Week 4 Guest Writer Donna

We are extremely pleased at the resounding success of the Education Law Update last week in the Corrs Corner hotel. It was a great day of informing, networking and hosting with praise being given to Jayne and Vanessa for their excellent hosting. Following on from this success, 3 more Education events are planned in 2010 spanning NI and ROI.

Meetings Networking and Events

This week sees the first of our new Twitter seminars at the Holiday Inn taken by none other than Barry " twitterer extraodinaire" Phillips, Dawn Baird and Jim Montgomery. Following the seminar Barry will be meeting with Brian Grimshaw of Sinai Training and Willa Mawhinney from Allianz.

Scott and Pamela will be meeting with the Belfast Telegraph to discuss the 2010 HR Conference. Scott will also be meeting with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Wednesday is the Effective Records Management conference in the Holiday Inn. Heather will be hosting and Scott will be attending to meet with one of our new speakers Bev Lowry, former Communications Director for British Airways.

People
Pamela will be meeting with her mentee through the Prince's Trust on Tuesday evening - a face painter from Ballyclare. We wish her all the best for this first meeting - let's hope she doesnt sample the service!

There are no events this week in ROI

A busy week ahead in Legal Island, many trips to Starbucks are planned to fuel our energy levels.

Guest Writer: Vanessa Porter

Meetings, networking and events
This week started with the opening of our new Training Suite and it was all hands on deck to get everything ready for the grand event. This took place on Monday evening and was a great success. There were over 20 attendees and a real buzz created about the new facilities which are now officially open for business and are already getting bookings.

Also this week. Pamela is attending a Dawn Baird Social Media Breakfast on Wednesday and Scott will be at a conference on Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland on Friday.

People

Congratulations this week to Heather who has completed her first week as Acting Conference Manager (NI) with four successful events held last week and to Donna who has been promoted to Office Manager.

Conferences

There are four conferences taking place in Dublin this week

• Dismissal & Disciplinary Issues


• Effective Absence Management


• Managing Disciplinary & Grievance


• Mastering the HR Function

There is a lot of excitement around our new Education Law Update which is being held this Thursday just outside of Belfast with Barry, Jayne and Vanessa in attendance.

Guest Writer: Michelle Horrobin

This week marks the start of Season 2 events for us and the build-up to our new training suite opening on Monday - exciting and challenging times!

Of Networking and Meetings...

Knowing someone well means successful business relationships and at Legal-Island it's something all of us strive towards - whether it is us providing useful information and contacts to others or gaining such help in return.

This week Jayne and Barry met with Jim McBain - Northern Ireland Regional Officer for the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), and with us launching our very first Education Law Update Seminar on 24th September it proved to be a very useful meeting.

Fresh from her meeting with the Belfast Telegraph meeting last week, Pamela is all set for her Prince's Trust evening for mentors tomorrow - I think she'll make a great mentor.

As for me I have had a very busy and exciting week meeting with PR photographer Carrie Davenport in preparation for the opening of training suite next week, as well as meeting Dawn Baird and Jim Montgomery about our increasing use of Twitter and the promotion of our new breakfast seminars on the subject!

Kicking off Season 2 - a very busy 3 months ahead

Heather and Scott are in Belfast this week with the start of the season 2 events in the North:

• Essentials of Employment Law
• Dismissals & Disciplinary Matters
• Equality Law in NI Update 2009
• Top Tips for Short Presentations

As for Jayne well she is back in Dublin as we have 2 events there this week:

• Essentials of Employment Law
• Dismissal & Disciplinary Issues

With all this going on we are also busy preparing for our Annual Review of Employment Law events and November and I am already starting to put together the brochure for our events in 2010 - it's all go here and I wouldn't have it any other way!!

Guest Writer: Pamela Park

Many of us have just returned from our holidays and this week we'll be concentrating on preparations for the beginning of season 2.

Meetings, networking and events

Scott and I are really excited about our meeting at the Belfast Telegraph offices. We'll be meeting Karen Moore and Paddi Roberts from the Belfast Telegraph; Lisa Bryson from Carson McDowell; Jane Wells from JPR; Liz Torrans and Kerry Canavan from Carecall and Roisin McNamara from Parity. We're coming together to discuss possible speakers and the programme for the next Annual Northern Ireland HR Conference, which will take place next year. Last year's event was very successful so we're hoping to build on that and make this event the biggest HR event of the year!

Barry has got his creative hat on this week as he heads off to an innovation seminar orgainsed by Invest NI and PricewaterhouseCoopers. I am looking forward to all the ideas that he'll bring back with him.