by Guest | 9 Jan 2024 | Articles, Grahame Weir, Review
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...
by Cathy Kirby | 20 Oct 2023 | Articles, Cathy Kirby, Review, Support
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...
by David Baskerville | 5 Sep 2023 | Articles, Cathy Kirby, David Baskerville, Implement, Review, Select
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...
by Richard Wyatt | 25 Jul 2023 | Articles, Finance, Our Experience, Our Insights, Review, Richard Wyatt
The last Budget increased the Corporation Tax rates for those law firms that are set up as Companies. It also reduced the Dividend Allowance, which gave some income tax free to shareholders. If your firm is a Company, it may therefore be costing you a lot of money...
by Richard Wyatt | 12 Dec 2022 | Articles, Finance, Our Insights, Review, Richard Wyatt
Many Managing Partners get exasperated by their firm’s inability to get away from being cash-strapped, despite seeming to make decent profits, whether annually or month-by-month. There is a constant worry about paying the salaries and other major commitments, such as...
by Richard Wyatt | 9 Oct 2022 | Articles, Finance, Our Insights, Review, Richard Wyatt
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...