Earlier this year I worked on some legal market research with The Lawyer magazine to analyse the huge amount of data collected from 530 in-house lawyers for the fourth In-house attitudes survey. My executive summary of that report was published in June 2015 http://www.thelawyer.com/in-house/positive-attitudes-in-house-attitudes-report-executive-summary/3035939.article and the main points were as follows: Read More
Two recent reports concerning Digital marketing and social media in the legal sector. Law Society Social Media Practice Note In June, The Law Society revised its social media “good practice” note (original published in December 2011) with specific reference to professional conduct on client care, confidentiality, publicity and relations with Read More
I recently did some work on The Lawyer’s employee workplace benefits research into 70 law firms that resulted in articles in both The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/ (15 June 2015) and Employee Benefits http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/ (July/August 2015) magazines. The overall findings were that there was less flexibility and innovation in employee benefits in Read More
I facilitated “Developing and sustaining your private client practice” courses in London and Bristol for MBL during the early part of June 2015. It seems that private client marketing is high on many law firms' agendas. The full day session covers a variety of topics – strategy and planning, market analysis, Read More
Yesterday, I was delighted that the West Midlands branch of Professional Marketing Forum invited me to run a condensed “Campaign management in the professions” session. It was a great turnout with over 30 folk from legal, accountancy, actuarial, property and patent attorney firms. We enjoyed sunshine and the wonderful hospitality Read More