8/3/12 – CXINLAW’s ‘Customer Experience in Law’ report creates a storm within the Legal Sector
Legal consultancy group CXINLAW is creating a surge of interest within the legal sector following the release of its 70 page report which highlights the value of customer experience in law firms and legal service providers.
Key findings all point to the prevalence and negative impact of poor levels of customer service within the legal sector. These findings include the fact that almost half of all legal service providers present a first impression that can significantly impede the chance of converting a prospective client into one that is likely to make an instruction. Likewise for current clients, the findings indicate that poor service can not only frustrate clients, but in many cases, can lead to them defecting and taking their business to a competitor. The report goes on to recommend a number of simple first steps in introducing ‘customer experience best practice’ to law firms.
Carl White, Partner at CXinLAW said, “Following its release, many law firms and legal service providers are asking, What can we do to improve the experience we offer our clients?. Our answer is, in a crowded and changing marketplace, it is vital to differentiate your firm from the competition. Where services, knowledge and pricing are similar from firm to firm, it is essential to look at service through the eyes of clients – does your firm reassure a caller, build trust and make it easy for them to engage and recommend the firm. If you take the time to assess, you may be surprised at what you find.”
Due to the degree of interest in the report, CXINLAW are proud to announce the inaugural Customer Experience in Law seminar in London. The event is free for anyone in the legal sector interested in growing market share through the delivery of improved customer experience. The event will run in April 2012 with dates and location to be soon announced on www.cxinlaw.com and www.netlawmedia.com.
CXINLAW is a subsidiary of Netlaw Media, the leading legal events organisation in association with Potentio, the specialist customer experience design agency.
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6/3/12 – Netlaw Media’s Partners Club Presents Paralympian Bethany Woodward
Netlaw Media’s Partners Club in association with Lloyds TSB Commercial are pleased to announce that paralympian gold medal prospect, Bethany Woodward has been confirmed to make a special keynote presentation at the ‘Bidding for Olympic Contracts’ event in London on Wednesday, 25th April 2012.
Bethany is an International Athlete with Cerebral Palsy, a life-long condition which effects motor control. Bethany finished fifth in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010 before peaking again in the 400m at the World Championships in New Zealand in January 2011 to be first across the line. She also won World Championship bronze as part of the 4 x 100m relay team. Bethany now has her eyes set on winning a Gold Medal in the London Paralympics and remains one of Team GB’s highest prospects.
This exclusive ‘Bidding for Olympic Contracts’ event by Netlaw Media will discuss how law firms and legal service providers can position themselves to bid for contracts which will be made available following the London Olympic Games.
Other speakers and presenters include David Coulson, Senior Executive in the London 2012 Regional Business Support at EEDA and Bernie Hollywood, Senior Business Development Manager at Lloyds TSB.
This special event being held at 7 Bedford Row, London is free for members of Netlaw Media’s Partners Club and is limited to the first 70 members who register to attend.
Following the event, a networking reception will take place where members will be offered an opportunity to be photographed with the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
Partners Club networking events are free to attend and offer an exclusive opportunity to network and build relationships with like-minded professionals at unique venues & locations throughout London and the UK. Members are also offered a range of social and educational events as well as exclusive access to information and discounts offered by the clubs sponsors.
Should you wish to register as a member or attend the ‘Bidding for Olympic Contracts’ event, visit www.netlawmedia.com or contact the Partners Club Membership Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
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2/3/12 – Netlaw Media Sells Out its 6th Major Law Event in Succession
Leading UK legal event, training and information provider Netlaw Media in association with Charles Christian, Editor in Chief of the Legal Technology Insider, has today announced that their upcoming legal technology conference and exhibition ‘LawTech Futures 2012 – The Future of Legal Technology’ has reached a capacity sell out. Today’s announcement by Netlaw Media has confirmed the legal event organiser’s sixth major event sell out in succession, a feat never before achieved in the UK legal events market.
“With over 530 leading representatives from the world of legal technology coming together for what is the first of Netlaw Media’s legal IT events, this is certainly the date in every IT Director’s calendar” said Gary Stefano, Sales Manager of Netlaw Media “and with globally acclaimed thought leaders such as Gerd Leonhard and Dr Patrick Dixon as this year’s keynote speakers, we certainly feel we have set the new benchmark for Legal Technology events within the UK and European markets. The partnership with Charles Christian and the delivery of some of the most respected professionals within the legal technology world” continued Stefano “means we are all very excited to be welcoming not only many leading law firms from around the UK, but also a large number of off-shore and international law firms from countries as far afield as the United States and Australia”.
The theme of this year’s LawTech Futures event is ‘The Future of Legal Technology’ with leading presenters including Gerd Leonhard, Dr Patrick Dixon, Charles Christian, Nils Breidenstein of Invensys, Paul Richards of Clifford Chance, John Young of Hogan Lovells, Jan Durant of Lewis Silkin, Abby Ewen at Simmons & Simmons, P.S. Ranganathan of Tata Consultancy Services and Tim Cheadle of LexisNexis. With the event delivering 2 keynote presentations, 6 chairpersons, 45 expert speakers, 3 stages and the largest HD stage screen ever seen at any UK legal event, LawTech Futures 2012 promises to deliver an event experience like no other.
