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UK accountancy market trends

There was an interesting piece on growth and UK accountancy market trends in Accountancy Age on 13 January looking at the trends within top 100 accountancy practices (http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2322595/full-top50-50-analysis-mixed-bag-of-success?utm_term=&utm_content=headline_title&utm_campaign=AA.Best_Practice_RL.EU.A.U&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=AA.DCM.Editors_Updates) The main points were: There were 12 new entrants into the market – in some ways this is encouraging as it shows Read More

Kim Tasso2014-01-24T09:52:10+00:00January 24, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

The decaying carcass of a law practice? Legal market trends

Rather than death by a thousand cuts, law firms are having large chunks of them bitten away by a variety of forces and one wonders how long some of these carcasses can survive. Some media refer to these as Zombie firms – but I would suggest that in business there Read More

Kim Tasso2014-01-21T09:10:58+00:00January 21, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

Delegation and project management

I recently wrote two blogs for The Future of Law blog at Lexis Nexis. The topics were delegation and project management – important and linked ideas. The articles and links to the original blogs are below. To delegate or not to delegate – that is the question During the recession, Read More

Kim Tasso2014-01-08T09:43:08+00:00January 8, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills|

Book review: Rainmakers and Trailblazers – A practical step-by-step guide to effective business development for lawyers showing how their support teams can help

At the end of November 2013, I submitted the 65,000 word manuscript to Legal Monitor for my fourth book. Whilst there are a number of existing books on business development for lawyers this one is different for a number of reasons: For all shapes and sizes of lawyers – whether Read More

Kim Tasso2013-12-18T17:28:26+00:00December 18, 2013|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling, Social Media, Strategy|

Half year review of law firm strategy and finance

As I absorb most of my news through social media these days, I occasionally go through “the great reading pile” that accumulates in my office. What’s interesting about this approach is that it is much easier to spot the general trends in law firm strategy and financial performance: Cost cutting - Redundancies Read More

Kim Tasso2013-09-04T21:21:19+01:00August 8, 2013|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Statistics and trends, Strategy|