A career at the Bar has always been highly competitive. More than ever, commercial pressures are increasing. Today, you need to be more than a brilliant advocate for your clients. You need to present the case for your practice.
The demands on a barrister's time and energy are also greater than ever. So the most successful barristers now take advantage of simple but powerful business tools to run their practices efficiently, and free up billable time.
Heidi Smith, BA Hons (Durham),
MSc (LSE), GDL (City).
About Heidi Smith.
Heidi Smith is a business advisor to barristers and expert in practice strategy. She helps barristers grow their practices by guiding them through a strategic approach to raising their professional profile. She also advises on technologies that enables barristers to save time, energy and head space they would much rather devote to their cases.
Heidi has specialised in practice strategy for barristers for over 10 years. Alongside creating Jurilogical, she has worked with Accenture, Deloitte and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. A fluent Russian speaker, she founded and ran a successful Russian language litigation support business for several years, after having delivered legal reform projects in the former Soviet Union on behalf of the Foreign Office.
She is a graduate of Durham University and the London School of Economics, with a Graduate Diploma in Law from City Law School. She is a bestselling business author on the subject of psychometric testing.
