Why do some law firms seem happy to leave money on the table? Why is there not a greater emphasis on evidence-based knowledge management practice in the legal sector? Hélène Russell explores this issue and suggests some ways you...

Last year we saw solid real-terms growth for firms polled in the Law Society’s Law Management Section (LMS) Financial Benchmarking Survey 2019, which showed a median rise in income of 4.2% for participating firms. If you would like to read…

PEOPLE FIRST, DIGITAL SECOND! That was my key message to 250 delegates at Lawfest in Auckland last week. It was terrific to see so much interest in the impact of technology on the delivery of legal services and to hear…

Hélène Russell, legal knowledge and learning specialist, recently interviewed Sue Bramall for KM Insight, part of the ARK Group. They discussed Sue’s top tips for improving the branding, visibility and reputation of law firm knowledge teams so they can help…

Last week, in the 2nd instalment of blog series ‘Planning for the RFP storm’, Steph Hogg, Validatum Head of Procurement, Bid & Tender Consulting, talked about the types of questions firms should be asking themselves and the pre-work that...

Mention the words ‘strategy’ or ‘planning’ to many business leaders and managers and their eyes tend to glaze over. Many I speak to profess their organisation or firm has ‘done it’ but on closer inspection, in reality, they have...

In part 2 of this 3-part weekly series, Steph Hogg, Validatum Head of Procurement, Bid & Tender Consulting, will get into more detail on what that checklist looks like and why. Last week, the 3-part series began with what is…

Was Hercule Poirot a knowledge manager? This blog post by Hélène Russell explores how a much-loved character from the golden age of crime writing recommends that we deal with tacit and implicit knowledge, and advocates for the use of...

This is part 1 in a series of articles on managing client RFPs, written by Steph Hogg, Head of Procurement, Bid & Tender Consulting at Validatum. I read the BTI Consulting’s ‘mad clientist’ blog with interest this morning, about the…

A highly interactive one-day forum for law firm leaders hosted by Otterburn Legal Consulting. In May 2017 and again a year later, Andrew Otterburn and Simon Tupman ran highly successful one-day forums for law firm leaders in London. They will…