I spent yesterday at the lovely Fanhams Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire with the 12 law firms who make up Law South. There were four speakers (Professor Richard Susskind OBE, Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Tim Aspinall of DMH Stallard and myself) and two interactive sessions with the 50 or so members using electronic Read More
Branding is tricky at the best of times. But when you have to apply the process to yourself or your own business it becomes almost impossible. When I established my first company - Practical Marketing Consultancy Ltd - way back in 1994 the world was a very different place. Almost Read More
I noticed that a large proportion of my web traffic results from people searching on this subject. So I have just written an article for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/ which takes an overview of the impact of technology on marketing in the professions. It covers the following subjects: Planning, segmentation and Read More
This was the headline screaming out from the front page of City AM this week http://www.cityam.com/latest-news/legal-firms-hit-fresh-downturn The main thrust of the news was that Slaughter & May froze associate salaries and Herbert Smith announced 51 redundancies. The lack of corporate deals was cited as the main cause but further restructuring Read More
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics showed that in 2010: 5.5% of heterosexual marriages ended in divorce after four years 2.5% of a total of 42,778 civil partnerships in the same period were dissolved 44% of civil partnerships are entered into by women, but they file for Read More
