by Sarah Levick | 3 Aug 2020 | Video
In a new video series, we’ll be talking to Baskerville Drummond consultants on a whole range of topics over the weeks and months to come. In episode 4, we have a new face for you – Mr Finance, Richard Wyatt. Richard runs us through the range of business and...
by Sarah Levick | 18 Jul 2020 | Video
In a new video series, we’ll be talking to Baskerville Drummond consultants on a whole range of topics over the weeks and months to come. In episode 3, we have brought David Baskerville, Kevin Goosman and Nigel Stott together for a PMS special. We talk to them about...
by Sam Saunders | 15 Jul 2020 | Drafts
In the next instalment of our Microsoft 365 articles, we talk about the security features available as part of your subscription I remember a time where law firms were a little suspicious of the “cloud”. How could entrusting your data to a third party be more secure...
by David Baskerville | 2 Jul 2020 | Advisory, Implementation, Our Insights, Selection
“In professional services if you aren’t addressing technology you really don’t have a future”. A quote by KPMG at one of the last legal technology events I attended a lifetime ago…but it clearly stuck in my mind. And whilst the more successful professional services...
by Sarah Levick | 25 Jun 2020 | Video
In a new video series, we’ll be talking to Baskerville Drummond consultants on a whole range of topics over the weeks and months to come. David Baskerville is back answering questions from Sarah Levick, this time on all things Baskerville Drummond – why they came...
by Nigel Stott | 22 Jun 2020 | Our Insights, Selection
In the second part of the series on Microsoft 365, we take a closer look at the collaboration tools available on the platform. In the current situation, with workforces spread geographically whilst working from their homes, the ability to effectively collaborate...
by David Baskerville | 17 Jun 2020 | Implementation, Our Insights, Strategic Review
Over the last five to ten years, it has become normal to follow a cloud-first IT Strategy. This is particularly the case when considering telephone systems. The promise of a more robust platform on a ‘pay per user per month’ basis makes compelling business sense for...
by Sarah Levick | 6 Jun 2020 | Video
In a new video series, we’ll be talking to Baskerville Drummond consultants on a whole range of topics over the weeks and months to come. First in Sarah Levick’s hot seat is David Baskerville discussing some of his key takeaways from the recent lockdown period...
by Richard Wyatt | 30 May 2020 | Finance, Our Insights
When business slows down or stops and the cash correspondingly also slows down, it is natural – and right – to reduce expenditure. The manager’s job is to manage, not be overtaken by events by failing to respond. Action should certainly be taken and some idea of the...
by Richard Wyatt | 28 May 2020 | Finance, Our Insights
Law firms have a problem. There are too many owners that want to retire and too few people that are interested in taking over their business or share of their business and paying them out, so that they can do so. If you are a partner or owner looking to retire soon,...
by Richard Wyatt | 28 May 2020 | Advisory, Finance, Our Insights
Over the last 20 years or so, a steady revolution has been taking place in the employment market, which has led to fewer firms employing full-time specialists to lead their business support roles. IT, HR, facilities, business development, accounting, procurement and...
by Nigel Stott | 21 May 2020 | Advisory, Implementation, Our Insights
I sit here and gaze out into my back garden through the study window, watching the bright blue-sky fade on what has been a glorious warm spring day. In my small study, I have been tapping away at my keyboard catching up on all manner of work across a myriad of...
by Nigel Stott | 20 May 2020 | Our Insights, Selection
In the first blog of a four-part series, we will take a detailed look at Microsoft 365 and what it has to offer for law firms. In 2011, Microsoft announced their Office 365 cloud-based product suite (as it was known then – it was only in April 2020 that Office...
by Kevin Goosman | 20 May 2020 | Advisory, Implementation, Our Experience, Selection, Strategic Review
Project type: Strategy development; project management; supplier selection for new hosted environment and practice management system; lockdown go-live Scope The project began in December 2018. At that time, Gotelee took its hosted IT environment and its...
by David Baskerville | 20 May 2020 | Advisory, Our Insights, Selection, Strategic Review
As we see an ever-increasing stream of high-profile data breaches and regulatory fines Sean O’Brien, Director DVV Solutions, takes a look at one of the most common weak links in law firms’ data security and GDPR compliance programs – the risks posed by third parties...
by David Baskerville | 7 May 2020 | Implementation, Our Insights, Selection
Mention CRM and you’ll get an eye-roll from me. Why? Because most firms have had a play at this holy grail and only succeeded in spending money on overhyped – and unlikely ever to deliver – technology-focused solutions rather than grasping the nettle of what CRM...
by Kevin Goosman | 6 May 2020 | Finance, Implementation, Our Insights, Strategic Review
Kevin Goosman, Associate at Baskerville Drummond Consulting Ltd, offers a perspective on the benefits of undertaking an independent IT review. It’s good practice to monitor and review all aspects of your business. But with IT change happening so quickly and technology...
by Paul Hoffbrand | 5 May 2020 | Advisory, Our Insights
Paul was interviewed by NetDocuments for this article which was originally published by Calico Paul Hoffbrand is a legal tech veteran. We talk to him about cloud and tech trends from the SME law firm viewpoint. Of course, technology has changed a great deal since his...
by David Baskerville | 4 May 2020 | Advisory, Implementation, Our Insights, Selection
The following article is based on an interview I did for Extech Cloud back in August 2019. In this COVID-19 world it strikes me even more that the barriers of not wanting to change the status quo, feeling that staff need to be controlled and the fear of change have...
by David Baskerville | 1 May 2020 | Advisory, Our Insights, Selection
In 2017 Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet brought the challenge of our use of plastics to mainstream conscientiousness. Whilst most people were aware that use of one-use plastic was bad it was only the visualisation of the problems which caused a wide-spread desire...
