At the risk of ‘Dan Spamming’ you (even more than usual) – I thought that I’d share the following from the ‘Home’ page of my firm’s website:-
Equitable Law has always been a ‘remote-first’ law practice, and we should be able to assist you (during the Covid-19 outbreak) without the need for us to physically meet – using our highly developed cloud-based communications and business facilities (available via):-
Request To Schedule A Conversation
Low/No-Cost Conferencing (+) Facilities
As some of you know – My 'contact book' has (for over a decade) included various branches of the U.S. Federal Government - broadly associated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.
The reward for (frankly) having contact with potentially rather dangerous people to know – Is that I’ve always been comfortable of being able to call upon the U.S. Army / Veterans Administration to send a ‘Black Hawk with wheels’ to my front door, and whisk me off to a U.S. military hospital - because (heck forbid) I’d contracted SARS or Ebola as part of this association (= There is still a possible ‘trip in an ambulance’ by virtue of my current Covid-19 symptoms - but I’m desperately seeking to avoid the same - for multiple reasons, that I’m sure you can understand!)
That’s why I built my business as ‘remote-first’ from its earliest days – So I could work from anywhere around the world without interruption for my firm's clients (who often never know where I actually am - upon any given date)
The relevant red text upon my business' website’s home page (www.EquitableLaw.com) directs to the same links as the grey boxes in all of my emails.
Don’t click upon the Red or Blue Text upon my firm's conferencing page – Unless you want to be directly connected to me (= I’ve seen far too many of my clients in their bathrobes / PJs over the last few days!)
The Red Text referencing my Skype address actually links to:- https://whereby.com/danrjohnson
It’s a free, operating in a browser (no software download), easy to use - but fully functional - web-conferencing system – as used by online pharmacies, the NHS in the UK and various developing economies' health and other public services (as they are often still running Windows XP (!) and not able to download any software to their PCs). There is an app. for smartphones.
My ‘contacts’ in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta (and in the US Military) – swear by it.
I will use Zoom (if requested to do so) – and occasionally opt to do so - because it allows me to impose a personalised background – which I use to hide Mar-a-Lago and the palm trees (that you can see out of the window behind me) when I’m in Palm Beach.
Please feel free to use any of my business' 'Com.Tech' to seek to reach me in these troubled times.
I AM presently in London (but close to Heathrow - with my 'TUMI' packed / 'Shoulder Slung Office' = ready to go!)
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Tuesday 31 March 2020
Sunday 29 March 2020
Preparing For A Boris Johnson Shambles (Of A Response To A Pandemic) . . .
Why (you may ask) would you undertake such a review?
The answer (as sadly has become all too clear) is that there was a considerable danger of a lunatic 'EU Quitter' / Vladimir Putin & American Neo-Liberal backed #VoteLeave wing of the Conservative Party being elected with a sole remit of taking the UK into serious economic hardship upon Brexit - while simultaneously completely neglecting the obvious risks posed by a gathering global pandemic in the Far East.
Many people seem blissfully unaware that the UK has since Summer 2019 effectively been run by an 'unelected bureaucrat' in Dominic Cummings (whom it is widely believed - since he had a disastrous foray in the collapsing C.I.S. in the mid-1990s - to be an agent of the Russian state, and effectively Vladimir Putin's 'inside man' charged with causing as much destruction to the United Kingdom as possible).
Certainly, when I met him for the first time in Moscow (in 19980 his interests were in helping Russia default upon its sovereign debts to the West, and NOT to help the World economic system - which was teetering on the edge after the default of Long Term Capital in 1997.
Putin is greatly aided in his foreign policy aims by having managed to maneuver into apparent power in various sovereign states around the World - what Soviet-era security services describe as 'useful idiots' (and a better description of #realDonaldTrump and #BorisJohnson I have yet to read).
There is a reason why the UK Security Services > Parliamentary Report into Russian influence in the UK has still not been published; and my limited dealings with #BorisJohnson - since my involvement with him prior to 2012 > Re: the organisation of the London Olympics, has led me to believe him to be a man 'who couldn't run a bath without assistance'.
As many of you have 'complained' about my trying to warn you about what the motivation for Brexit was, and rather too many of you voted for the Tories in December 2019 - The time had come in late 2019 for me to focus upon my business and well-being.
I started by upgrading my broadband to the fastest possible (120 Mbs) provided over copper by the UK backbone supplier - BT (i.e. giving up the fragile / slightly cheaper supplier which used BT Openreach's older equipment). The installation date was in the third week of November (See annexed copy email).
