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The advent of a new era for Baskerville Drummond
Baskerville Drummond will be marking the first of December not with the traditional Advent calendar opening but with a celebration of both a significant milestone and company development.
Focus 365 – Microsoft 365 Compliance
Here’s the second video in our new series presented by Nigel Stott that takes a more in-depth look at key aspects of M365 to help law firms learn and adopt with more confidence. Nigel’s done the learning, so you don’t have to, with the onus on pragmatic guidance and...
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...
Focus 365 – Microsoft 365 Video Explainers
Introducing a new series of videos presented by Nigel Stott that take a more in-depth look at key aspects of M365 to help law firms learn and adopt with more confidence. Nigel’s done the learning, so you don’t have to, with the onus on pragmatic guidance and practical...
TechWatch #4
It may be fair to say that reports of the office’s demise over the past year have been exaggerated. Rather than abandoning them entirely, many firms will develop their working spaces to meet the demands of a hybrid workforce that wants choice and flexibility as to...
A look through Windows 11
Remember a few short years ago in 2015 when Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be the last ever version of Windows and from that point on the Operating System would be a stable, evergreen platform? Well, that changed on 24th June this year when Microsoft...
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.
Client Snapshot: Laura Devine Immigration
Project type PMS selectionScope Boutique firm Laura Devine Immigration (LDI) engaged Baskerville Drummond initially to run its PMS selection process to give the firm absolute confidence in their final decision, needing certainty in terms of both functional alignment...
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 lot of a consultant – A message to the supplier community
We have all heard the saying that a consultant merely tells you the time using your own watch whilst charging a tidy sum for doing it. We would like to offer a contrary view - that often consultants are the oil that greases the gears that move a project forward. They...
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.
Client Snapshot: Streathers Solicitors
Project type PMS selectionScope Streathers had looked at a number of practice management systems but lacked the internal knowledge and time to move the project forward. Baskerville Drummond was engaged to manage the selection project end-to-end, from initial...
Hi, Finance – May
“Our income is not the same as our fees. Is that wrong?” The problem Most law firms and managers within those firms, such as Department or Team Heads, tend to monitor performance by looking at the fees billed by each fee earner/team/department, or the firm overall....
The Bonsai Diaries episode 1 – Keeping the Bonsai alive!
The literal translation of Bonsai, from my rather limited research, means “planted in a container”. It didn’t occur to me when I bought it, but this is very representative of life over the last year! We are all in our containers, working from home, at the moment; we...
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TechWatch #3
In the latest TechWatch bulletin, we’ll continue our round-up of eye-catching technologies that have the potential to positively impact the legal sector.
The fresh face of IT
For the love of tech
For any of you that are in an IT team, this is a tough one isn’t it? Enough said – you know what I mean!
Client Snapshot: Latimer Hinks
Discover how helped Latimer Hinks to provide governance around the selection criteria and process, and also to undertake the final project scoping and negotiations throughout their practice management system selection
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.
Hi, Finance – April
“I can see from the Management Accounts that I need my fee earners to record more time. Nearly all of them are under target for the Year-to-Date. I am sure they are busy enough, but they are just not getting the time down on the system. No matter how many times I talk...
Law Firm Management Information – what does good look like in 2021
Katchr’s Graham Moore has been working with law firms for over 30 years and has worked with hundreds of small and medium sized firms, helping them improve their businesses with technology. In this exclusive guest blog Graham shares some observations about the...
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