During the summer I worked with The Lawyer magazine analysing the real estate costs in law firms. Real estate costs and a wide range of other financial and head count data for over a 100 of the UK’s 200 leading law firms were analysed to produce the first detailed report Read More
I wrote the lead article on “Marketing to the elderly” in Private Client Adviser magazine back in September 2008 http://www.privateclientadviser.co.uk/feature/financial-planning/cover-story-marketing-legal-services-grey-market and have worked with the private client teams of many law firms since then. So it was nice to be invited to address accountants on the subject at the “Elderly Read More
Earlier this year I worked on some legal market research with The Lawyer magazine to analyse the huge amount of data collected from 530 in-house lawyers for the fourth In-house attitudes survey. My executive summary of that report was published in June 2015 http://www.thelawyer.com/in-house/positive-attitudes-in-house-attitudes-report-executive-summary/3035939.article and the main points were as follows: Read More
Two recent reports concerning Digital marketing and social media in the legal sector. Law Society Social Media Practice Note In June, The Law Society revised its social media “good practice” note (original published in December 2011) with specific reference to professional conduct on client care, confidentiality, publicity and relations with Read More
Some recent Legal sector research, the LexisNexis Bellwether Report 2015 http://businessoflaw.lexisnexis.co.uk/download-the-bellwether-report-2015/ obtained the views of 118 lawyers and over 500 private clients. The main findings are that: Increasing client power “A new breed of smart client has emerged – empowered by technology and the internet, always searching for best value Read More