In my 'office' (on the King's Road) I upgraded that broadband to another supplier ('Virgin' branded / US capital-backed fibre - which runs at in excess of 200 Mbs)
Once the election had occurred and the Tories had won - I accelerated the process, buying myself a brand new / top of the range iPhone 11s on 18th December (See annexed). I buy a new phone (these days) about once every five to six (~5-6) years; and I was really waiting for 5G functionality - but I needed to ensure that I had the d*gs b*ll*cks for what was coming = Nil per cent. (0%) credit contact on a GBP £1,500 phone.
I wanted all my IT kit to be up-to-date and in my possession (as I considered the likelihood of civil insurrection and 'flakey' national I.T. to be quite high - and you ain't seen nothing yet).
Putin is greatly aided in his foreign policy aims by having managed to maneuver into apparent power in various sovereign states around the World - what Soviet-era security services describe as 'useful idiots' (and a better description of #realDonaldTrump and #BorisJohnson I have yet to read).
There is a reason why the UK Security Services > Parliamentary Report into Russian influence in the UK has still not been published; and my limited dealings with #BorisJohnson - since my involvement with him prior to 2012 > Re: the organisation of the London Olympics, has led me to believe him to be a man 'who couldn't run a bath without assistance'.
As many of you have 'complained' about my trying to warn you about what the motivation for Brexit was, and rather too many of you voted for the Tories in December 2019 - The time had come in late 2019 for me to focus upon my business and well-being.
I started by upgrading my broadband to the fastest possible (120 Mbs) provided over copper by the UK backbone supplier - BT (i.e. giving up the fragile / slightly cheaper supplier which used BT Openreach's older equipment). The installation date was in the third week of November (See annexed copy email).
In my 'office' (on the King's Road) I upgraded that broadband to another supplier ('Virgin' branded / US capital-backed fibre - which runs at in excess of 200 Mbs)
Once the election had occurred and the Tories had won - I accelerated the process, buying myself a brand new / top of the range iPhone 11s on 18th December (See annexed). I buy a new phone (these days) about once every five to six (~5-6) years; and I was really waiting for 5G functionality - but I needed to ensure that I had the d*gs b*ll*cks for what was coming = Nil per cent. (0%) credit contact on a GBP £1,500 phone.
I wanted all my IT kit to be up-to-date and in my possession (as I considered the likelihood of civil insurrection and 'flakey' national I.T. to be quite high - and you ain't seen nothing yet).
Basically, my kit is tip-top (my main work PC being a rebuilt server with 2GB spinning hard drive, supported by a 1GB solid-state hard drive - with a CPU running a close to 4Ghz.
I have for a significant time had a complete back-up IT system based in Staffordshire (PCs, Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones) should I yet need to flee London.
The only additional expense was passing on my Apple Airpods to my Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Mr Aleks Johnson - With new Airpods Pros arriving at the end of January 2020.
I habitually ski in Cortina, Italy between Christmas and early-January each year, courtesy of a good friend and his family, but none of decided it was a good idea in 2019/20 > Northern Italy was already a 'plague zone' at the turn of the year.
January involved the introduction to my business of an intern - Ms. Sophie Adam, with a plan for her to work remotely from various places across mainland Europe where I might need her to be (and I was unlikely to be able to travel to).
January involved the introduction to my business of an intern - Ms. Sophie Adam, with a plan for her to work remotely from various places across mainland Europe where I might need her to be (and I was unlikely to be able to travel to).
Sophie is currently in Strasbourg - ready to liaise with the EU in Brussels, or the French Govt. in Paris / the German Govt. in Berlin. My view was and remains that the EU and the French and German Govt.s are likely to have a much better understanding of this situation than the Muppets in my own country (let alone the U.S).
It may yet be that I will re-locate to this firm's 'European Private Office' on the Rue Nicolo in the 16th Arrondissement in Paris, or the German Federal Govt.s bunker in Berlin / Possibly a beach-front property that I am blessed to have access to Montpellier (amongst other locations) - but I'm sure as heck NOT going to the U.S.A. or Brazil (or indeed - a number of other working locations I can generally utilise).
Do please feel free to introduce you to Ms. Adam:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-adam1/
Ms Adam helped me with a significant upgrade to my banking facilities - Involving the re-introduction of one of the world's largest banks (to work in tandem with the challenger banks I had been 'experimenting' with), as robustness of financial systems seemed advisable.
