Do you need a CEO?
02-May-2011
By Anne Harnetty: It is frequently recognised that strategic management skills are required, particularly where the Managing Partner does not wish to stand again and so return to client matters, and where firms have lost the fee earning capability that a Managing Partner can bring. A Chief Executive can help evolve a business strategy and can relieve them of tedious administrative responsibilities and routine tasks.
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How to manage risk
01-Mar-2010
By Mike Gorick Practice Manager Gregory Rowcliffe Milners. Fee earners want autonomy, but law firms want managed risk. How can they align risk and compliance into a workflow process? There is potentially an immediate conflict when squaring the issue of risk management with the aspirations of many fee-earners, who naturally want to practise good law with a fair degree of autonomy. Originally published in the Law Gazette
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Forward Thinking
11-Sep-2009
This is a report specially commissioned by Barclays Bank, the first in-depth survey of forward thinking in UK business, to offer organisations a competitive edge by remaining relevant in today's and tomorrow's market place.
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Time Recording
23-Jul-2007
By Karl Wingfield, Chief Operating Officer, BP Collins Solicitors. Depending on who you listen to, time recording is an important determinant of the value of work done for a client, or, colloquially, "time expands to fill the fee available", and is of no value to the client. What end of the spectrum do you sit at, or are you somewhere in between?
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Working for a US Firm
12-Sep-2007
By Tony Bash. An insider's view on the differences of working for a US firm compared to a UK firm.
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How are you valued
06-May-2008
By Anne Harnetty. How many law firms really regard these managers as a critical part of the business? Do they in fact only look at this from the perspective of hiring legal talent and the business support teams are still considered as little more than a cost?