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Basic cyber security questions for your IT Advisors
A series covering simple questions that you can ask your IT Team/Managed Service Provider (MSP) to help improve security. For many law firms, dealing with cyber prevention can be mind boggling in its complexity. ‘Attack surfaces’, ‘threat actors’, ‘dark web’ – all...
Baskerville Drummond in elite Band 1 of Chambers new guide
Baskerville Drummond is delighted to announced that it has been given a Band 1 rating in Chambers and Partners’ new LawTech Consulting guide. In common with all Chambers’ guides and directories, this is an independent evaluation of market players, with research...
What Is It Like to Transition from An Internal IT Manager to An IT Consultant
Transitioning from an internal IT manager to an IT consultant can be a significant but exciting change in career path. While both roles involve managing technology, the responsibilities and challenges are quite different.
Demystifying DMARC
With email being the primary method of communication for businesses, it is surprising how little the underlying architecture has changed, particularly with regard to security.
Riding the Platform Dragon
Regular readers of our blogs will be aware we have been vocal supporters of the Microsoft Cloud strategy and indeed introduced Microsoft Azure and 365 to our clients to replace on premise or ‘Early Cloud Multi-Tenanted Private Cloud’ solutions well before it became...
Our firm is profitable but…
Many Managing Partners get exasperated by their firm’s inability to get away from being cash-strapped, despite seeming to make decent profits…
Mobilising your IT strategy through your people – Roundtable webinar | Mon 7 November
Register now for our latest roundtable webinar. Join us for Mobilising your IT strategy through your people on Monday 7 November 2022 between 12.30-2pm.
Mimecast & Cyber Security Roundtable Webinar – Tue 9 Aug
Join us on 9th August for the latest in our series of roundtable webinars.
Ways training can help lead to a successful rollout of an IT System
When a new software application is rolled out to a firm, training is needed. Everyone knows and agrees that some sort of training is required, but depending on who you ask, the next questions will have different answers: When should training be included in the...
Guest blog: Increasing Productivity in law firms…
Future Focussed In the series of articles entitled, ‘Making law firms more profitable’ Richard Wyatt looks at three ways in which law firms can become more profitable. They are to: Increase fee earner numbers Increase profitability per fee earner Reduce overheads...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 4: Real life profit improvements
This is the last of this mini-series on law firm profitability and how to effect serious improvements in Net Profit. The previous articles illustrated that there was only one sound way to improve law firm profitability, which is to improve fee earner productivity. You...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 3: The Fool’s Errand
So far in this mini-series, we have looked at two ways of increasing law firm profits. Firstly, by only increasing fee earner numbers, and Secondly by making fee-earning staff more productive, i.e., they produce more Income, per fee earner, per annum. We concluded...
Client Snapshot: Endeavour Partnership
Endeavour was just over halfway through a 3-year contact with its managed service provider (MSP) but the firm did not feel it was receiving an ideal level of service and support, particularly in respect of on-site assistance, even before the pandemic broke.
Making law firms more profitable – Part 2: Increasing Fee Earner Profitability
This is the second in a little series of short articles, where we are looking at what is the best way to make law firms more profitable. In the previous article, we mentioned that there are three main ways to increase profitability. They are: Increase fee earner...
Making law firms more profitable – Part 1: What are our options?
It’s a given that law firms would like to be more profitable. But how do we become more profitable? In the following series of articles, I shall point you to the key issues that you need to address to make your firm more profitable.What are our options? Luckily the...
The current state of the practice management systems industry
The words ‘PMS‘ and ‘Innovation’ are chalk and cheese. Let’s be honest, the lack of proactive innovation in the marketplace has been a challenge for several years.
Banking Services – The law firm FD’s and their advisors’ opportunities
Should we look at making our routine banking operations cheaper and slicker? Here are some opportunities. I was a full-time law firm FD until a couple of years ago. Now I help smaller firms by providing those services to them on a part-time basis. That has given me...
Cyber Security Breakdown
We’re delighted to bring you the first in our BreakDown series. BreakDowns are quick, easy reads that break down a subject so the audience can get up to speed with it. The aim is to stick to the essentials and avoid too much complex detail and jargon so that the...
Baskerville Drummond & MBL in winter training push
Baskerville Drummond will be delivering a number of training sessions this winter in association with MBL, one of the country’s leading providers of CPD training.
Clouds v Cows – Cloud Computing Explained
Have you ever heard the expression “Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?”. The basic idea is that if you are able to obtain some commodity (milk) cheaply and easily then you will be less inclined to pay for the commodity’s source (the cow).
The Bonsai Diaries episode 2 – IT Resilience
I am thinking about renaming this series to the ‘The Bonsai Mysteries’. How frustrating it is to think that you are beginning to know how something works, only to find that it has suddenly malfunctioned (i.e. leaves dropping off) without good reason! My mini tree...
Information Security Accreditation
We are very pleased and proud to have achieved Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus in the last couple of months, not only because it is a demonstration of how seriously we take our clients’ data security but also because it shows that we can ‘walk the walk’ when it comes to the advice that we give our clients.
Time recording – Addressing the Real Issue
Before trying to solve the problem, we need to consider why time gets under-recorded.
Managed Service Providers Practice Primer
Following our well-received overview of the Practice Management System marketplace, we’ve now undertaken a similar appraisal of the Managed Service Providers (MSPs) market – the current state of play, vendor propositions, and potential pitfalls and how to avoid.
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