Since establishing in 2008, London based Netlaw Media has cemented a reputation as one of Europe’s foremost authorities within the legal events arena by delivering a constant string of sold out law events and training sessions. To add additional weight to the Netlaw Media portfolio, during 2011, Netlaw Media launched ‘Partners Club’ which has grown rapidly to support over 450 members from over 320 Law firms, Barristers’ Chambers and Corporates.
For more information visit www.lawtechfutures.com / www.netlawmedia.com or Telephone: Netlaw Media on +44 (0)20 3176 4200
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29/2/12 – Future of Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Corporate Legal, Attorneys & Legal Counsel by Dr Patrick Dixon, Keynote Speaker at LawTech Futures 2012 – The Future of Legal Technology’ in London, 15th March 2012
The practice of law is changing very rapidly, mainly due to a combination of technology and globalization. Traditional law firms and law schools are being left behind rapidly. Lawyers have enjoyed being part of a relatively protected and exclusive community, with few price pressures, little transparency over cost structures, billing by the hour, rather than offering fixed price deals, and a mystique that until now has meant they faced few challenges from their clients in the way they worked. The future will be far less comfortable. Successful law firms will require far stronger customer focus: under promising and over delivering, exceeding expectations every time. It means deep insight into what it actually feels like to be a customer, with an intuitive understanding of what really matters.
Here are 10 key legal trends which relate to each other to differing degrees, depending on where you are in the world:
Deregulation – eg in UK, with approval of the so-called Tesco Law, allowing corporations to offer a wide range of legal services. Traditional law firms are now able to raise capital in the market through public share listings, and rapidly expand, in competition with any company who wishes to enter the same market. Expect changes in the way that legal services are marketed.
Outsourcing – Forrester estimates that outsourcing of legal services to emerging markets could be an industry worth more than $4 billion by 2015. Many tens of thousands of legal jobs have already moved offshore – mostly lower grade roles for tasks such as document preparation. Some of this is outsourcing to law firms in the same nation, the rest is offshoring, particularly to India, where hourly cost may be only 10-20% of a US or European equivalent. Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) will continue to grow rapidly as corporations become more confident that issues relating to confidentiality and security are being dealt with. As part of this shift, we are also seeing huge growth of new legal graduates in nations like India – over 20,000 a year.
Globalisation – as legal requirements of multinational clients grow more complex, many law firms have globalized to keep pace, offering specialist advice in many different countries, as well as centers of excellence in specialty areas.
Virtual Law Firms – in the past, many of the best-known firms drew most of their talent from a small geographic area, often in competition with other leading Firms. Most staff sat in traditional offices, where they saw clients, and worked full time. Virtual law firms are growing very fast in numbers. They may have a very small physical office, with team members working from home or various other locations, maybe part-time. They benefit from the fact that it is unusual these days for people to go and see a lawyer. More often, the lawyer will visit them – especially the case in corporate legal practice. Team members often work on a freelance basis, earning most of the fees they generate, which is unheard of in larger, traditional Firms.
Legal search engines and other web-based legal services – Companies like CyberSettle, LegalZoom and CompleteCase are changing the way that members of the public get legal help and advice. The number of standard legal forms available online is growing fast, often supplied with minor customization. Social networking is allowing people to locate others with the knowledge or experience they need, with a couple of mouse clicks.
Commoditization – separating out all repetitive tasks, or ones requiring low grade knowledge and skills, from those that require a full legal training, and experience; use of computer systems to produce a growing range of sophisticated documents.
Multichannel communications – many law firms were slow to adopt email in the 1980s and 1990s, and are lagging far behind today’s clients in their non-use of social media, video links, Google+ and other means of digital contact.
8. Growing numbers of lawsuits – in every nation, as citizens become more aware of their legal rights and opportunities to claim compensation. Huge growth of no-win, no-fee deals with clients, enabling low income claimants to go to court. Industrial scale searches for potential medical injury clients by companies who then feed leads following events like auto accidents into the “system” in return for fees for each referral.
Reduced state funding – for those on low incomes in court cases, as part of austerity cutbacks.
Rapid growth in complexity of legislation and regulations – in many parts of the world, with explosion in compliance costs for all businesses, particularly those in financial services as a direct result of recent economic crisis.
What will be the net impact of all this on earnings for lawyers? Is law still a good career choice? The answer is that it depends where you are and in what specialty.
At the top end, the best specialist advisors will continue to be highly prized and will be rewarded very generously.
Middle level lawyers will continue to be in demand, but with increasing pressure on fees, expected to work harder with less staff support, less use of office resources, and more use of technology. However, at the same time it will be easier in future for lawyers to work part-time, to take career breaks, work from home and so on.
Those doing fairly routine legal tasks in expensive nations will find themselves in competition with online automation, with new non-traditional retail competitors (in countries like the UK), and with human beings with far better qualifications in emerging nations.
Those that wish to future-proof their careers will focus on areas that require specialist knowledge, keep ahead in digital innovation and social media, and invest in key relationships – both clients and potential employers.
Patrick Dixon has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the UK’s largest one day legal IT event, ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ taking place at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on the 15th March 2012.
With 2 Keynotes Presentations, 6 Chairpersons and over 45 Expert Speakers on three stages, LawTech Futures 2012 will bring together some of the most highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology worlds to examine and explore the new range of systems, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.
