6th September: Guest Writer Jacqui

These are exciting times for us here on the Island as we have 4 new Annual Review Conferences taking place in England over October and November, to find out more, go to http://www.legal-island-events.com/. This may well be a "baptism of fire" for our new Administrator, Bronagh, who comes to us with 20 years of experience.



We have Sharon Simpson coming on board today as Housekeeper for our Training suite and she will be ensuring that the offices are in pristine order too. Sharon will be looking after Northern Trust who have availed of the training rooms today.



Other items of interest:



Barry is still on leave in Syria, no doubt having fun while squeezing in some networking!!



Scott will be chairing the Antrim/Ballymena HR Network on 7 September at the premises of Firmus. The HR Network is a loose affiliation of local HR professionals who come together every six weeks or so to discuss issues of mutual interest. The HR Network is open to anyone with HR responsibilities in the Antrim/Ballymena area. Guest speakers this time around are Harry Harpur from The Loop Training and Laura Kerr from Young Enterprise NI.

On Wednesday Scott will be networking in Dublin. He will be meeting with Eversheds sols; Hayes sols; Marian Jennings (chair of Dublin Annual Review of Employment Law conferences); Byrne Wallace sols; and John Horgan.

Then on Friday Scott will be taking time off, as he sees his eldest daughter fly the nest off to university in Scotland.



Heather will be going down to Dublin to view a few other venues in and around Dublin in the morning and afternoon. She will also meet with Scott and Marian for a well deserved lunch.



Jayne will continue working on the EFQM submission this week, taking Thursday off to focus on the paperwork and work from home.



Marketing continue to organise mailshots and set up event information on our websites. The only meeting this week for Ainsley, is on Wednesday morning when he meets with Brian and Alan Nelson of Forth Data to discuss an audit of our internal databases.



Finally, James will be returning to work tomorrow (we hope!!) after he completed a 10k run in Yorkshire yesterday.