
Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape

Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape

Catherine’s Originals denies Mondelēz claims in London high court of ‘passing off’ and trademark infringement

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Six out of 10 British Bar students do not secure a pupillage legalfutures.co.uk/latest-ne… #LegalNews
Six out of 10 British Bar students do not secure a pupillage

Six out of 10 British Bar students do not secure a pupillage

Nearly six out of 10 Bar students from the UK do not secure a pupillage within five years of enrolling on their training courses, prompting the Bar Standards Board to launch a review.

legalfutures.co.uk
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'[UK] Government predicts 12% growth in legal jobs over nine years' lawgazette.co.uk/news/govern… #LegalNews
Government predicts 12% growth in legal jobs over nine years

Government predicts 12% growth in legal jobs over nine years

'Raising awareness of conveyancing careers' is among the actions in professional services jobs plan.

lawgazette.co.uk
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#LegalNews legalbusiness.co.uk/law-firm…
Freshfields Asia arbitration and Singapore head leaves for Gibson Dunn

Freshfields Asia arbitration and Singapore head leaves for Gibson Dunn

Nicholas Lingard to join Gibson Dunn as international arbitration practice co-chair

legalbusiness.co.uk
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In August 2025, revenues for the [UK legal] sector were £4.10 billion lawgazette.co.uk/news/legal-… #LegalNews
Legal revenues dipped in August - but are up 12% on the year

Legal revenues dipped in August - but are up 12% on the year

Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities sector continues to out-perform the economy as a whole.

lawgazette.co.uk
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Clifford Chance to end formal alliance with Singapore’s Cavenagh Law after 14 years globallegalpost.com/news/cli… #LegalNews #AsiaLaw
Clifford Chance to end formal alliance with Singapore’s Cavenagh Law after 14 years

Clifford Chance to end formal alliance with Singapore’s Cavenagh Law after 14 years

UK firm ends relationship with boutique that enabled it to provide local litigation advice in city-state

globallegalpost.com
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Chinese Company Launches Legal-Specific LLM artificiallawyer.com/2026/10… #LegalNews #LegalTech #AI @MEKowalski
Chinese Company Launches Legal-Specific LLM

Chinese Company Launches Legal-Specific LLM

Chinese company Z.ai, which created the GLM models, has launched a legal-specific LLM that has been ‘mid-trained’ and post-trained to handle a range of tasks from contract review to regulatory comp…

artificiallawyer.com
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Ropes & Gray allows more attorneys to count AI testing toward billable hours abajournal.com/news/article/… #LegalNews #LegalTech #AI #billablehour
Ropes & Gray allows more attorneys to count AI testing toward billable hours

Ropes & Gray allows more attorneys to count AI testing toward billable hours

Ropes & Gray is expanding opportunities for its lawyers to test artificial intelligence and count that time toward their annual billing requirements.

abajournal.com
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'Priori Launches AI Rate Review for Outside Counsel' via @LegalPracIntel legalpracticeintelligence.co… #LegalNews
Priori Launches AI Rate Review for Outside Counsel

Priori Launches AI Rate Review for Outside Counsel

Priori Rate Review helps in-house legal teams analyse, compare and negotiate outside counsel rate increases across their panel.

legalpracticeintelligence.com
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ping: @MEKowalski 'Slater and Gordon Launches Free AI Legal Platform Lawra' legalpracticeintelligence.co… #LegalNews
Slater and Gordon Launches Free AI Legal Platform Lawra

Slater and Gordon Launches Free AI Legal Platform Lawra

Slater and Gordon's free AI platform Lawra targets Australia's legal literacy gap: 42 per cent of people don't know where to turn.

legalpracticeintelligence.com
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ICYMI: (England and Wales) Position Statement on the Judicial use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) judiciary.uk/guidance-and-re… #AI #LegalManagement #ReadFirstLegal @MEKowalski

Position Statement on the Judicial use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Courts and Tribunals...

Judicial statement setting out how AI is used, how it is governed, what safeguards are in place, and how the approach is kept under review

judiciary.uk
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News Ethics and technology to go on competence checklist lawgazette.co.uk/news/ethics… #LegalNews
Ethics and technology to go on competence checklist

Ethics and technology to go on competence checklist

SRA's proposed changes are likely to have been influenced by the Post Office Horizon scandal.

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interesting graph from this weekend's FT
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from: 'Manchester City: too big to fail?' - well worth a look ft.com/content/bae7f43f-8954…
Manchester City: too big to fail?

Manchester City: too big to fail?

The sport is still shaped by the club’s acquisition in 2008

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$15 for a pint of fairly average ale!! time to dive up the booze @thaipirate @MEKowalski
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"give up" even!
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Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway

Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway

President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’

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Well that was a tad embarrassing #NZAus
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Mike H@mikoh123Oct 9
Ian Hislop- His (Jeffery Archer) entire career was spent bringing the Tory party in to disrupt and Kemi Badenoch said he was a great guy. She called Angela Rayner a disgrace. If she is a disgrace what is someone who has been inside for lying & getting other people to lie? #hignfy
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Investors put another £10m into S&G as turnover soars

Investors put another £10m into S&G as turnover soars

Slater & Gordon has raised another £10m of equity from its investors, it has announced, alongside a 51% jump in revenue last year.

legalfutures.co.uk
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