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...
by David Baskerville | 18 Jan 2022 | Our Insights
When I was asked to pen a few words on the future of Practice Management Systems in 2022 and beyond I thought it would be an easy piece to write. It was only when I opened Word that it dawned on me the risk of ridicule that making bold sweeping statements can have...
by Nigel Stott | 11 Jan 2022 | Our Insights, TechWatch
We’re back with TechWatch, in which Nigel Stott casts his eye over the tech that’s coming our way in 2022. Hybrid working will continue to be a dominant theme in the year ahead and it is still very much Microsoft who are leading the way on this. We therefore focus in...
by David Baskerville | 5 Jan 2022 | Our Insights
The Baskerville Drummond 10th anniversary has had me thinking back to the early days – well, one day in particular when I somehow managed to enter a meeting with the potential of becoming managing partner only to leave it some hours later with a severance package. You...
by David Baskerville | 16 Dec 2021 | Our Insights
After our CSI-themed client event in November, we’ve gone all investigative – and we’ve detected some reasons to be cheerful! Despite another Greek letter running rampant, it still looks like Christmas won’t be cancelled this year There’s no way (fingers crossed and...
by David Baskerville | 13 Dec 2021 | Our Insights
In this Baskerville Drummond 10th anniversary special, we talk to David Baskerville about how the consulting gig all started, what the last ten years have been like and what the next ten might hold – plus we finally discover what happened to the mysterious Drummond!...
by Kevin Goosman | 8 Dec 2021 | Our Insights
It is hard to believe but it has been over five years since I joined David Baskerville at Baskerville Drummond. While we have grown in number to eight staff, I am pleased to say that I am the longest standing member of the team apart from David himself. I hope that I...
by David Baskerville | 6 Dec 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights, Selection
The words ‘PMS‘ and ‘Innovation’ are chalk and cheese. Let’s be honest, the lack of proactive innovation in the marketplace has been a challenge for several years. It is a space in which the solution deployed is typically pre-determined by the fee income/size of the...
by David Baskerville | 1 Dec 2021 | Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond will be marking the first of December not with the traditional Advent calendar opening but with a celebration of both a significant milestone and company development. The legal technology and finance consultancy is set for its 10th anniversary and...
by Nigel Stott | 15 Nov 2021 | Focus 365, Our Insights, Video
Here’s the second video 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...
by Richard Wyatt | 6 Nov 2021 | Advisory, Finance, Our Insights
Should we look at making our routine banking operations cheaper and slicker? Here are some opportunities. I was a full-time law firm FD until a couple of years ago. Now I help smaller firms by providing those services to them on a part-time basis. That has given me...