I also significantly upgraded my utilisation methods for PayPal (adopting physical bank cards), together with a range of other banking actions (full invoicing and payment functionalities in 160 currencies). Everything is duplicated across at least two (2) financial service suppliers.
Early February involved a significant review of my comms. methods - including a full adoption of 'Zoom' - Liked by clients (even if my preference if for 'WhatsApp', 'Whereby' (and 'FreeConferenceCall.com') - All of which are system specifically built / invested in by the U.S. and Norwegian Govt.s to cope during complete social breakdown and/or be used in economies with 'straining' IT / comms. systems).
Sadly we didn't get the alternative website up and running - although I have two (2) additional domain names (including EquitableLaw.London and EquitableLaw.UK) which provide separate server stacks - geographically well away (Manchester) from the servers running EquitableLaw.com (=Thames Valley).
Most of the rest of my IT runs on the big four of Silicon Valley (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) with duplication across every service.
Don't tell me the Corona Virus outbreak was unexpected, and that Boris Johnson is doing a good job.
The impending feck up of the U.K. economy by this H.M. Govt. was an obvious risk - although I'll grant you - even I didn't believe they could do this much damage in so short a period of time.
I wish you the very best - Heck knows, distress is good for Business Law Solicitors.
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Do please feel free to introduce you to Ms. Adam:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-adam1/
Ms Adam helped me with a significant upgrade to my banking facilities - Involving the re-introduction of one of the world's largest banks (to work in tandem with the challenger banks I had been 'experimenting' with), as robustness of financial systems seemed advisable.
I also significantly upgraded my utilisation methods for PayPal (adopting physical bank cards), together with a range of other banking actions (full invoicing and payment functionalities in 160 currencies). Everything is duplicated across at least two (2) financial service suppliers.
Early February involved a significant review of my comms. methods - including a full adoption of 'Zoom' - Liked by clients (even if my preference if for 'WhatsApp', 'Whereby' (and 'FreeConferenceCall.com') - All of which are system specifically built / invested in by the U.S. and Norwegian Govt.s to cope during complete social breakdown and/or be used in economies with 'straining' IT / comms. systems).
Sadly we didn't get the alternative website up and running - although I have two (2) additional domain names (including EquitableLaw.London and EquitableLaw.UK) which provide separate server stacks - geographically well away (Manchester) from the servers running EquitableLaw.com (=Thames Valley).
Most of the rest of my IT runs on the big four of Silicon Valley (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) with duplication across every service.
Don't tell me the Corona Virus outbreak was unexpected, and that Boris Johnson is doing a good job.
The impending feck up of the U.K. economy by this H.M. Govt. was an obvious risk - although I'll grant you - even I didn't believe they could do this much damage in so short a period of time.
I wish you the very best - Heck knows, distress is good for Business Law Solicitors.
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Equitable Law = 'Remote-First' Solicitors For Business
Equitable_Law has ALWAYS been a ‘remote-first’ #legal practice, since being founded in 2011.
(= Q. We may have 'London' feature heavily in our marketing . . . but are we really?
A. Answer - Yes, (Generally) and we'll meet you in St. James's in 35 minutes is something we can generally offer / Although not at the moment - For obvious reasons).
Time willing, we should be able to legally advise and assist you, without the need for us to physically meet – using our highly developed cloud-based communications and business etc. facilities.
These links have ALWAYS been upon EquitableLaw.com's home page:-
https://lnkd.in/gH7iSAk
https://lnkd.in/gCfYVgv
They remain there now - Please feel free to use them.
It's 'utter carnage out there' - But if you have a business problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find (time with) me, maybe you can hire:-
https://lnkd.in/geqBK2U
(If we are not available!)
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
(= Q. We may have 'London' feature heavily in our marketing . . . but are we really?
A. Answer - Yes, (Generally) and we'll meet you in St. James's in 35 minutes is something we can generally offer / Although not at the moment - For obvious reasons).
Time willing, we should be able to legally advise and assist you, without the need for us to physically meet – using our highly developed cloud-based communications and business etc. facilities.
These links have ALWAYS been upon EquitableLaw.com's home page:-
https://lnkd.in/gH7iSAk
https://lnkd.in/gCfYVgv
They remain there now - Please feel free to use them.
It's 'utter carnage out there' - But if you have a business problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find (time with) me, maybe you can hire:-
https://lnkd.in/geqBK2U
(If we are not available!)
