Money Can’t Be Me Love (but it can get you a good legal team!)

On the steps of the High Court Heather Mills attempted to spin her divorce settlement as a victory. The fact that she had represented herself, saved approx £600,000 in legal fees & negotiated a settlement of £24.2 million was dressed up as a positive outcome. Unfortunately, like much of Heather Mills’ life the facts don’t quite add up.

The legal fees really are small change when compared to her initial petition for £125 million and the widely predicted settlement somewhere in the region of £30 million. To spend £600,000 to gain £4 million seems simple arithmetic. In the logarithms of Heather Mills’ mind for some reason it doesn’t. The loss in the region of £4 million is dressed up as win. I can’t believe she is really that self deluded.

The harsh reality is that the money Paul McCartney spent on his legal team was money very well spent. Mills hubris, her misplaced beliefs that lack even the basic rudimentary skills and with no legal training that she could negotiate a positive outcome has back fired spectacularly.

McCartney’s side of the case was represented by Fiona Shackleton of Payne Hicks Beach LLP. Shackleton who represented Prince Charles in his divorce from Diana, in contrast with Heather Mills total inexperience, is a lawyer at the top of her profession. Although McCartney has lost out on some minor points; the yearly amount for his daughter, the upper limit of salary for her nanny. In the cold light of day he has come out of the settlement much better than his ex-wife. The settlement has barely dented his vast wealth. In comparison to the divorce settlement of Michael Jordon £75.5 million, Neil Diamond £75.5 million and Steven Spielberg £50 million it can be seen as a huge failure. Heather Mills hasn’t secured even a pyrrhic victory, no she has just highlighted the need for quality legal advice and a top legal team.

Michelle Jones ©

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Awards ceremony for the UK online recruitment industry

The Onrec.com Awards has been established to celebrate the success, growth, innovation and talent within the Online Recruitment Industry. This year it was celebrated on Wednesday 5th March at the Café Royal in London, with c400 attendees.

A few of us from Simply Online attended, along with entertaining clients from MKH Advertising and Barkers to name a few. Simply Sales Jobs was nominated for the Innovative Online Marketing Award for marketing it does on the Ecademy business networking website. Ian Partington, Managing Director of Simply Online Services was also nominated for Personality of the Year Award! Sadly, we were not winners on the night but it was certainly enjoyed by all.

Press Release: Simply bucking the online recruitment trend

Leading law recruitment jobs website, SimplyLawJobs.com, has reported that February was its best month for job applications since its launch in April 2004. They were even higher than January, which traditionally is an excellent month within the recruitment industry.

Michelle Jones, Project Manager for SimplyLawJobs.com said: “Over the last few months we have seen a 100% increase in applications compared with last year. We have an excellent marketing plan in place which is really starting to pay dividends for our client advertisers.”

“Not only have we seen a massive increase in applications, our unique visitors have reached an all-time high and with two dedicated Account Managers, James Halstead and Lisa Johnson, our clients can expect attention to detail when promoting themselves and their jobs via SimplyLawJobs.com.”

Since becoming part of Simply Online, who operate a number of leading niche job-boards, including SimplySalesJobs.co.uk, SimplyMarketingJobs.co.uk and SimplyPRJobs.co.uk, the legal niche job board has gone from strength to strength.

As a group, all of the Simply job boards have recorded increases in some way – whether it be numbers of clients or job-seekers. David Capper, Sales Manager for Simply Online commented on February: “I am delighted with the team’s performance this month. For one reason or other, the recruitment industry in general has been a little quieter than normal; however this has not stopped any of the team and they have all managed to bring in high levels of new business.”

SimplyLawJobs.com currently hosts over 13,000 job vacancies of all levels, including support roles, across all of the legal practice areas. Found out what you could be missing out on: www.simplylawjobs.com/recruiters/

For more information about SimplyLawJobs.com please contact Michelle Jones on 01373 865181 or email michelle@simplylawjobs.com

Simply Running for Cancer

Our very own Michelle Jones is running (well lightly jogging!) the Race for Life this year and would really appreciate any sponsorship you can donate - even a few quid.

You can make a pledge online using the link below: www.blogger.com/www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/michelleheywood

The pic is of Michelle after the event in 2006 - quick get an ambulance.