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Baskerville Drummond Welcomes Martin Batt as a Legal Technology Training Consultant
Martin joins Baskerville Drummond with extensive experience supporting law firms through the implementation, optimisation, and adoption of legal technology. With over eight years working within a Top 50 UK law firm, he brings a strong, practical understanding of how technology, process, and people intersect in a regulated legal environment.
Creating an IT Strategy for a Law Firm
In a fast-evolving legal landscape, many firms still rely on ad hoc IT decisions. This guide explains how to build a structured IT strategy that supports your business goals, boosts efficiency, and prepares your firm for future success.
Baskerville Drummond Welcomes Matthew Riches as New IT Consultant
With a wealth of experience and expertise in strategic and operational projects within the Legal sphere, Matthew joins the Baskerville Drummond team to support its continued growth and further broaden its mission to help law firms navigate the complex world of technological efficiency.
The AI machine
Have you noticed how the AI gears are shifting in the machine of legal practice? We are rapidly moving from a position of fear of AI and confusion around how it can or should be used.
How can you assess how secure your M365 environment is?
Introduction Law firms depend on their IT infrastructure to provide a safe and secure environment in which to perform work for their clients. With the growing trend of migrating to Microsoft 365 (MS365) / Azure to provide these services online, there is an assumption...
Cybercrime prevention – differences in the approach for Personal Injury teams
Cybercrime comes in many different forms and as new attacks surface, so do new anti-cybercrime measures – an exponential trajectory for both cause and effect. Of course, the application of AI / machine learning brings a new range of possibilities and we anticipate...
IT Procurement in law firms
On 27th June we delivered a CPD event for the Law Society of Northern Ireland. The below article is a summary of the session delivered on the day and will cover: Why is procurement so important? Why do projects fail? Types of procurement How to approach procurement...
Should your law firm company convert to an LLP?
If your firm is a Company, it may therefore be costing you a lot of money and may be time to change to a Limited Liability Partnership, (LLP).
Our firm is profitable but…
Many Managing Partners get exasperated by their firm’s inability to get away from being cash-strapped, despite seeming to make decent profits…
The single most important factor in making law firms profitable
In my time advising and helping manage law firms, I have twice been asked the question: “What is the single most important factor in making law firms profitable”? Both times I was asked by a firm’s Managing Partner, so it was clearly important to them and equally...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 4: Real life profit improvements
This is the last of this mini-series on law firm profitability and how to effect serious improvements in Net Profit. The previous articles illustrated that there was only one sound way to improve law firm profitability, which is to improve fee earner productivity. You...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 3: The Fool’s Errand
So far in this mini-series, we have looked at two ways of increasing law firm profits. Firstly, by only increasing fee earner numbers, and Secondly by making fee-earning staff more productive, i.e., they produce more Income, per fee earner, per annum. We concluded...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 2: Increasing Fee Earner Profitability
This is the second in a little series of short articles, where we are looking at what is the best way to make law firms more profitable. In the previous article, we mentioned that there are three main ways to increase profitability. They are: Increase fee earner...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 1: What are our options?
It’s a given that law firms would like to be more profitable. But how do we become more profitable? In the following series of articles, I shall point you to the key issues that you need to address to make your firm more profitable.What are our options? Luckily the...
Banking Services – The law firm FD’s and their advisors’ opportunities
Should we look at making our routine banking operations cheaper and slicker? Here are some opportunities. I was a full-time law firm FD until a couple of years ago. Now I help smaller firms by providing those services to them on a part-time basis. That has given me...
Baskerville Drummond in elite Band 1 of Chambers new guide
Baskerville Drummond is delighted to announced that it has been given a Band 1 rating in Chambers and Partners’ new LawTech Consulting guide. In common with all Chambers’ guides and directories, this is an independent evaluation of market players, with research...
Hi, Finance – May
“Our income is not the same as our fees. Is that wrong?” The problem Most law firms and managers within those firms, such as Department or Team Heads, tend to monitor performance by looking at the fees billed by each fee earner/team/department, or the firm overall....
The fresh face of IT
For the love of tech
For any of you that are in an IT team, this is a tough one isn’t it? Enough said – you know what I mean!
Hi, Finance – April
“I can see from the Management Accounts that I need my fee earners to record more time. Nearly all of them are under target for the Year-to-Date. I am sure they are busy enough, but they are just not getting the time down on the system. No matter how many times I talk...
Changing the attitude to change
Cathy Kirby: Out of Practice After three decades in practice, Cathy Kirby has joined Baskerville Drummond as a consultant, to share a lifetime of learning and hard-won experience across the law firm technology and business strategy space. In this series of articles,...
Hi, Finance – March 2021
“I don’t understand why my firm is profitable and yet we always seem to be up against it with the Bank. We don’t want to be putting in more capital this year so what can we do now to get a grip on this?” Ultimately all a firm’s cash is generated from its fee income in...
Hi, Finance – February 2021
“Our issue is, very simply, that we should be making more money than we are, given what I see going on within the business. How do I turn this around?” This problem, or variations of it, is something that I hear almost every week. It goes something along the lines of...
The “R” Rate for law firm growth
Since March 2020, we have become familiar with the “R” rate, which tells us whether the rate of infection for Covid-19 is increasing or decreasing. When “R” is greater than one, each infected person is infecting at least on other person and the rate of infection...
Virtual Part-time FD – the best of everything
In many firms a Finance Director is what you need and they are the people who help you through that stuff – but they can be expensive if you have a full-time one and what do you do with a FD when they aren’t doing high-grade FD stuff?
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