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
The Steve McQueen Mantra . . .
It’s ‘absolute chaos out there’ (as I’m sure I don’t need to tell you).
I’m not generally a #lawyer who deals with contentious matters . . . Although it has been said of me that (upon occasion) I undertake non-contentious #law in a very contentious way . . .
I realise I’ve always been a fan of the ‘Steve McQueen Mantra’:–
"I decide what is right and what is wrong [in these circumstances] and I don't have to explain it to anybody - [I’m just going to tell you how it is].” . . .“I won’t pick a fight with you, but if you pick a fight with [my client] or back [my client] into a corner I will f£cking kill you.”
https://lnkd.in/gzeJ2yt
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
I’m not generally a #lawyer who deals with contentious matters . . . Although it has been said of me that (upon occasion) I undertake non-contentious #law in a very contentious way . . .
I realise I’ve always been a fan of the ‘Steve McQueen Mantra’:–
"I decide what is right and what is wrong [in these circumstances] and I don't have to explain it to anybody - [I’m just going to tell you how it is].” . . .“I won’t pick a fight with you, but if you pick a fight with [my client] or back [my client] into a corner I will f£cking kill you.”
https://lnkd.in/gzeJ2yt
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Thursday 26 March 2020
WATCH OUT FOR THE CORONAVIRUS FRAUDSTERS (!)
I promised I wouldn't join in the rush of law firms seeking to market on the back of the coronavirus outbreak - but this is intended to be a public service announcement.
The chaotic business interruption being experienced across the world (at present) appears to have emboldened the scumbag fraudsters (who always 'make life interesting' for business lawyers), and as a firm, www.EquitableLaw.com has seen a significant increase in a wide range of frauds.
Amongst those we've seen in recent weeks - is the renaissance of the 'long firm fraud' (which I thought 'went out when the Krays went to jail' = It contributed a significant part of their earnings).
Basically, a 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_firm_fraud' involves a company being fraudulently formed, acquired and/or 'hijacked' by fraudsters - who seek to give it an appearance of being much more prestigious and substantial that it actually is.
A false set of accounts (in such circumstances) allows such fraudulent company to order goods from careless suppliers who rely upon filed information without thinking, and when those suppliers seek subsequent payment - the goods, the sale proceeds and the fraudsters are long gone.
Such fraud is greatly helped if the fraudster can associate the company being used with a prestigious accountancy/audit practice and a blue-chip firm of Solicitors.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present 'Solihull Stores Limited':- https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10861003
PwC contacted me recently to ascertain 'what I knew'.
TO CLARIFY -WE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THEM!
However, I'm not finding the fact that someone claims my firm has an association with PwC at all funny (Attempt at humour / No offence intended - Nor, I hope/trust taken?!)
With Best Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Coranovirus - Business Guidance By Way Of Legal Advice and Assistance
We have just completed our overview note of guidance to our clients of some of the legal and practical issues arising from the threat of business disruption resulting from epidemics such as Covid-19 (a coranovirus), pandemics, civil emergencies and civil unrest.
Our note specifically looks at how you might plan for the mitigation of the effects of these risks in your business continuity (disaster recovery or serious incident management).
It also covers sick pay and the employment law implications of self-isolation in the event of a pandemic.
Please contact me if you would appreciate a copy of the same:-
Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Our note specifically looks at how you might plan for the mitigation of the effects of these risks in your business continuity (disaster recovery or serious incident management).
It also covers sick pay and the employment law implications of self-isolation in the event of a pandemic.
Please contact me if you would appreciate a copy of the same:-
Regards
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
Tuesday 10 March 2020
The results of the Legal Awards 2020, proudly hosted by SME News for the second year, have now been finalised.
Equitable Law is delighted to announce that it has been successful this year, and has been awarded:-
Best Entrepreneurial Business Law Firm 2020
Award for Excellence in Private Securities Finance 2020
Research was centred around an in-depth evaluation of skills and services on offer. The wider market reputation of each nominee was also taken into consideration. This prestigious award marks the hard work and stellar efforts of those who have helped shape this dynamic and passionate law firm.
Further details are available from:-
Dan.Johnson@EquitableLaw.com
Founding Principal & Business Law Solicitor (British Lawyer)
+44 (0) 7788 537 187 : U.K. Cellular (& e-Telephone)
www.EquitableLaw.London - Solicitors For Business
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