Time to freshen up your Business Development plans?
You may feel that you can’t afford to pay for high value, expert management advice to help, support and guide you in growing your business, but you can, with support from our “Practice Development Director” service.
This is an affordable 6-month subscription aimed at helping you take the right steps to get your practice growing again - tapping into all the support we can provide to make things happen.
The standard package gives you up to 10 hours management and business support each month on a 6-month subscription. That would enable us to work with you as an advisor, non-exec, sounding board, catalyst, or however will best help you to shape, manage and develop your practice over the next challenging year or so.
NatWest’s 2025 Legal Report reveals key benchmarks and trends law firm leaders can use to boost profitability, productivity, and strategic growth.
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Master client relationships in your law firm: In today's competitive legal market, proactive client engagement is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Learn proven best practice and strategies, from active listening techniques to leveraging technology to nurture client relationships. This is blueprint to help you establish and constantly develop enduring client relationships, your services and people in your law firm.
We outline how we recommend that a smaller to medium-sized legal practice should think about and plan any new initiative to replace or upgrade legal technology, thinking primarily about practice and case management systems for law firms with up to 300 people, whatever number of offices and types of legal work. Similar considerations apply when you start to dig deeper into adoption of new CRM and Legal AI (Artificial Intelligence) applications, where our specialist law firm consultants can help too.
Technology in the legal sector is evolving rapidly. Traditional case and practice management is giving way to sophisticated intelligent automation and low/no-code platforms from wider business that are transforming how lawyers work - and will keep moving. There's a lot to learn and it will take time to adapt.
Microsoft 365 is now the standard for virtually all law firms. Licensing can be complex with all the updates and modifications, so here is your easy guide to license and working options to help you maximise lawyers' productivity, data security, and collaboration.
Now that use of AI can genuinely deliver results across many areas of practice and is quickly accelerating, a key challenge is getting people engaged and informed about AI's potential and implications. Education & Training, Transparant Communication, Developing Internal Champions.
Digital marketing remains one of the most cost-effective ways to grow your client base, no matter the size of your firm or the type of legal work. Here, we provide practical guidance on how to get the right balance between all the tools available.
Legal Project Management for Corporate and Commercial Lawyers: Forward-thinking firms are finding that Hivelight - when implemented effectively - gives clients greater transparency, faster turnaround times, and demonstrable value for money. Also enabling lawyers to increase profitability while managing workloads, however simple or complex the work.
Sustainability is becoming a crucial component of many law firms' strategies and operations. To drive initiatives in the right direction and build momentum, law firms must engage clients in meaningful discussions about sustainability. This will demonstrate your commitment to clients' values, create opportunities for deeper collaboration, innovative legal solutions, and long-term relationships.