LinkedIn is a goldmine if you’re prospecting for cringe, and in what should really be a regular feature, this week a reader spotted a perfect egg plopped out by a partner. What on earth comes over perfectly smart people when they get onto that platform? Please note, the source changed the first line. ROF agrees it reads better as amended.
Some Ashurst alumni got a surprise from Meta this week when Facebook recommended a profile called ‘@Ashurst.2025”. Expecting an invitation to a reunion, what they got was, well… slightly more busty:
Lastly, a reader who came across ROF's story about an office manager using firm funds to get wine home delivered wants to know, “has anyone interviewed [a law firm boss] about him consistently getting [the firm’s] post-room staff to use company facilities to deliver wine to his (amply large) home?”
It "sounds an awful lot like director's misfeasance or unlawful reduction of assets to me", they said: "but what would a mere corporate lawyer know!"
As ever, if you've spotted something: https://www.rollonfriday.com/basic-page/send-your-news
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Is that a syrup perched atop Mr O’C’s cranium?
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The nonsense dribbling from William Peake on Linkedin is enough to keep me away from that platform! #winning!
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What a plonker!
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The self-selected legal LinkedInfluncers are really cringeworthy.
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I like the 'Best of Linked' twitter account, which showcases overzealous cretins squandering other people's time/screen space with unbelievably contrived anecdotes: https://x.com/bestoflinkedin
That said, I actually like William Peake's LinkedIn feed, and I messaged him recently to that effect (I'm not at Harneys, and The Powers That Be at my place would whinge if I 'liked' anything from William on LinkedIn). Few other partners' feeds, whether at Harneys or otherwise, are quite as engaging. He also shows an element of humanity which is depressingly absent from certain firms' offices' global or local management.
More broadly, while LinkedIn is full of dross, I've largely managed to exclude all but legal updates, via the borderline autistic exercise of silencing anyone who posts anything except case law updates. That way, I've actually made LinkedIn into quite a useful tool, because Commercial and Chancery barristers, and their respective chambers marketing teams, helpfully throw themselves at the platform in an effort to show off how intelligent and up to date they are with the most recent case law.
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Legal LinkedIn is a veritable smutfest of grifting ‘consultants’ and the professional victim. A misery memoir untroubled by facts and truth. And there’s lots of mutual back scratching (best case scenario)
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For entertainment on linkedin look for a certain Scots lawyer (not clergs)
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Speaking of gossip! What about Weightmans getting caught using AI to write thier own positive reviews on Glassdoor and Trust Pilot
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