By Nigel Wallis, Director, O’Connors Legal Services Limited
‘Building Back Better’ has become the world’s slogan - from budget decisions to carbon emissions. The concept is, of course, far from new. It has been used in disaster recovery parlance for decades and derives from evidence that the collective shock of a major catastrophe somehow seeds a desire in those affected not just to return to normal but to pursue a better normal.
Anecdotally at least, the UK Bar has weathered the shock of the pandemic and its disruption to the justice system well. But our conversations with barristers and their professional support teams across the country, suggest that there are growing tensions within some chambers (or bar firms) as adjustments are made for increased borrowings, technology challenges, fe...