by Beccy Scobell | 30 Sep 2022 | Our Insights
Today I find myself reflecting on my first 3-months as a consultant. I’m thinking about how much I have grown in my knowledge of systems, my self-confidence, and how important IT Training is! As an in-house trainer for over a decade, my decision to become a...
by Guest | 30 Aug 2022 | Our Insights
Save the date – Roundtable webinar Mitigo and Cyber Security – Wednesday 14 September @ 12.30 This webinar is a little different to previous ones as our guests, the team from Mitigo (leading cyber security specialists), will be walking us through the...
by David Baskerville | 27 Jul 2022 | Our Insights
As part of British Wills and Probate Awards sponsor Exizent’s new Judges Insight series, David Baskerville, Director & Lead Consultant, Baskerville Drummond LLP, discusses the challenges he faces in encouraging technology adoption across legal services,...
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 | 12 Jul 2022 | Our Insights
As LawNet’s preferred IT consultancy, there was no way that we would miss taking up our place at this year’s LawNet Conference at the Celtic Manor. Despite its enforced absence due to the pandemic, the event returned with a real bang, firing on all cylinders with its...
by Guest | 29 Jun 2022 | Our Insights
Briefed – Issue 8 Welcome to the latest edition of Briefed, a handy digest of all the recently published articles, news and blogs from Baskerville Drummond. Read Briefed Issue 8 Why not read our other issues of Briefed? Briefed – Issue 8 Briefed – Issue 7...
by David Baskerville | 23 Jun 2022 | Our Insights
The legal IT press seems to be full of news of Supplier A purchasing Supplier B or Supplier C receiving more funding via a funding cycle. I’m not normally one for commenting on such things publicly but the other week I saw a post on LinkedIn from an employee of a...
by David Baskerville | 23 Jun 2022 | Our Experience, Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond is delighted to announced that it has retained its Band 1 rating in the 2022 edition of Chambers and Partners’ LawTech Consulting guide. In common with all Chambers’ guides and directories, this is an independent evaluation of market players, with...
by Guest | 21 Jun 2022 | Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond has announced the addition of Beccy Scobell to its consulting team. Beccy is set to combine both training and junior consulting roles, as Baskerville Drummond looks to extend the range of practical help offered, to enable firms to get more out of...
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 Nigel Stott | 29 Mar 2022 | Our Insights
“I’ve found a problem with the new system!”, the Partner said to me in a matter of fact but not entirely disappointed way before explaining the issue he had found with our new time recording system. As we went through the detail of his discovery; he informed me he’d...
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...
by David Baskerville | 27 Feb 2022 | Advisory, Advisory, Our Experience, Our Insights, Selection
Download as a PDF Project type IT Supplier Relationship Consultancy Scope Endeavour was just over halfway through a 3-year contact with its managed service provider (MSP) but the firm did not feel it was receiving an ideal level of service and support, particularly in...
by Richard Wyatt | 24 Feb 2022 | Advisory, Finance, Making law firms more profitable, Our Insights
This is the second in a little series of short articles, where we are looking at what is the best way to make law firms more profitable. In the previous article, we mentioned that there are three main ways to increase profitability. They are: Increase fee earner...
by Richard Wyatt | 17 Feb 2022 | Advisory, Finance, Making law firms more profitable, Our Insights
It’s a given that law firms would like to be more profitable. But how do we become more profitable? In the following series of articles, I shall point you to the key issues that you need to address to make your firm more profitable. What are our options? Luckily the...
by Nigel Stott | 14 Feb 2022 | Focus 365, Our Insights, Video
We wrap up our Focus 365 series with some considerations to take away around Microsoft 365 governance and adoption. For example, how will you encourage lawyers to move away from the tools they have used for years and adopt Microsoft 365 toolsets instead? Likewise, how...
by David Baskerville | 27 Jan 2022 | Our Insights
Briefed – Issue 7 Welcome to the latest edition of Briefed, a handy digest of all the recently published articles, news and blogs from Baskerville Drummond. Read Briefed Issue 7 Why not read our other issues of Briefed? Briefed – Issue 7 Briefed – Issue 6...
by Nigel Stott | 18 Jan 2022 | Focus 365, Our Insights, Video
Here’s the third in our new series presented by Nigel Stott that takes a more in-depth look at key aspects of M365 to help law firms learn and adopt with more confidence. Nigel’s done the learning, so you don’t have to, with the onus on pragmatic guidance and...
