by David Baskerville | 23 Jan 2023 | Advisory, Our Insights, Selection
I can’t believe it’s three years ago that I wrote my article and subsequent handout on vendor / supplier management but it is a subject which is still high in my mind. In our work as retained advisors a lot of our time goes into managing other suppliers on...
by David Baskerville | 25 Jul 2022 | Advisory, Our Insights
Save the date – Roundtable webinar Mimecast and Cyber Security – Tuesday 9 August @ 11am On 9 August Baskerville Drummond will be holding the latest in our series of roundtable webinars. This is where we host our clients and a chosen technology provider in...
by Beccy Scobell | 18 Jul 2022 | Advisory, Our Insights
When a new software application is rolled out to a firm, training is needed. Everyone knows and agrees that some sort of training is required, but depending on who you ask, the next questions will have different answers: When should training be included in the...
by Guest | 11 Apr 2022 | Advisory, Michelle Howard, Our Insights
Future Focussed In the series of articles entitled, ‘Making law firms more profitable’ Richard Wyatt looks at three ways in which law firms can become more profitable. They are to: Increase fee earner numbers Increase profitability per fee earner Reduce overheads...
by Richard Wyatt | 10 Mar 2022 | Advisory, Finance, Making law firms more profitable, Our Insights
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...
by Richard Wyatt | 3 Mar 2022 | Advisory, Advisory, Finance, Finance, Making law firms more profitable, Our Experience, Our Insights
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...
