Training can be seen as generalised advice.

It is practical and communicated in the same voice as our specific advice.

Our approach is to find out who is coming to a seminar, ask about their interests and concerns and tailor a course to what we have found out. With more senior people, we find a surgery works well as an opening as everyone has a deal or dispute that, when made sufficiently anonymous, they want to explore. Our content will touch on all the topics you will find in books on the subject, but influenced by our own day-to-day experience. That could be a libel case from a few years back or a problem that affected the press or broadcasting last week.

Online seminars are a particular interest. We don't want to do away with conventional training, but as a follow up or to cut costs, there is a real future in online work. The software and interactivity is improving all the time. We have delivered a number of courses over recent years and hope to refine and expand this work.

The journal has some notes of where we have turned up and who we have spoken to.