LawTech Futures 2012 is produced by Charles Christian, the world’s most widely-read legal IT commentator in association with Netlaw Media, the leading legal events and media organisation behind a record number of successive ‘sold out’ major law events including the Key Strategies for Law Firms and Strategic Leadership Forum series of events.
For more information visit – http://www.lawtechfutures.com / http://www.netlawmedia.com / http://www.theorangerag.com
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22/2/12 – Data is the new oil – and ‘publicy’ is the new default by Gerd Leonhard, Keynote Speaker at LawTech Futures 2012 – The Future of Legal Technology’ in London, 15th March 2012
In this hyper-networked society, everyone seems to want to know what we think, all the time, what we like, where we are and who we are connected to. Data (and metadata, i.e. data about data) is quickly becoming a primary force in our digital society, and since successful advertising is forever based on having good data on who is on the other end, the consumer is becoming more powerful than ever before – if he/she opts out of providing data it’s game-over. Never before did consumers wield this much power over marketers; never before could we trade our data for free goods and services in this way (eg Gmail, Skype, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook). The quest for data has made us powerful but it has made us dependent on its benefits as well. The Faustian bargain is in full swing.
Some pundits even argue that the only reason advertising in its ‘traditional’ form (a global business worth approx. $550 billion per year) ever existed was simply because we were not yet truly connected, and had no real way to ignore it. Interruption was the game, and the loudest yelling was the best way to sell. Now, with digital technologies in the hand of billions of consumers, we are indeed ignoring what we have no use for, and from our media we expect a lot more than meaningless noise and interruptions. If we provide our cherished data we will expect perfect matches, i.e. a sprinkler system of truly good stuff not a fire-hose of noise.
Because we can now wield data as our currency, we will no longer tolerate interruptions, meaningless pitches, disruptive pop-ups or junk email. Very soon we will be open only for truly personalized offers, real meaning, solid relevance, timeliness, word-of-mouth, and yes, real transparency and truthfulness. It’s all about merit and values that are geared 100% towards us, not to everybody else, or someone else. Our data has become our weapon, and we will barter hard with it. Trillions of dollars of marketing, advertising and public relations budgets are at stake.
Clearly, going forward, if brands and their marketers, the media, and the ads and messages we see do not provide real value we will quickly lock them out of our lives. Useful, data-rich and properly permitted advertising is indeed becoming content itself, and the-people-formerly-known-as-consumers are getting better and better at creating meta-content as well. The power has shifted from the middle to the edges ie to the users, and to the creators (and this is, by the ay, why we have so much upheaval in the content business).
Of course, the key question for marketers still is the same but has just become much more Darwinian: how can you cut the noise, how can you be relevant, be truly wanted (and possibly even loved, like Apple), make a better match, and benefit from meaningful connections? How can you turn the intent of selling into content, into engagement, into mutual appreciation? Is that even possible in the age of digital empowerment? Yelling is dead, and engagement needs permission – a tough but extremely rewarding challenge.
This is where we must consider the enormous value of data, and what it will mean to this new playing field.
Data is now generated at an exponential rate, every day, by billions of users forwarding a link, rating a site, commenting on a blog, tweeting, sharing bookmarks, allowing cookies on their devices, sharing their location, logging into websites, liking something on Facebook. Everywhere we go, everything we do, every move we make around the Net (and soon, elsewhere, as well) creates click-trails, leaves digital breadcrumbs, produces data exhaust, and creates what I like to call meta-content, ie content around content.
In our immediate future are faster mobile Internet access at a much lower cost and much cheaper, yet more powerful and smart, mobile devices, connected devices that are not phones or computers but things, objects and products; computing shifting from tethered computers and mouse clicking to tablets, touch-screens and finger-sweeping; and from downloading to cloud-tapping, which without a doubt will generate seriously more data than ever before, and at an increasing faster rate.
The mind boggles (or, as some would say, it recoils) over the possibilities as well as the challenges. data is the new oil and just like we fought over oil we will fight over data – however these fights will be visible to everyone, and will be fought in public.
Whoever gets to sift through this data, slice and dice it, move it around, make it useful, define its legal and fair use, and somehow make sense of it all, is probably going to be more powerful than Big Oil has ever been. Google, Facebook and yes, Twitter, come to mind immediately.
Something that we must certainly come to grips with is that privacy will almost certainly become something that we must act on to get back, rather than something we attain or retain by mere default. In a way, as Jeff Jarvis likes to put it ‘Publicy’ is now the default, and privacy is merely an option (and an action item!). Scary thought or huge opportunity? Either way, those powerful new tools of sharing and self-publishing will require that we learn to realize, accept and handle new responsibilities, as well – now that all of us can easily and constantly connect, we also need to learn new limits, new do’s and don’ts – and the purveyors of this new power need to help us rather than merely seduce us.
The data that all of us are increasingly generating and constantly spreading as most of us are switching to an always-on mode, will be at the core of all future success in marketing, branding and advertising – and for that alone it’s roughly worth $1 trillion already (counting advertising spend, marketing and communication budgets, data- mining etc).
If the future TV does not know who we are, where we are, what we have watched, for how long, who we have shared shows with, what we have commented on, how we rate things, then the marketers’ job will become a lot harder, if not impossible. Matches can’t be made, relationships can’t be forced, brands can’t be followed, connections are interrupted.
