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Attwaters Jameson Hill PMS Selection
Assisting Attwaters management to understand their requirements and to make an informed selection
Business Information Reporting Capability Review for Lanyon Bowdler
Lanyon Bowdler requested a review of their Business Information (BI) reporting capability and any need for a new solution.
Key hire at Baskerville Drummond to strengthen service offerings
Baskerville Drummond has made a key hire to its team with the appointment of Richard Wyatt, a 35-years’ experienced law firm finance director and long-time Law Society lecturer.
Three legal specialists join forces to form Baskerville Drummond Group to support ‘people in law firms’
Today sees the launch of an innovative legal sector-specific group of like-minded professionals, dedicated and passionate about delivering holistic and value-adding consultancy services to law firms, called the Baskerville Drummond Group.
IT Strategic Review for Attwaters Jameson Hill
Attwaters requested a full strategic review of their IT as a precursor to future IT projects
Baskerville Drummond working in partnership with LawNet
Book your free meeting today and find out how our straight-forward approach to consultancy can assist in meeting your firms requirements.
Second Edition of Calico’s Compass Magazine
The Calico group publish several articles a week and the website is already a rich source of knowledge-led content from Calico members. The second edition of Compass, Calico's print and digital magazine is now available for download. Calico’s purpose is to be “The...
The Alternative Legal IT Conference
I'm delighted to have been asked to host a "Ask the Experts" session at this years Alternative Legal IT Conference which is taking place on the 1st & 2nd October 2019 at the De Vere Beaumont Estate, Windsor. When working "in house" at Tollers I always found the...
Paris Smith PMS Selection
A Practice Management System lasts for 10-15 years. It’s the one system that can change a law firm. PMS selection has no room for error. The selection process is as important as the system selected.
The Virtual IT Director versus a Permanent Employee
A ‘virtual’ IT Director is someone who is there for you as and when required without the need to hire someone into this position as a full-time employee with all of the associated costs. They can work for you as needed whether a few days a month, more regularly or simply on an ad-hoc basis. They could work fully on-site or sometimes remotely, whichever suits your organisation.
Thursday, 13th June 2019 (9:30am – 16:30) at the Shard, London
Following on from the well-received first Business and IT Leaders Forum in October 2018, we are delighted to be able to announce our second forum which will take place on the Thursday, 13th June 2019 at the Shard in London. This forum will be run in conjunction with...
Calico Legal Solutions Group
Baskerville Drummond is proud to be one of the Founding Suppliers of Calico Legal Solutions Group. Calico is a unique collaboration of established and trusted suppliers to over 4,000 legal firms combined from niche practices to the high street, regional and national...
Keeping the lights on but enhancing the offering – Getting the balance right
Our colleague Kevin Goosman’s article on Law Firm IT spend was most timely, with a new budgeting cycle approaching. Getting the most out of your budget and controlling costs is fundamental, but given increasing pressure from your clients – and from partners alerted to...
How to Find Good Legal Sector Suppliers
It’s a typical situation whether at home or at work. You find you need a particular skill or service, but you don’t know where to turn. Perhaps you have never had this need before or worse yet, you may have been let down by the supplier you used last time,...
Law Firm IT Spend – Getting it Right
Having a strong IT capability is critical to all organisations, now more than ever. But like any budget category, you don’t want to overspend, and you need to invest effectively. For law firms, IT spend is likely to be the third largest expenditure category behind...
QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright PMS Selection
Assisting the firm’s management to understand their requirements and the PMS market and to make an informed selection.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
One Size Fits all vs Niche Offerings
Introduction Most full-service law firms face the major challenge of having to reconcile the differing IT system requirements of their various practice areas with the limited resources – both IT and financial – available to the firm. On the other hand, niche firms...
Presenting a Business Case for Increased IT Spend
My previous article “Law Firm IT Spend – Getting it Right”, gave an overview of achieving the right level of IT spend by considering typical spending levels, discussing how to capture and analyse your current spend and giving suggestions for dealing with over-spend....
Not just another legal tech event..
On 23rd October at the Shard in London we hosted our first – our very first – networking forum. But why do we want to add yet another event to the already overwhelming Legal Tech events calendar? We approached the event (and the whole idea of a networking forum) from...
Beware of what’s in the Barrel
I was recently invited to speak at The Law Society’s Law Management Section conference. My topic was “Getting value from IT investments”. Quantifying the return on investment from IT projects is a minefield many of us have tried to address, but while those efforts are...
Law Firm IT Spend – Getting it Right
Having a strong IT capability is critical to all organisations, now more than ever. But like any budget category, you don’t want to overspend, and you need to invest effectively. For law firms, IT spend is likely to be the third largest expenditure category behind...
BUSTING THE BUZZWORDS – Part 3 – Software as a Service
O! it is pleasant with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please (…with thanks to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) As we sweltered and gasped through one of the hottest summers in memory, it would have required...
The Value of Unstructured Data
What is Unstructured Data? Unstructured is defined as “not formally organised in a set or conventional pattern”. At home, most of us save documents to either our Documents folder on the PC or to cloud storage products like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We can...
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