Leaving our trustees meeting today with one of my fellow trustees we were discussing London’s new communal bike system under which you can “borrow” a bike from a “station” and return it. Apparently quite a popular new service and certainly environmentally friendly. It copies a similar scheme in Paris. A definite and novel improvement to our transport system in the capital.
At the trustees meeting we discussed a number of ways in which we can (similarly) add to and improve SCL including
- refreshing our brand image with a cleaner focus on “SCL” as an acronym as opposed to the Society for Computers & the Law – thus emulating a number of eminent law firms!
- creating a Young Lawyer’s Group to harness the energy and enthusiasm of those newer to IT practice
- building on our newly formed in-house lawyers panel with some new events open to all but focused on issues of particular interest to our in house members
- organising press releases more for newsworthy events.
I would appreciate feedback or any expressions of interests in these new initiatives as we get on our bikes to improve SCL.
On a less positive note I have decided after last week’s blog to give up economic forecasting. No sooner did I dare to refer to a positive forecast for the UK economy than a number of more negative forecasts were published. Maybe I made the right choice of career in becoming a lawyer!
Clive
