by David Baskerville | 23 Jul 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights, Selection
Regular readers of our blogs will be aware we have been vocal supporters of the Microsoft Cloud strategy and indeed introduced Microsoft Azure and 365 to our clients to replace on premise or ‘Early Cloud Multi-Tenanted Private Cloud’ solutions well before it became...
by Kevin Goosman | 20 Jul 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights
Have you ever heard the expression “Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?”. The basic idea is that if you are able to obtain some commodity (milk) cheaply and easily then you will be less inclined to pay for the commodity’s source (the cow). We can use this as an...
by David Baskerville | 30 Jun 2021 | Advisory, Finance, Implementation, Our Insights, Selection, Strategic Review
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...
by David Baskerville | 30 Jun 2021 | Implementation, Our Insights, Selection
We have all heard the saying that a consultant merely tells you the time using your own watch whilst charging a tidy sum for doing it. We would like to offer a contrary view – that often consultants are the oil that greases the gears that move a project...
by Cathy Kirby | 29 Jun 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights
I am thinking about renaming this series to the ‘The Bonsai Mysteries’. How frustrating it is to think that you are beginning to know how something works, only to find that it has suddenly malfunctioned (i.e. leaves dropping off) without good reason! My mini tree...
by Cathy Kirby | 24 Jun 2021 | Advisory, Featured, Implementation, Our Experience, Our Insights
We are very pleased and proud to have achieved Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus in the last couple of months, not only because it is a demonstration of how seriously we take our clients’ data security but also because it shows that we can ‘walk the walk’...
by David Baskerville | 15 Jun 2021 | Client Snapshots, Implementation, Our Experience, Our Insights, Selection, Selection
Download as a PDF Project type PMS selection Scope Streathers had looked at a number of practice management systems but lacked the internal knowledge and time to move the project forward. Baskerville Drummond was engaged to manage the selection project end-to-end,...
by Richard Wyatt | 31 May 2021 | Finance, Hi Finance, Our Insights
“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....
by Cathy Kirby | 19 May 2021 | Our Insights
The literal translation of Bonsai, from my rather limited research, means “planted in a container”. It didn’t occur to me when I bought it, but this is very representative of life over the last year! We are all in our containers, working from home, at the moment; we...
by Cathy Kirby | 17 May 2021 | Video
In conversation with new recruit Cathy Kirby on her career switch to consulting, thoughts on post-Covid IT strategies and the latest bonsai news. Watch previous episodes of Baskerville Drummond at Home Baskerville Drummond at Home – Episode 1...
by David Baskerville | 11 May 2021 | Our Insights
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by Nigel Stott | 6 May 2021 | Our Insights, TechWatch
In the latest TechWatch bulletin, we’ll continue our round-up of eye-catching technologies that have the potential to positively impact the legal sector. Non-Fungible Tokens There has been a lot of buzz in some circles around Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs over the last...
by Guest | 4 May 2021 | Our Insights, Out of Practice
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! Technology is everywhere, in everything that we do. We live in a digital, connected age where even the most mundane objects have core...
by David Baskerville | 28 Apr 2021 | Client Snapshots, Our Experience, Our Insights, Selection, Selection
Download as a PDF Project type PMS selection Scope Latimer Hinks was keen to run the project themselves, using Baskerville Drummond to provide governance around the selection criteria and process, and also to undertake the final project scoping and negotiations. In...
by Guest | 26 Apr 2021 | Advisory, Finance, Our Insights
David Abrahams FCA is the former Finance Director & COFA of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and more recently of Howes Percival LLP. He may be contacted at David@DRABS.co.uk or though your usual Baskerville Drummond Contact. In his recent post Richard...
by David Baskerville | 23 Apr 2021 | Advisory, Downloads, Our Insights, Practice Primers, Selection
Managed Service Providers Practice Primer Following our well-received overview of the Practice Management System marketplace, we’ve now undertaken a similar appraisal of the Managed Service Providers (MSPs) market – the current state of play, vendor...
by Richard Wyatt | 14 Apr 2021 | Hi Finance, Our Insights
“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...
by Guest | 29 Mar 2021 | Our Insights
Katchr’s Graham Moore has been working with law firms for over 30 years and has worked with hundreds of small and medium sized firms, helping them improve their businesses with technology. In this exclusive guest blog Graham shares some observations about the...
by Kevin Goosman | 29 Mar 2021 | Our Insights, Talking Points
You have probably heard the joke. You want to know the current time. A consultant will ask to borrow your watch to tell you the time, and then walk off with your watch! The clear implication is that a consultant will tell you what you already know – and charge you...
by David Baskerville | 29 Mar 2021 | Our Insights
I heard the expression ‘Zoomed out’ the other day to describe the feeling of exhaustion that back-to-back video calls can bring. The person also commented that they could not wait for the return to reality. Indeed, there is a growing excitement that we will be...
