Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to all our readers wherever you are.

Welcome to our May 2021 Newsletter.  It’s been a busy month. Rumour has it that summer is on the way and so we live in hope that the rain will stop and as lockdown eases we can look forward to spending time with family and friends and possibly even seeing some of you lovely people in our office.  We have really missed being able to spend time with you in person over a cup of coffee finding out how we can help you.

We hope you will find this months articles of interest and of course if anything makes you think that you would like to discuss you own circumstances then all you have to do is give us a call on 0114 272 9721 or drop us and email.

If there is any area of law you would like us to feature in future newsletters then please just let us know.

Please also by all means connect with us via LinkedIn 

Our favourite regular posts on LinkedIn this month have been from Stuart Goldsmith.   Some of you might know Stuart as the stand-up comedian and all round good guy and presenter of the Comedians Comedian Podcast.  For the past month Stu has been posting very short videos offering business resilience advice and insights from from his interviews with “people who can’t do their jobs without a mindset to achieve the impossible.”

As our regular readers will know we also like to feature local businesses in our newsletter so if would like an outlet to communicate with our readership then just drop us a line and we will offer whatever support we can.  Also if you have a newsletter and need a contribution, we will happily write an article that might be of value to your readers – we love a bit of reciprocation.

That’s about all for now. Have a pleasant bank holiday weekend from all at LFBB.

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