All Leadership and Management articles – Page 40
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FeatureMuch 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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FeatureAll 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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FeatureCome 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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FeatureA 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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FeatureFirst impression
What does it take to manage a small firm successfully? Sally Azarmi, the new chair of the small firms committee, looks at how the Small Firms Division supported its members in its first year, and outlines its plans for 2016.
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FeatureThe 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
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FeatureConversion rate
Do you know which of your firm’s business development activities translate into the most high quality enquiries? How well do you convert those enquiries into instructions? Sue Bramall provides a beginner’s guide to maximising conversion
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FeatureFund of information
Lending to law firms has changed significantly in recent years, from the old traditional funding market, to a ‘new norm’ with a more sophisticated range of products to suit different parts of the sector. Barry Wilkinson investigates.
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FeatureCloud of suspicion
The legal sector is clearly sceptical about cloud services – only 15 per cent of law firms currently use the technology. But, says Nigel Wright, the rest are missing out on real benefits to their business, people and clients.
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OpinionGet with the programme
Law Management Section chair Robert Banner provides an update on the Section’s work and upcoming events
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FeatureWhy 2015 was the tipping point for cybersecurity
Paul Gribbon explains why 2015 was a watershed year for cybersecurity
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FeatureNew corporate membership option
Robert Banner, chair of the Law Management Section committee, outlines a key development in the membership of the Law Managment Section
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FeatureGrowing your bottom line in 2016: Is LinkedIn worth YOUR time? Part 1
Emily Miller and Susan Kench explain how LinkedIn can help smaller law firms to generate and support the relationships that grow their client base
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FeatureLessons of 2015 and tips for 2016
Members of the Law Management Section share what they have learned in 2015 and their tips for the year ahead
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FeatureTurn it around
As managing partner of Darbys, Simon McCrum reversed the fortunes of the struggling business and turned it into the fastest growing top-200 law firm in the country. Here, he outlines some key lessons for making change effectively in your firm
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FeatureBalancing the books
In our round-up of recent publications on law firm performance, Barry Wilkinson outlines the findings of a survey on the cause of law firm failures in the US, and Paul Bennett reviews a new title on financial management
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FeatureBest-laid plans
In the third of his series on strategic planning for a new firm, Steven Petty looks at the challenges of implementing a plan in practice.
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FeatureEmergency exit
With firms feeling increasingly squeezed from all sides, it may seem tempting to divest yourself of underperforming practice areas. But getting it wrong could just make things worse. Grania Langdon-Down looks at the dos and don’ts