by David Baskerville | 12 Jul 2019 | Advisory Insights, Our Insights
A ‘virtual’ IT Director is someone who is there for you as and when required without the need to hire someone into this position as a full-time employee with all of the associated costs. They can work for you as needed whether a few days a month, more regularly or...
by David Baskerville | 30 Apr 2019 | Networking Forum for Business & IT Leaders, Our Insights
Following on from the well-received first Business and IT Leaders Forum in October 2018, we are delighted to be able to announce our second forum which will take place on the Thursday, 13th June 2019 at the Shard in London. This forum will be run in conjunction with...
by David Baskerville | 27 Apr 2019 | Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond is proud to be one of the Founding Suppliers of Calico Legal Solutions Group. Calico is a unique collaboration of established and trusted suppliers to over 4,000 legal firms combined from niche practices to the high street, regional and national...
by David Baskerville | 21 Feb 2019 | Our Insights
Our colleague Kevin Goosman’s article on Law Firm IT spend was most timely, with a new budgeting cycle approaching. Getting the most out of your budget and controlling costs is fundamental, but given increasing pressure from your clients – and from partners alerted to...
by Kevin Goosman | 19 Feb 2019 | Our Insights
It’s a typical situation whether at home or at work. You find you need a particular skill or service, but you don’t know where to turn. Perhaps you have never had this need before or worse yet, you may have been let down by the supplier you used last time,...
by Kevin Goosman | 17 Feb 2019 | Our Insights
Having a strong IT capability is critical to all organisations, now more than ever. But like any budget category, you don’t want to overspend, and you need to invest effectively. For law firms, IT spend is likely to be the third largest expenditure category behind...
by David Baskerville | 18 Dec 2018 | Our Insights
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
by David Baskerville | 26 Nov 2018 | Our Insights
Introduction Most full-service law firms face the major challenge of having to reconcile the differing IT system requirements of their various practice areas with the limited resources – both IT and financial – available to the firm. On the other hand, niche firms...
by Kevin Goosman | 26 Nov 2018 | Advisory Insights, Our Insights
My previous article “Law Firm IT Spend – Getting it Right”, gave an overview of achieving the right level of IT spend by considering typical spending levels, discussing how to capture and analyse your current spend and giving suggestions for dealing with over-spend....
by David Baskerville | 25 Nov 2018 | Networking Forum for Business & IT Leaders, Our Insights
On 23rd October at the Shard in London we hosted our first – our very first – networking forum. But why do we want to add yet another event to the already overwhelming Legal Tech events calendar? We approached the event (and the whole idea of a networking forum) from...
by David Baskerville | 20 Nov 2018 | Advisory Insights, System and Vendor Selection Insights
I was recently invited to speak at The Law Society’s Law Management Section conference. My topic was “Getting value from IT investments”. Quantifying the return on investment from IT projects is a minefield many of us have tried to address, but while those efforts are...
by Kevin Goosman | 3 Oct 2018 | Advisory Insights, Our Insights
Having a strong IT capability is critical to all organisations, now more than ever. But like any budget category, you don’t want to overspend, and you need to invest effectively. For law firms, IT spend is likely to be the third largest expenditure category behind...
by David Baskerville | 10 Sep 2018 | Our Insights
O! it is pleasant with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please (…with thanks to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) As we sweltered and gasped through one of the hottest summers in memory, it would have required...
by David Baskerville | 6 Sep 2018 | Networking Forum for Business & IT Leaders
The first meeting of Baskerville Drummond’s Networking Forum for Business & IT Leaders will take place on the 23rd October 2018 (9:30am – 16:30pm). Hosted by our friends Protiviti at their London office in the Shard, will focus on Practice Management...
by Paul Hoffbrand | 29 Jul 2018 | Our Insights
What is Unstructured Data? Unstructured is defined as “not formally organised in a set or conventional pattern”. At home, most of us save documents to either our Documents folder on the PC or to cloud storage products like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We can...
by Kevin Goosman | 19 Jul 2018 | Our Insights
If you are still using an in-house telephone system based on older technologies, then you need to be aware that BT will be making it obsolete over the next few years. However, the need to upgrade is an opportunity to rethink your entire communications strategy and to...
by David Baskerville | 13 Jul 2018 | Our Insights
As we trot, canter and then hopefully gallop through all the “Cloud” buzzwords, we will try to provide some context for their logical progression, and then the why’s and how’s of their evolution (yes, Darwin’s law applies to technology as well!) Last time, we focused...
by David Baskerville | 30 Jun 2018 | Our Insights
Every couple of years and applying Moore’s Law, with increasing frequency one of the giants of the tech industry (or their marketing teams) come up with a sexy sounding buzzword or acronym. Very quickly, the latest buzzword will then burn a blazing trail through the...
by Kevin Goosman | 14 May 2018 | Our Insights
Law firms rarely change their PMS, doing so on average about every 15 to 20 years, and rightly so as the cost and effort involved is substantial. Furthermore, a firm can expect such a project to distract from the day-to-day operation of the firm and there will be...
by Kevin Goosman | 8 May 2018 | Our Insights
Mergers are increasingly common amongst law firms internationally and the UK is no exception. One source indicates that there were sixteen mergers affecting the UK top 100 firms in 2017 with a further four in the first quarter of 2018. There will of course have been...