Getting too little or bad data – or not understanding it – will literally mean running out of gas in the middle of the desert. Therefore, the mission is to keep it all fuelled up. And just like oil, there will be a myriad of issues (hopefully, not wars) that will arise with the responsible and fair practices of drilling, pumping, shipping, refining and dispensing of data. But without a doubt these issues will be solved in due course because this Data-Oil is very potent and because the responsible use of it will light up so many households that a sufficient incentive for problem-solving exists. Telecom companies and mobile operators will want in on this game, as well – afterall, it’s their networks that make this all work (for now).
My prediction is that we will see a huge influx of companies dealing with the various aspects of data drilling, shipping, refining and remixing, and that the next Exxon or Mobil may well be a data-slicing company. Hopefully, they will be more ecology minded and sustainable, though. Agencies, marketers and brands need to embrace the challenges and stake out their roles in this new Data-Oil ecosystem.
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the World’. He is the co-author of the influential book The Future of Music as well as the author of The End of Control.
Gerd Leonhard has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the UK’s largest one day legal IT event, ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ taking place at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on the 15th March 2012.
With 2 Keynotes Presentations, 6 Chairpersons and over 45 Expert Speakers on three stages, LawTech Futures 2012 will bring together some of the most highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology worlds to examine and explore the new range of systems, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.
LawTech Futures 2012 is produced by Charles Christian, the world’s most widely-read legal IT commentator in association with Netlaw Media, the leading legal events and media organisation behind a record number of successive ‘sold out’ major law events including the Key Strategies for Law Firms and Strategic Leadership Forum series of events.
For more information visit – http://www.lawtechfutures.com / http://www.netlawmedia.com / http://www.theorangerag.com
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9/1/12 – Netlaw Media and Potentio launch a New Consumer Experience Platform for Law Firms
Netlaw Media has announced a partnership with service experts Potentio to offer an innovative platform of tools and programmes for legal service providers which are designed to create and support the delivery of outstanding customer service.
Following twelve months of detailed planning, CXinLaw will combine the sector knowledge of one of Europe’s most successful legal media and events organisations Netlaw Media, together with Potentio, the customer service specialists renowned for improving the service experience levels within the world’s best known brands and businesses.
“Differentiation through service is imperative for law firms in a market which is now subjected to new legislation as well as the saturation of existing providers and new entrants” said Carl White, Partner at CXinLaw. “With clients no longer offering loyalty based solely upon cost or expertise, we have found that clients are now demanding outstanding levels of service from instruction through to completion if repeat business is to be offered”.
“Research indicates that 98% of prospective or existing clients will not communicate bad or sub-standard service to their providers, they simply do not return to the original point of sale. Furthermore, by combining a practical service strategy together with training and engagement, outstanding customer service will assist law firms to release up to 50% extra profit by retaining just 5% of their clients”.
“With three key areas focusing on service innovation, education and performance, CXinLaw has been formatted to respond to a changing legal environment in which consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their overall experience of service. Recently, we implemented a customer experience scheme at a leading UK retailer where within 12 weeks of roll-out, we helped them to create an additional £900,000 of sales revenue through a programme which delivered an improved service experience. By utilizing the CXinLaw platform, this highly significant figure is certainly scalable within any law firm or business within the legal sector” said White.
CXinLaw’s primary aim is to ensure law firms leverage every customer touch-point to deliver a well-defined, unique and consistently executed service that builds loyal, client relationships and sustainable profitability.
CXinLaw offers law firms:
- Service aligned strategies created with internal business partners
- ‘Voice of the Customer’ programs, secret shopping and client feedback
- Front-end service analysis, competitor benchmarking and evaluation
- Innovative development initiatives tailored to enhance service delivery and culture
- Core and modular programs including service training, coaching and online learning
- Management support and training to enable ownership and leadership of service excellence
- Reception, front-of-house, and call centre evaluation, training and development
- End-to-end customer service process design and upgrades
During January 2012, CXinLaw will lead the field with the release of results from a ground-breaking legal ‘secret shopping’ campaign which assessed the front-end service provided by 100 law firms in the UK. The ‘CXinLaw White Paper’ is a sector first and has specifically identified where the opportunities for service development are, and more so, where firms must build the business case for improvement.
To learn more about how CXinLaw can assist your firm to implement best practice whilst developing an inspired culture of outstanding service, visit www.netlawmedia.com/cxinlaw or call 020 3176 4271.
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21/12/11 – Tata Consultancy Services confirmed as the Event Partner of the UK’s Biggest One Day Legal Technology Event.
Charles Christian and Netlaw Media today announced that Tata Consultancy Services have been officially named as the Event Partner of the LawTech Futures 2012 legal IT conference and exhibition in London.
Taking place on the 15th March 2012, Frances Anderson of Netlaw Media said “We are delighted with the partnership between TCS and the LawTech Futures 2012 event and look forward to revealing the world exclusive announcement that TCS will be making on the main stage during the conference”.
“Following ongoing discussions with Tata Consultancy Services” continued Anderson, “we are very excited and privileged to be chosen by TCS as the launch pad for their new legal solutions as we feel TCS will soon be ranked among the world’s most trusted legal technology suppliers”.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process Outsourcing organisation. TCS has a strategic focus on the Legal Services sector, providing innovative best-in-class solutions and services that address the challenges and business imperatives of clients with national or international operations. TCS provides business solutions to 7 of the Global Fortune top 10 companies, and importantly their clients now include law firms operating in AM law, UK and mainland Europe, who selected TCS’LMS “market ready” legal ERP system as their strategic platform for the future.
