Law firm management

The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit – Crystal balls, Change, Connection, CRM and Collaboration. And don’t forget the Millennials.

The end of September marks the annual Business Leadership Summit and Awards from The Lawyer magazine so I was at The Brewery in Chiswell Street bright and early for a day of commercial insights from lawyer business leaders. I was not disappointed.  What is the office for? - The Lawyer Read More

2016-10-08T13:36:28+01:00October 8, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

The Lawyer UK 200 Workspace report – Law firm use of real estate

During the summer months I spent much of my time visiting the offices of solicitors and barristers around the UK, interviewing JLL’s property agents in the Big Six UK cities and knee-deep in data to produce an article and 20,000 word data-rich, benchmarking report for the second The Lawyer UK Read More

2016-09-19T09:34:33+01:00September 19, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Client service insights – Empathy, measurement and reverse thinking

Three recent news reports captured my attention on client service insights for law firms and professional service firms.  Addleshaw Goddard solicitors uses empathy Addleshaw Goddard – a major law firm – topped the charts for client service (performance and value for money) in the Nisus Consulting research http://www.nisus.net/   to become Read More

2017-03-16T12:35:22+00:00July 4, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Legal market research – LexisNexis Bellwether 2016 report highlights

Legal market research in the LexisNexis Bellwether Report 2016 “The riddle of perception” was recently published. The research involved structured interviews with 122 independent lawyers and 108 clients of which 93% had experience of private client legal matters. Some of the highlights from the report include: Just under half of Read More

Legal market research – The 2016 NatWest Financial Benchmarking Report

This continues the series of blogs reviewing legal market research. For the fourth year, the NatWest Professional Services team has worked with accountant Robert Mowbray to produce a report looking at 390 law firms (employing 17,200 people and with a combined income of £1.43bn) in the SME sector (revenues below Read More

2016-05-13T17:20:34+01:00May 13, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Statistics and trends|
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