by Guest | 24 Oct 2021 | Advisory, Breakdowns, Our Insights
We’re delighted to bring you the first in our BreakDown series. BreakDowns are quick, easy reads that break down a subject so the audience can get up to speed with it. The aim is to stick to the essentials and avoid too much complex detail and jargon so that the...
by Nigel Stott | 24 Oct 2021 | Focus 365, Our Insights, Video
Introducing a new series of videos presented by Nigel Stott that take 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 practical...
by Nigel Stott | 27 Sep 2021 | Our Insights, TechWatch
It may be fair to say that reports of the office’s demise over the past year have been exaggerated. Rather than abandoning them entirely, many firms will develop their working spaces to meet the demands of a hybrid workforce that wants choice and flexibility as to...
by David Baskerville | 16 Sep 2021 | Implementation, Our Insights, Selection
Remember a few short years ago in 2015 when Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be the last ever version of Windows and from that point on the Operating System would be a stable, evergreen platform? Well, that changed on 24th June this year when Microsoft...
by Guest | 13 Sep 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights, Our People
Baskerville Drummond has announced that long-standing Kindleworth associate Andrew Anderson is joining the team in the role of Virtual IT Service Manager (VITSM). Earlier this year Anthony Crammer came in as the consulting firm’s first VITSM and increasing client...
by David Baskerville | 23 Aug 2021 | Advisory, Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond will be delivering a number of training sessions this winter in association with MBL, one of the country’s leading providers of CPD training. While all sitting in the category of practice management, the eight topics cover a range of issues,...
by Guest | 1 Aug 2021 | Client Snapshots, Our Experience, Our Insights, Selection, Selection
Download as a PDF Project type PMS selection Scope Boutique firm Laura Devine Immigration (LDI) engaged Baskerville Drummond initially to run its PMS selection process to give the firm absolute confidence in their final decision, needing certainty in terms of both...
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...