TCS is part of the Tata group; India’s largest industrial conglomerate with $83 billion, TCS has over 200,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 42 countries and already has established Centres of Excellence for SAP, Interwoven, Adobe, MicroSoft and Opentext, with revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ended ending March 31, 2011.
Tata Consultancy Services will be making a ‘World Exclusive Announcement’ at the LawTech Futures 2012 event in March 2012. The announcement will be made on the main stage at 11.40am and promises to be one of the biggest talking points in legal technology during 2012.
A full day pass to ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ is priced at £245 + vat with additional discounts for bookings of two or more. A pass for the event includes – presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, exhibitions, networking, refreshments, lunch, post-event champagne drinks reception and 6 hours SRA accredited CPD.
Netlaw Media encourages early bookings as ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ is expected to sell out weeks in advance.
For bookings and further information, visit lawtechfutures.com / www.netlawmedia.com or Telephone: Netlaw Media Legal Event Reservations on +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
LawTech Futures is presented by the world’s most read legal technology commentator Charles Christian, in association with the UK’s most successful legal events organisation Netlaw Media.
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12/12/11 – The UK’s Largest Legal Technology Event Confirms an International Line-up for London in 2012
The world’s most read legal technology commentator Charles Christian, in association with the UK’s most successful legal events organisation Netlaw Media, have today announced the final line-up for the biggest one day legal technology event ever staged in the UK.
With 2 Internationally renowned keynote speakers, 5 chairpersons, 40 expert presenters and over 30 of the world’s leading technology suppliers, ‘LawTech Futures 2012 – The Future of Legal Technology’ is set to attract the world’s legal technology elite to witness presentations by globally renowned futurists including winner of the ‘Quincy Jones Award’ Gerd Leonhard and Dr Patrick Dixon who is ranked as ‘one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today’.
With three stages delivering multi-stream conference sessions, presentations, panel discussions, interviews, debates and interactive demonstrations, ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ will examine and explore a wide range of new systems, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.
Taking place in London on the 15th of March 2012, ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ will host an array of highly respected personalities from the legal & commercial technology worlds including Gerd Leonhard, Dr Patrick Dixon, Charles Christian, Chris Bull, Chris Cann, Peter Owen, Andrew Haslam, Nils Breidenstein, Paul Richards, Tim Cheadle, Mike Barry, John Young, Yuri Frayman, Abby Ewen, Jason Plant, Frank Coggrave, Helena Hallgarn, Neil Renfrew, Stuart Whittle, Colin Wilson, Jan Durant, Eric Hunter, Julie Berry, Jo Riddick, Nigel Redwood, Barry Talbot, Osman Ismail, Colin Fowle, Hannah Jones, Richard Newton, Charles Drayson, Karen Bailey, Arlene Adams, Eric Sugden, Kate Paslin and many more…
A full day pass to ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ is priced at £245 + vat with additional discounts for bookings of two or more. A pass for the event includes – presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, exhibitions, networking, refreshments, lunch, post-event champagne drinks reception and 6 hours SRA accredited CPD.
Netlaw Media encourages early bookings as ‘LawTech Futures 2012’ in expected to sell out weeks in advance.
For bookings and further information, visit lawtechfutures.com / www.netlawmedia.com or Telephone: Netlaw Media Legal Event Reservations on +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
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12/12/11 – Netlaw Media continues to drive opportunity within the legal sector by registering over 350 members for its Partners Club networking group.
London’s Netlaw Media has once again shown that any business with vision, initiative and drive can rise above the financial situation which is continuing to weaken the European economy.
In a year which saw reduced profits and ongoing redundancies at many law firms within the UK legal sector, Netlaw Media decided more needed to be done to assist the Legal sector and on the 1st July 2011, Netlaw Media’s networking and referral group ‘Partners Club’ was born.
“From the minute we launched Partners Club, we knew we had something unique” said Gary Stefano, of Netlaw Media. “Originally our target was to register 100 senior representatives for the first networking event on the 15th September 2011, however after 7 weeks and very little advertising, we needed to remove all event notices after we received over 220 applications. Following the success of the initial networking event, word of the club continued to circulate within the sector and in less than 5 months from the date of launch, we have now registered over 350 management level members from over 240 law firms, barristers’ chambers and corporate legal departments”.
“The concept of Partners Club is quite distinctive” continued Stefano. “We not only devised a platform for senior level networking and relationship building, but we have created an opportunity for law firms and individuals to refer work and gain new contracts in a time when law firms need to sustain profitability.
Following the first networking event, we have now constructed an advisory panel to assist with the direction of the club and with new member registrations flooding in on a daily basis, we are now well on the way to creating the largest legal networking and referral group in Europe”.
The next Partners Club networking event is scheduled to take place on the 2nd February 2012 at Haberdashers Hall in London where over 300 members from the legal sector will gather for an evening of wines, canapés, networking and music.
Partners Club networking events are free to attend and offer an exclusive opportunity to network and build relationships with like-minded professionals at unique venues & locations throughout London and the UK. Members are also offered a range of social and educational events as well as exclusive access to information and discounts offered by the clubs sponsors.
