Welcome to the latest edition of Briefed, a handy digest of all the recently published articles, news and blogs from Baskerville Drummond.
Covid Collection
As we sit here waiting – hoping – for a summer holiday, there’s no doubt that the last couple of months have been supremely challenging - but also very interesting. We’ve rounded up some of the best of our coronavirus content.
Risk management and contingency planning are standard for any IT project. And in mid-2019, the last weekend in April 2020 was thoroughly evaluated as a practical go-live date for a new PMS and hosted platform. What could go wrong?
Perhaps your firm’s size has never warranted a full-time finance director. Or maybe anticipated changes to our way of working may call time on established full-time positions. But that leaves a potentially risky advisory gap. Richard Wyatt explains how a virtual finance director could be the best way to fill it.
Coronavirus may have applied particular pressure recently but Kevin Goosman argues that it always pays to evaluate your IT function regularly to ensure that it continues to perform in an optimum way.
If you are a partner looking to retire or a successor in waiting, then Richard Wyatt’s overview of how to make a success of succession planning is an essential read.
If we had a pound for every article that has ever been written about CRM in legal, we would be well on our way to Sunseeker’s finest by now. David Baskerville cuts to the chase.
How law firms coped with lockdown and suggestions for the back to work To-do lists – just a couple of the discussion topics in this new Zoom interview with David Baskerville. We’ll forgive him the Northampton Saints rugby shirt. Just.