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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

Book Review – The Thought Leadership Manual by Tim Prizeman

I read “Thought Leadership Manual – How to grab your clients’ attention with powerful ideas” a while ago but I’ve been so busy I didn’t get round to writing the review. And it’s an important book that many marketing, communications and business development folk will find useful. Tim starts with a Read More

2016-06-01T10:06:17+01:00June 1, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property|

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|

Legal market research – Perceptions and needs of consumers and small businesses

I regularly facilitate a public training session for CLT on “Client care, service excellence and retention” http://www.clt.co.uk/course/Client-Care-Service-Excellence-and-Retention/. During the workshop we spend time considering various legal market research reports. I have blogged a lot about commercial client research and the needs of general counsel in the past (see the related Read More

2016-04-24T12:37:49+01:00April 24, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Statistics and trends|

Being more strategic – Six insights (Bias, Data, Complexity, Tolerance, Journey, Skills)

Earlier this week, Norton Rose kindly hosted another presentation of the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” training session where 18 delegates from solicitors, barristers, accountancy, actuarial and property firms attended. As always, at the end I asked which topics resonated most with the delegates and these were the main insights: Read More

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