Should you wish to register as a member or attend the next networking event in London, visit the Partners Club membership page netlawmedia.com/partners-club or contact the Club’s Membership Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
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1/11/11 – Netlaw Media and Charles Christian to stage the UK’s Biggest Legal Technology Event in London
Following a constant string of sold out law events and conferences, the UK’s leading legal events organisor Netlaw Media, has teamed up with the world’s most widely read legal IT commentator, Charles Christian to present the largest one day legal technology event ever staged in the UK.
‘It is a real pleasure to be working with Charles Christian’ said Gary Stefano, Sales Manager at Netlaw Media. “By combining the legal IT knowledge and reputation of Charles Christian with the event production strategies and experience of Netlaw Media, we are fully expecting LawTech Futures 2012 to be Netlaw Media’s sixth major event sell out in succession.
When we began to design the concept of LawTech Futures, we wanted to deliver not only the new benchmark in legal technology events, shows and conferences, but we wanted to create an experience which pushes the boundaries of legal IT events to a limit that has never been seen in the UK legal sector. What we have produced” continued Stefano “is an event experience that delivers three stages, multi-stream conference sessions, keynote presentations, panel discussions, interviews, debates and interactive demonstrations which are conducted by some of the most highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology worlds.
By partnering with Charles Christian of the Legal Technology Insider, LawTech Futures is an event that will break the mould of the often mundane legal IT event with an exciting new format that will set a new benchmark in the delivery of legal technology events and exhibitions for many years to come, and with over 35 well known presenters exploring and unveiling new systems, processes and platforms, this event will deliver cutting-edge information that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond”.
Taking place at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on the 15th of March 2012, LawTech Futures 2012 will not focus on solving yesterday’s problems. This futuristic event will explore the new range of innovative technologies and with LawTech Futures certain to be Netlaw Media’s next major event sell out, anyone with an interest in the future of legal technology is urged to book well in advance.
Tickets for LawTech Futures 2012 go on sale on the 1st November 2011.
For more information visit www.lawtechfutures.com or visit www.netlawmedia.com.
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23/9/11 – Partners Club Becomes the UK’s Leading Networking Group for Top Legal Professionals
220 Partners Club Members, one great venue, the crème de la crème of the UK legal sector and TotallyLegal, the UK’s top job site for legal professionals. That pretty much sums up the success the first Partners Club event that took place on 15th September at the Holborn Bars in London. TotallyLegal sponsored the premier networking event which was attended by leading Law Firms, Barristers’ Chambers and Corporates. We are thrilled to have been part of it and are hoping to see the popularity of the Partners Club continue to grow among the country’s leading legal professionals.
Partners Club is London legal media and events organization Netlaw Media’s newly formed networking group for law firms and legal management, who are still marveling at the turnout and overall popularity of the Partners Club, which had 220 members sign up in less than seven weeks.
“Partners Club is designed as a platform for senior representatives to network and build professional relationships whilst developing business opportunities in a time when many firms and businesses within the legal sector are under pressure to sustain revenue and growth”, says Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media.
Senior representatives from over 130 Law Firms, 35 Barristers Chambers and 45 Corporates with over 70% of members from law firms with over 21 Partners registered with the Partners Club. In addition, the club also has several Global, General, European and Senior Counsels from some of the world’s biggest corporates registered with them.
Netlaw Media is seeking to make the Partners Club, the largest networking group for law management in Europe within the next 6 to 12 months and hopes to raise the number of members to 400 by January 2012.
Partners Club Networking Events are open to law firm CEOs, COOs, Managing Partners, Senior Partners and Partners, as well as Heads of Chambers, QCs, Chambers Directors, Corporate Presidents & Vice Presidents, Corporate Counsels and Directors of Legal Affairs & Legal Departments within Corporates & Governments.
Partners Club Networking Events offer an exclusive opportunity to relax, network and build relationships with other like-minded professionals at unique venues & locations throughout London and the UK.
The Next Partners Club Networking Event is scheduled to take place on 2nd February, 2012 in London. Watch this space for further details closer to the date.
Should you wish to attend Partners Club Networking Events and fit within the ‘eligible criteria’, register by visiting the Netlaw Media website or contact the Club’s Membership Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
Article written by TotallyLegal
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22/8/11 – Partners Club: Netlaw Media’s Networking Group for the Legal Sector proves a huge hit with Law Firms and Legal Management
London legal media and events organisation Netlaw Media has this week announced that it’s newly formed networking group for law firms and legal management has surpassed all expectations by registering its 220th member in less than seven weeks.
With a long list of leading Law Firms, Barristers’ Chambers and Corporates registered to attend the first Partners Club networking event in London on the 15th September 2011, Netlaw Media has once again proven that innovation is the key driver in a demanding economic environment.
“Partners Club is designed as a platform for senior representatives to network and build professional relationships whilst developing business opportunities in a time when many firms and businesses within the legal sector are under pressure to sustain revenue and growth” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media.
“Since launching Partners Club, we have been inundated with enquiries from all over the UK and Europe, and surpassed our original goal of 120 members in just over three weeks” continued Anderson. “As a result, we have now registered senior representatives from over 130 Law Firms, 35 Barristers Chambers and 45 Corporates with over 70% of members from law firms with over 21 Partners. In addition, we have also registered many Global, General, European and Senior Counsels from some of the world’s biggest corporates for the first event. With over 220 new member registrations and the recent launch of the Partners Club LinkedIn group, our goal is to grow the club to over 400 members by January 2012 and with plans of expanding the group, we are aiming to create the largest networking groups for law management in Europe within the next 6 to 12 months”.
