Sometimes you get an event that just crackles. It pops.
And even in our virtual world, it almost cascades out of your screen and out of the myriad of clustered Zoom screens in front of you.
That’s what happened when, stretching time zones to their limit, 80 of our Next Generation lawyers came together from across the world last week - espresso-charged on the West Coast of the Americas, to staying up late in Japan and across Asia Pacific.
Despite our numbers and the time-differences, we got to know each other – climbers, kayakers, cooks, cookie-lovers, costume-makers, collectors, kite-surfers, crime-victims, craftsmen and women… amongst many others.
These are the human connections that unite us, that will create the legal and the business links to one another in time.
We were helped by the incomparable Rich Bracken – international speaker, TV-personality, ex DJ and living embodiment of “There’s always a way” – who focused on the importance of emotional intelligence and carving out time to make you a better lawyer, businessperson and human being generally.
As one delegate put it, Rich spoke “Not in a ‘fluffy’ or ‘hokey-dokey’ way, but in one that resonated and really made you think.”
One of our recent keynote speakers gave the following advice when you’re starting out, “Build your network.”
Well, our experienced lawyers and Mackrell International Main Contacts know the value of that.
And for our Next Generation, this is where it starts…