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Ghost at the Feast gets Busted

In the past week Tony Blair has grabbed a snatch of headlines for returning to the political fray with his plan to control immigration and still keep the UK in Europe. But if he was expecting a chorus of trumpets and a rallying cry of “huzzah!” from the anti-Brexiteers, he didn’t get it. The expression […]

Collaboration with UNICEF

We are absolutely delighted to announce our collaboration with UNICEF as the major part of our pro bono commitment. UNICEF asked us to look at areas where we could add significant value to the UK’s Corporate Partnership Team and we came up with the following training opportunities –   Building Gravitas to Influence and Engage Partners […]

Luan de Burgh speaking at The Alternative Legal Management Summit

Luan de Burgh will be presenting at The Alternative Legal Management Summit 2017 on  Monday 18 September. As part of Luan’s presentation entitled ‘Leadership Think Tank’ he will be discussing effective leadership behaviour for the modern, ambitious managing partner. Please see here for further information.

Accredited provider of The Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department

We are delighted to announce we have just become an accredited provider of The Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department for our courses – Presenting Excellence, Business Development and Networking and Impact and Presence. The accreditation indicates the de Burgh Group has become officially certified to provide seminars, workshops, training programs for advocates and legal […]

Hurricane Mogg Looming on the PM’s Horizon?

I think we all breathed a bit of a sigh of relief at the arrival of the summer recess. After the relentless churn of the UK political seas in the eye of the General Election storm, the domestic doldrums of August were reassuringly calm… Well, Summer’s over and, as MPs return to Parliament this week, […]

Summer Holidays are over…Time for a Holiday?

August Bank Holiday officially brought the UK summer holiday season of 2017 to a close and phew what a scorcher it was! Did you get away on vacation or just hang around on a staycation? Whatever you did, chances are that this week has a touch of the ‘back to school’ feeling about it. Hopefully […]

Bad News is Good News on Planet Trump

Love Island may have finished, as has the drama of the British Parliament, but just when we were all looking forward to the uneventful dog days of summer, it’s all kicking off on the other side of the Atlantic… It’s almost as if Donald Trump and his strategists (although in reality, this could just mean […]

Getting Away From It All?

It is that time of year when the summer holiday mass migration begins as we seek an escape from the daily grind. Admittedly the initial euphoria of brushing down the trusty fedora and slipping into those ‘summer shoes’ is often dashed on the rocky reality of queues, crowds and a wallet that appears to be […]

Plumber needed at No 10?

Are you an office gossip? Do you like to swap titillating tales about your colleagues around the water cooler, at lunch or down the pub? If so you are not alone. In fact, a study by academics in Holland suggests that a whopping 90% of office conversation comprises of gossip in some form. That said, […]

Is age just a political number?

You know you’re getting older when those expressions you heard from your grandparents start to ring true and “A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners,” is just such a phrase. It wasn’t so long ago that the new brooms were sweeping over the political stage, but the old brooms are […]