Partners Club Networking Events are FREE to attend and open to law firm CEOs, COO’s, Managing Partners, Senior Partners and Partners, as well as Heads of Chambers, QC’s, Chambers Directors, Corporate Presidents & Vice Presidents, Corporate Counsels and Directors of Legal Affairs & Legal Departments within Corporates & Governments and offer an exclusive opportunity to relax, network and build relationships with other like-minded professionals at unique venues & locations throughout London and the UK.
The Next Partners Club Networking Event is scheduled to take place from 6pm on the 15th September 2011 at Holborn Bars, London.
Should you wish to attend Partners Club Networking Events and fit within the ‘eligible criteria’, register by visiting the Netlaw Media website or contact the Club’s Membership Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
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1/7/11 – Netlaw Media launches an exclusive networking club for the legal sector
Netlaw Media continues to expand its services within the legal sector by launching an exclusive networking and referral club for legal management entitled ‘Partners Club’.
Following a hugely successfully year which saw Netlaw Media produced its fifth major event sell out in succession, the London based legal media and events organisation has continued to prove its versatility and innovation by launching an exclusive networking group that invites law firm management to meet with key legal personnel from Commercial Businesses, Governments and Barristers’ Chambers on a regular basis.
“Partners Club is designed to offer legal professionals an opportunity to build professional relationships and referrals in a time when many law firms and businesses are continuing to experience difficulties in the current economic climate” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media.
“When we began to discuss the concept of Partners Club, we assessed many within the sector to ascertain the most important aspects when offering contracts or referring work. When compiling our research, we found that the importance of a strong relationship was cited time and time again. This survey confirmed our initial thoughts and we set about designing a club that not only offers prestige, but created an interactive platform where CEOs and Partners can meet with QCs, Heads of Chambers, Counsels and Directors of Government Departments to begin to form such relationships in an exclusive, yet relaxed atmosphere”.
“From the moment Partners Club was launched” said Anderson “we immediately began to experience a flood of interest with over 55 registrations received within the first 72 hours, and by presenting the legal sector with a club that offers free membership, networking events and a host of additional features, we certainly believe Partners Club is about to set a benchmark in legal management networking”.
The Next Partners Club Networking Event is scheduled to take place on the 15th September 2011 at Holborn Bars in London.
With a focus on building relationships, Partners Club membership is free for legal professionals who fit within the eligible guidelines. Should you wish to attend Partners Club Networking Events, register by visiting the Netlaw Media Partners Club registration page or contact the Club’s Membership Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 3176 4200.
For more information please visit www.netlawmedia.com or www.solicitorsblog.com.
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10/5/11 – Netlaw Media Sells Out its 5th Major Law Event in Succession
Leading UK legal event, training and information provider Netlaw Media, has today announced that its flagship event ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ has reached a capacity sell out. Today’s announcement by Netlaw Media has confirmed the legal event organiser’s fifth major event sell out in succession, a feat rarely achieved in the events market since the financial meltdown of 2009.
“This year’s Key Strategies for Law Firms event has surpassed all expectations” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media. “With over 185 representatives from the legal sector gathering for this year’s conference, we are certainly looking forward to conducting one of the year’s best attended law events, and with the likes of Nick Freeman (aka Mr Loophole) as this year’s keynote speaker, we certainly feel we have delivered the finest business development event for law firms on the European calendar. With ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011’ the 2nd Biennial event of the series” continued Anderson “we are all very excited to be welcoming not only many leading law firms from the UK, but also a large number of international law firms from countries such as Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, Turkey, and as far afield as Serbia and Africa”.
‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ is a follow up to Netlaw Media’s 2009 series which attracted over 230 law firms to the three events staged in London, Bristol and Manchester. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ and with leading speakers including Nick Freeman, Prof. Stephen Mayson, Kevin Green of IBM, John Young of Hogan Lovells, Neil Kinsella of Russell Jones & Walker, Mark Soundy of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Charles Christian of the Legal Technology Insider, Emma Shipp of Sprecher Grier Halberstam, Elliot Moss of Mishcon de Reya, Craig Holt of QualitySolicitors and Tamara Box of Berwin Leighton Paisner the event promises to be one of the most pro-active law conferences of 2011.
Since establishing in 2008, London based Netlaw Media has cemented a reputation as one of Europe’s foremost authorities within the legal events arena by delivering a constant string of sold out law events and training sessions. To add additional weight to the Netlaw Media legal information portfolio, during late 2010, Netlaw Media moved into the online information market by launching www.solicitorsblog.com. Since the launch of Solicitorsblog.com, the website has been embraced by the legal community who have submitted over 40,000 individual law blogs and news articles making it one of the world’s largest law related information portals in less than 9 months.
For more information in regards to Netlaw Media services and events visit www.netlawmedia.com or www.solicitorsblog.com or Telephone: +44 (0)20 3176 4200
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24/1/11 – ‘Mr Loophole’ announced as Keynote Speaker of Netlaw Media’s ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ Conference in London
Netlaw Media has announced Nick Freeman, Britain`s leading celebrity defence lawyer and the most cited solicitor in the UK press as this year’s Keynote Speaker at the ‘Key strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ conference taking place in London on the 18th May 2011.
