Thanks to the Managing Partners' Forum Strategy Summit at haysmacintyre earlier this week. My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst Read More
I regularly review and summarise benchmark reports for law, accountancy, property and consultancy businesses. So here are two 2023 benchmarks for law firms: The Law Society/Hazelwoods and the Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM)/Crowe. It’s interesting to compare the results from the two benchmarks. The Law Society and Hazelwoods Read More
I’m excited to announce that the Managing Partners’ Forum has just launched a series of six modules for an innovative leadership development programme for firm-wide leaders of small and medium sized professional services firms. Versions for divisional, functional and aspiring leaders are expected in 2024. I have supported Richard Chaplin Read More
I’ve known David Brady – the serial entrepreneur specialising in professional services marketing technology – for more years than either of us care to acknowledge (but see the articles below if you’re interested). Vuture – his first martech contribution in the digital marketing space – is a recognised and trusted Read More
Between August 2019 and March 2020 I analysed a huge amount of information and research relating to the importance of soft skills within the UK legal profession. I also interviewed over 20 people from large and small law firms – lawyers and learning & development professionals – as well as Read More
