This year, the conference took place at the lovely St Ermin’s hotel in Victoria on one of those rare days of sunshine. I was surprised that the numbers appeared considerably down from last year http://kimtasso.com/accountancy-age-best-practice-conference-june-2011 Creating an award winning firm – Jeremy Newman, BDO After a brief introduction by Peter Read More
At the recent LawTech Futures conference, two clients (Nils Briendstein of Invensys and Kevin Green of IBM UK Limited) discussed with two leading legal service providers (John Young of Hogan Lovells and Abby Ewen of Simmons & Simmons) the role of technology in future lawyer-client relationships. The following key points Read More
In a January issue of The Lawyer (16th January 2012), there was an article about how the relatively new FD (Lucinda Bell – daughter of a former BL CEO – was formerly head of tax) was given the brief to review relationships with outside law firms. It seems that a Read More
Yesterday I attended the annual Professional Marketing Forum Conference: “Live your brand values and enhance the client experience”. As always, there were many excellent speakers and lots of food for thought – detailed comments will appear in my article in the next edition of Professional Marketing magazine. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/current_issue.aspx But for me, Read More
This report by the Managing Partners Forum http://www.mpfglobal.com/ and the Financial Times was published in June – and was then the subject of a national roadshow - and you can download it here: http://ftcorporate.ft.com/resources/ The purpose of the on-line research into the views of 433 people (17% CEO/chairs of companies and 10% Managing/Senior Read More
