Category Archives: Personal Development
It’s not just lawyers who prosper in law
20 Mar 2012 Full StoryOur Chairman, Phil Jepson, comments on advancement opportunities opening up within Law for City AM – London’s daily business paper. LAW is bigger business than ever. Freshfields employs 5,000 people and has twenty-seven offices in sixteen countries. Linklaters also has twenty-seven offices in twenty countries. Its revenues in 2010-11 were £1.2bn. Of course, this is good news [...]
Read MoreSelling yourself – personal branding in a professional services market
27 Feb 2012 Full StoryProfessional Services are about people. You need clients and contacts to buy into you and that means you need to build your personal brand. Marketing in professional services firms has changed significantly across the past few years. Gone are the days of sitting back and waiting for referrals to call. With increases in competition, difficult [...]
Read MoreHow to do mergers
17 Feb 2012 Full StoryWe are told that 75% of law firms have spent some or all of the last 12 months in discussions about “merger”. In the USA it is reported that mergers are up by 80% in the first three quarters of 2011 against the same period in 2010. The market there is being driven by transactions [...]
Read MoreIncreasing Productivity
20 Jan 2012 Full StoryWe can all be more productive, as individuals and organisations. There is always value that can be added with only the resources at hand. But what increases productivity? Productivity Consultant David Allen suggests the following: Not more resources, as a rule. More money that produces the same result per pound spent is no improvement. What [...]
Read MoreTheory of Constraints
20 Jan 2012 Full StoryNo matter what you do, there is often scope for boosting overall performance. A great way of doing this is to identify and eliminate “bottlenecks,” or things that are holding you back. So how do you identify these bottlenecks? One approach is to use the Theory of Constraints (TOC). This helps you identify the most [...]
Read MoreWork More Effectively
18 Jan 2012 Full StoryA lot of us work hard. Sometimes it feels like we work too hard. Sometimes it feels like we are working hard but not performing well. How can we make sure that we get as much as possible out of the time we spend at work and maybe even do more in less time? Tony [...]
Read MoreWhat are you still doing here?
15 Jan 2012 Full StoryGrey, cold, wet January morning. The economic news is depressing and no one can quite see the light at the end of the tunnel. At one time English qualified lawyers were pretty much stuck in England because re qualifying was difficult and the only overseas jurisdiction we could work in without re qualifying was New [...]
Read MoreNon-Lawyers in Law Firms
21 Oct 2011 Full StoryThe day on which the long heralded reforms of the Legal Services Market took effect was more a damp squib than a big bang. But there is no doubt that change is afoot. Many law firms are restructuring to be competitive in a changing world and to take advantage of new opportunities. New entrants are [...]
Read MoreWorking with Jepson Holt
21 Oct 2011 Full StoryAn interview with a lawyer we placed recently …
Read MoreJepson Holt at the JCI Manchester Young Talent Awards 2011
11 Oct 2011 Full StoryThe 8th September saw the JCI Manchester Young Talent Awards 2011, and the Jepson Holt team were at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel to represent us. Our Consultant and JCI Corporate Membership Director Geoff Baines presented our sponsored award for Legal Professional of the Year, which went to Kai Graf von Pahlen of Hill Dickinson LLP. [...]
Read MoreWill businesses use the new Tesco Style law or will they stick to their trusted advisors?
27 Sep 2011 Full StoryThis question was posed to Phil as part of the pro Manchester Members Views feature. Here is his reply. “As a former lawyer I have no shame in answering the question in the following way: “It depends” In the short term the new entrants seem to be focusing on offering high volume B2C products and [...]
Read MoreMergers & Acquisitions for Law Firms
24 Sep 2011 Full StoryWe have always seen M&A as one way in which law firms can move towards achieving their strategic objectives. At the moment there are a number of factors pushing law firms to grow faster and be bigger: Legal Services Act and the likely new entrants it will produce Opportunities to raise external capital The increased [...]
Read MoreThe Game is Not Over
6 Sep 2011 Full StoryToo many lawyers have given up and assume that Tesco is going to rule the world.Only if you let them.It appears that your customers want quality and at a fixed price.The way they prefer to choose a lawyer is personal recommendation. Now tell me you cannot compete with Tesco! Phil Jepson
Read MoreNew Director
6 Sep 2011 Full StoryWe are delighted to announce that Dawn Richard is joining the Board of Jepson Holt Ltd as our Operations Director. Dawn has been with the business since almost the start and has been a major factor in making us what we are. Her new role and status are recognition of what she has achieved so [...]
Read MoreMerger is not a Strategy
27 Aug 2011 Full StoryMerger mania has begun. Driven by: Legal Services Act and impending deregulation of the market Increasing Professional Indemnity costs Increasing burden of compliance and regulation The economic situation But do not do it for the sake of it. Merger or acquisition is a tool to take you down a road that you have already chosen. [...]
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