City of London Police reported that the number of reported frauds rose by 64% last year. They advocate changing its name from the gentlemanly "white collar crime" to "organised crime". They highlight mortgage fraud in the property market caused by deliberate over valuing of new developments requiring conspiracies of lawyers, Read More
Spare a thought for family lawyers. And those in the residential property business. Last year the number of married people fell to less than half the population. The Office for National Statistics has now forecast that by 2031 the ranks of those who have never married will swell to 22.1m Read More
Oh dear – it seems that even when you are supremely successful at business development and generate good results for your clients, you can end up suffering at the hands of the media and your reputation takes a bashing. The mainstream and business news media devoted many column inches last Read More
There was an interesting article in The Times last week (17th March). Sir Michael Snyder (Senior partner at accountants Kingston Smith and a former policy Chairman of the City of London Corporation) made the following observations regarding the Professional Services Global Competitiveness Group report: • The professional services industry employs Read More
For one of my law firm clients I return each year to deliver two modules of their Management Development Programme – one is on strategic marketing (and the link with the business plan) and the other is on tactical marketing and selling – for the latest batch of “management trainees” Read More