Here is a summary of the highlights of the MBL “Business development for professional service firms” conference which took place in London on 1st October 2014. The delegates were an interesting mix – half were fee-earners and the others were marketing/business development professionals. Medium sized law firms dominated although there Read More
Continuing the blog series on "Legal client feedback" Robin Saphra, Group General Counsel of Colt (telecommunications, IT and data centres with 65 lawyers in his team and a £12m legal budget) shared his views on relationships with professional service firms at the September 2014 Professional Marketing Forum Conference: Three years Read More
A couple of months ago there was a bit of a furore about reports that some business development and marketing people at London’s top law firms were being paid as much as £477,000 (even though this turned out to be a combination of the highest base salary awarded (£345,000) combined Read More
I have a long association with the single father organisations Onlydads http://www.onlydads.org/ (see, for example the Westminster Fathers debate http://kimtasso.com/westminster-debate-for-fathers/ and also the research into the cost of divorce http://kimtasso.com/the-price-of-divorce-survey-results/ . Dadshouse http://www.dadshouse.org.uk/ is a related organisation for single dads. So I was interested to see that a new members Read More
I noticed some interesting divorce and family statistics relating to the family law market today: At a Resolution event it was reported that the cost of relationship breakdown in the UK is in the region of £44 billion a year The Daily Telegraph ran a report on the hidden Read More