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Usefully Employed is back

Usefully Employed — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:32:40 +0000

This website (and, for many of you, the email newsletter) had a rather long break in the last part of 2009. Well, Usefully Employed is now back and fighting fit.

As well as resuming news and commentary on the latest employment law developments, anything missed during the down time will be gradually added in. These will be ‘backdated’ to the relevant date, to aid those who use the site as a reference tool, but the article will also contain the date it was actually posted to the site.

As ever, feel free to make any comments about the site, or suggestions for content.

Pink Tape hosts Blawg Review #226

Usefully Employed — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:21:54 +0000

For those of you who haven’t cast their net too wide into the online world of law resources, be aware of the regular Blawg Reviews, in which guest editors present a round-up of all that’s new on law blogs around the globe. In these days when Lexis and Westlaw push their bills ever higher, everyone should be aware of the wealth of legal expertise, resources, and sheer lunchtime diversion available.

The latest Review is hosted by Family Law blog Pink Tape and you should go over there and have a read. Blawg Review’s main website and an archive can be found here.

Usefully Employed translated

Usefully Employed — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:12:43 +0000

For accessibility, certain parts of this website can now be read in lolcat.

Daniel Barnett reaches milestone

Usefully Employed — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:30:52 +0000

Part of the lack of updates to this blog recently means I’m late reporting on a true employment law internet luminary reaching a real milestone. Daniel Barnett, barrister at 1 Temple Gardens, has been sending email employment law bulletins to just about everyone in the industry, from barristers to CIPD students, for ten years. And 1999 was a looong time ago in the IT world. Most of you, dear readers, may well not have even had an email address for him to write to.

To celebrate his anniversary Daniel launched a charity appeal to try to raise £10,000 for the Starlight Foundation. He’s achieved it in a very short space of time, but you can still donate at http://www.justgiving.com/danielbarnett2009.

Imminent redesign of Usefully Employed

Usefully Employed — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:50 +0000

Following a period of shameful inactivity there will, by the end of this week, be a redesign of Usefully Employed – not necessarily aesthetic, but centred around content. Note that service may therefore be intermittent during this time.

What would you like to see on an employment law website like this one? Clearly there’s a limit to what I can produce, but I would like to have nutshell guides on the main areas of employment law, together with the current blog covering employment law news. Anything else?

Let me know by commenting here or by emailing me at webmaster [at] usefully employed [dot] co [dot] uk

Brief break in transmission

Usefully Employed — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:22:42 +0000

I shall be camping and surfing in North Devon until early next week, so no posts are likely. Hope you all enjoy your bank holidays.

stealthemployed – lazy profiteering

Usefully Employed — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:26:34 +0000

**EDIT: AS AT 6TH AUGUST MY CONTENT WAS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE SITE**

If you’re reading this post at stealthemployed.com, which is a blog that simply reposts all of my stuff under a few big lucrative banner ads, then please visit the genuine site at http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk. That way you know that the guy that does the work, gets the visitors.

This is the chap’s information. Feel free to email or write to him to say what you think of him.

That email address again, just in case any spambots are watching, is jrobertson@farmersagent.com. I have now, and once again this is an idea I should myself have stolen from Nearly Legal long ago, put the licensing information for this blog’s content in the side bar.

I mean really, it’s not as if my stuff’s that good. Now where’s volume 12(2) of Atkin’s?

New hosting, new look

Usefully Employed — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:54:02 +0000

In my quest for continual self-improvement I’ve now moved this site onto its own server. What does this mean? Well, hopefully it’ll let me make this site what I want it to be – and you’ll see some exciting new changes in the coming weeks.

If you subscribe to this blog please make sure your reader points to http://feeds.feedburner.com/UsefullyEmployed - otherwise you may find this is the last entry you ever read.

Usefully Employed — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:46:52 +0000

Twitter is the social networking phenomenon de jour. I’m on there, see: http://twitter.com/u_employed Now I’ve joined and mentioned it to people, I see with a groan that it puts up stats as to how many ‘followers’ I have. Cue months … Continue reading →

Usefully (Self)-Employed

Usefully Employed — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:41:49 +0000

I have now started pupillage. It’s early days, but it seems as though it was the right decision.

In deference to the quality blogs and other sites out there that talk about pupillage, and (I admit) because it makes me a little nervous, I shan’t be blogging about what it’s like. In tribute to the good old days of BabyBarista however, the barristers I’ve met so far I’d describe as WheelerDealer, AlFresco, RichCynic and SwearBox. Now that’s my last word on the subject.