Risk Management

Technology update for law firms and cybercrime insights from The Law Society Law Management Conference 2017

I recently attended The Law Society’s Law Management Section conference (#LMSConf2017 https://events.lawsociety.org.uk/ClientApps/Silverbear.Web.EDMS/public/default.aspx?tabId=37&id=1428&orgId=1&guid=1155d437-8a7a-467d-87cf-2c38cfd6fbe3) There were lots of excellent presentations and this blog (one of three) summarises the technology update for law firms and cybercrime insights. Technology overview Jeremy Hopkins of Clerkingwell Consulting (Twitter: @JezHop) – who has worked with barristers for Read More

2017-04-25T09:50:20+01:00April 25, 2017|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Web Sites|

To merge or not to merge? Merging property partnerships

Merging property partnerships – which are essentially people businesses – can be challenging. The topic of whether to merge or not to merge a small surveyors’ practice was discussed at a recent “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” (see https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline/Managing-_-Marketing-a-Profitable-Surveyors-Practice/5865/ for future dates and locations).  Reasons to merge Property Read More

2016-09-14T18:17:27+01:00September 14, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Law Society legal market research 2016 – The future of legal services

This legal market research report was published in January and is a cracking example of comprehensive SLEPT (or PEST) and market attractiveness analyses that will be valuable to any law firm strategic planning process. It’s a whopping 64 pages and it’s worth its weight in gold. It identifies five clusters Read More

2016-04-01T10:20:01+01:00April 1, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Book review: Managing online reputation – How to protect your company on social media by Charlie Pownall

I’ve just reviewed this book on "Managing online reputation" for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ It’s a timely book considering the increasing use of social media in professional service firms and the underlying fear that problems in this arena – whether of internal or external origin – could have a catastrophic Read More

2016-03-23T08:29:49+00:00March 23, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Social Media|

Opportunities and challenges in the legal market – presentation by Steve Billot of Duff and Phelps

I was fortunate to be at an event organised by Rix & Kay Solicitors http://www.rixandkay.co.uk/ a week ago where Steve Billot of Duff and Phelps http://www.duffandphelps.com/expertise/our_team/Pages/bio.aspx?itemid=546&list=People  gave a presentation on opportunities and challenges in the legal market. What struck me was that whilst law firms are playing in an increasingly Read More

2014-11-05T16:51:33+00:00November 5, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|
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