All Leadership and Management articles – Page 31
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Taking shape
Patricia Kinahan and Andrew Allen discuss the relative merits of an LLP and a limited company – or both – as trading structures for law firms, and how to make the best decision for your business
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Silver service
Clients are rarely able to judge you on how well you know the law, but they can judge you on how well you look after them: your opening hours, how your reception looks, the clarity of your communications. Kerry Underwood offers his tips for top-quality client service
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Small wonder
How can smaller law firms compete in today’s challenging market? Focus, innovate, collaborate and dare to be different, according to Edward O’Rourke
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The march of progress
Recruiting and retaining the best lawyers and identifying the partners of tomorrow is vital for all legal businesses. Ian Hopkins describes how he approached the issue when he took on the chief executive role in an established firm
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Opinion
An unqualified success
Law Management Section chair Robert Banner rounds up the Section’s annual conference in April
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Book review: LinkedIn for Lawyers – Developing a Profile to Grow Your Practice
Can LinkedIn help lawyers improve their practice in an efficient and cost effective way, or is it a time-consuming luxury? Barry Wilkinson reviews LinkedIn for Lawyers - Developing a Profile to Grow Your Practice (by Emily Miller and Kirsten Hodgson) and offers his verdict
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Creating a ‘great place to work’: the key to talent attraction and retention
Creating ‘a great place to work’ is a key element of talent attraction and retention. Julie Harrison explains the challenges and provides a taster of her session at the LMS annual conference on 27 April
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The 007 approach to cyber-attack
Law firms have now largely woken up to the dangers of cybercrime, but even firms that have done their utmost to secure their IT systems are vulnerable to a new threat, explains Stuart Poole-Robb
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Managing absence in law firms
Joanne Perry explains the main causes of absence and provides a taster of her session at the LMS HR forum on 16 March
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News
Buy your copy of the Financial Benchmarking Survey 2016
Widely regarded as the leading annual health check for mid-sized firms, the LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey’s 16th year brings together the results of 200 firms to provide a comprehensive analysis of their comparable financial health.
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Growing your bottom line in 2016: Is LinkedIn worth YOUR time? Part 2
In part 2 of their guide to using LinkedIn as a business tool, Emily Miller and Susan Kench explain how to build and engage with your network
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How to attract and retain the best talent for your firm
Deborah Gray explains where firms go wrong in recruitment and provides a taster of her session at the LMS HR forum on 16 March
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How do you do?
The Law Management Section’s 2016 Financial Benchmarking Survey suggests a generally positive outlook, but, warns Andy Harris, some firms may be slipping back into bad habits
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Full steam ahead
A new Law Society report predicts what the future might look like for the legal sector. Three members of the Law Management Section committee outline their own approaches to future-proofing your firm in an uncertain market
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Much obliged
Outcomes-focused regulation was intended to offer firms greater flexibility, but many now cite compliance obligations as a significant burden. Leading commentators and practitioners talk to Lucy Trevelyan about trends in regulation, and offer their top tips for effective compliance.
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Come back fighting
Five years ago, ELS Legal was hit by scandal: one of its partners had defrauded a client of millions of pounds. Partner Richard Spector talks to Duncan Wood about the firm’s comeback, and how it has innovated to succeed.
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All the answers
Tom Wagstaff talks about the story behind his firm’s award-winning knowledge management system and shares his top 10 tips for delivering a successful knowledge management project
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A flying start
What are your new year’s resolutions for your business in 2016? Top of the list should be analysing and managing profitability, according to John Playfair . He provides his top five tips for improving law firm profits, to ensure you realise your full potential
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The generation game
Today’s law firms have up to five different generations in their workplace, each with its own values, motivations, needs and wants. And traditional law firm management needs to change to accommodate a multigenerational workforce, says Rachel Brushfield