A colleague recently loaned me this collection of Patricia Highsmith short stories saying, “awful cover, great book”. They were right.

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🔨 What are law firms doing in the face of the growing DEI debate?

“You’d need a majority of people to believe we’re all woke and I can’t see that happening,” Bartier Perry partner James Mattson said.

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🎉 First Prima Facie of the year is out.

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📰 This week: I've spoken with Herbert Smith Freehills' Kam Jamshidi and King & Wood Mallesons' Mark McNamara about ASIC's interest in private markets for the year ahead.

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Tonight at book club we discussed this recent @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winner. And oh what discussion a tiny book can prompt! I admired it before for its poeticism… post book chat, I think it’s quietly brilliant.

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Book thoughts on this extremely popular debut. It’s fine. Grab it for the beach and enjoy the excruciating takedown of office dynamics.

It's newsletter day for me @capitalbrief.com. This week in Prima Facie, I look at what right to disconnect laws mean for the legal industry at a time of changing workplace cultures and employee expectations.

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Hosting a chat on Thursday evening at Better Read Than Dead book shop. I’ll be speaking with Mekong Review managing editor Kirsten Han. Come chat! And tell me here what you love about literary reviews www.betterreadevents.com/events/kirst...

First bookish post, so make it a blockbuster. Discussed at Gleebooks’ Sunday Sessions book club yesterday: Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney. Highly rated and yet prompting high levels of frustration among almost all attendees. But is there a higher master of miscommunication? LMK.