Gain the Legal Edge: Managing Teams in Law Firms

The transition from being a fee earner to a leadership role in a law firm is a significant leap that demands a unique set of skills. In this article, Michelle Howard, a skilled leadership and marketing consultant with extensive...

Read more

Why it’s time now to embrace Low/No-Code Technology & AI

The technologies available to lawyers are evolving remarkably quickly. Traditional case and practice management systems are being replaced by intelligent automation and low/no-code platforms. These tools are transforming how lawyers work – and the pace of change is accelerating....

Read more

Pricing – Easy, isn’t it – PART 2

In Part 1 we looked at some common failings of firms to maximise the return, by no means
exclusively in financial terms, from their investment in pricing training. Let’s remind ourselves of the four categories of firm I rather crudely…

Read more

Pricing – Easy, isn’t it – PART 1

Common Failings in Pricing Training Investment I’ve been training lawyers and accountants in value pricing for almost a decade now. I’ve worked with 100 or so firms, from niche sole practitioner up to top 100 (law)/top 40 (accountancy). Each firm…

Read more

Key issues for the legal sector in 2022 – Nigel Haddon – The Law Chat Series – 22 February 2022

The legal sector is globally facing challenges around recruitment and retention, hybrid working, sustainability, culture, pricing, governance and consolidation. During this Law Chat, leading UK law management consultant Nigel Haddon will share his perspectives. You can watch the full episode…

Read more

Learning from the past

Should knowledge workers and leaders play poker? In this article Helene Russell, knowledge, learning and innovation specialist, considers the “description experience gap” and whether learning poker can help. I recently listened to “Future You”, part of this series about thinking …

Read more

Vista – the Autumn 2021 Collection – views from eight of our international law firm consultants

Welcome to the Autumn edition of VISTA, a collection of views from members of this global network of law firm consultants. We have been analysing the longer-term effects of the pandemic on law firms across the world, studying the gains…

Read more

Key issues for the legal sector in 2022 – Monique Rhodes – The Law Chat Series – 23 November 2021

During this instalment of The Law Chat series, hosted by Simon Tupman, happiness expert Monique Rhodes will chat about the reasons why stress, anxiety and depression are on the rise and what you can do about it. You can watch…

Read more

Lunch n learns for virtual teams: a dozen ideas (first published on Knowledge for Lawyers)

A common way for law firms to train their teams is the “lunch n learn” lecture, but with so many firms permanently switching to virtual or hybrid teams, how can we ensure that our virtual attendees find them compelling...

Read more

Legal pricing: “There are a lot of tricks I knows…” (first published on the Validatum website, 13 November 2021)

Inspired by lyrics from the musical Les Miserables (Master of The House), Richard Burcher, legal pricing expert from Validatum discusses the common practice of charging for disbursements or extras on top of a bill. For many years it has been…

Read more