Famously nicknamed `Mr Loophole` by the British media, Nick earned his soubriquet thanks to his unparalleled ability to secure acquittals for his clients based on intricate legal technicalities. Following a string of successful high profile cases, Nick was forced to trademark ‘Mr Loophole’ to prevent others cashing in on his name and success.
As founder of the Manchester based legal practice Freeman & Co, Nick’s celebrity clients range from actors and sporting heroes to pop stars and captains of industry including Jimmy Carr, Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Jeremy Clarkson, Colin Montgomerie, Dwight Yorke and Ronnie O`Sullivan.
“It truly is a pleasure to confirm Nick as this year’s Keynote Speaker for Key Strategies for law Firms” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media. “With this year’s conference theme focusing on Driving Business Development in Law Firms, we felt that Nick highlights what can be achieved by lawyers and law firms who wish to be seen as leaders in their fields of expertise. Nick truly is a rare individual in the legal sector, who by combining his success in the courts with a long list of high profile clients and constant media attention was named as the year’s ‘highest profile solicitor’ by Sweet & Maxwell after he featured in 120 UK national press articles during 2010. We are delighted that Nick has accepted our invitation to keynote the event” Anderson continued “and with Nick speaking on his personal experiences of creating and maximising a public profile, as well as how lawyers and law firms can create a unique brand by raising their profiles in the media, we are extremely confident of reaching full capacity weeks before the event takes place”.
With Netlaw Media producing some of the highest attended law conferences and events in Europe, ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business Development in Law Firms’ promises to be one of the most important development events for law firms during 2011. Taking place at the Hotel Russell, London on the 18th May 2011, the event will bring together a range of highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial worlds to assist law firms improve overall business development and market share.
Following capacity sell outs of all previous ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms’ events produced by Netlaw Media, this leading one day law conference will examine and explore a wide range of business development strategies, methodologies and techniques designed to expand the client portfolios of law firms which are seeking to evolve in an age of change and opportunity.
Speakers for this year’s ‘Key Strategies for Law firms 2011’ include: Nick Freeman – Freeman & Co, Prof. Stephen Mayson – Legal Services Institute at the College of Law, Kevin Green – IBM United Kingdom, John Young – Hogan Lovells International LLP, Charles Christian – Legal Technology Insider, Mark Soundy – Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Keith Liddiard – Centre for High Performance Development / Netlaw Edge, Neil Kinsella – Russell Jones & Walker, Emma Shipp – Sprecher Grier Halberstam, Elliot Moss – Mishcon de Reya, Tamara Box – Berwin Leighton Paisner, Craig Holt – Quality Solicitors, Guy Barnett – Blakemores / Lawyers2you, Gary Yantin – Highstreet lawyer.com, Chrissie Lightfoot – The Entrepreneur Lawyer, Julia Payne – Netlaw Edge, Chris Marston – Lloyds TSB Commercial, Will Kintish – Kintish, Julian Summerhayes and more…
With ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011’ expected to be Netlaw Media’s 5th consecutive major law event sell out, delegates are urged to register early as tickets for the event are limited.
Early Bird discount passes are now on sale at £349 + vat with further discounts for group bookings. To register tickets for the event, contact Netlaw Media at lawevents@netlawmedia.com or visit www.netlawmedia.com or www.solicitorsblog.com for more information.
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24/1/11 – Law Blogging Website Solicitorsblog.com reaches New Heights by Announcing its 100th Contributor in Less than 16 Weeks
Solicitorsblog.com continues to reach new heights by announcing today that it has accepted its 100th contributor to the website in less than 16 weeks since launch.
The law blogging website which was only recently launched by Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham in London continues to grow at a staggering rate to now display one of the largest collections of law related blog posts and news articles on the World Wide Web.
“We are delighted with the response the legal community has given Solicitorsblog.com” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media and creator of Solicitorsblog.com. “To accept our 100th contributor in less than 4 months is a milestone which we are all very excited about and with over 50,000 page hits a month rising considerably week on week, we certainly feel the site is becoming widely ingrained within the world of legal blogging and the community who use the site as a unique reference tool”.
Solicitorsblog.com now houses over 22,000 individual blog and news posts from around the world with a list of well known contributors reading like the who’s who of legal blogging including Access to Justice, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP, Binary Law, Black & LoBello, Bloody Relations, Charles Christian, Clutton Cox Blog , ConveyanceLink , Corporate Law and Governance, CRITique, Dallas Appellate Lawyer, Defero Law, Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Digging the Dirt, Employment Law Blog, Fair Competition Law, Family Law Week Blog, Farleys Solicitors, Forde Campbell LLP, Human Rights TV, IConstruction Lawyer’s blog, Ince & Co, Inforrm’s Blog, Inksters Give, InsideLegal, IPso Jure, John Flood, Julian Summerhayes, motleybarrister, Kravitz & Guerra, Lanyon Bowdler, Law Actually, Law Cloud Computing, Lawyer Watch, Legal Action Group, Legal Edge, Legal Futures, Legal Intangibles, LPC Trainee, Margary & Miller, Marsden Rawsthorn, Martin Searle Solicitors, Medical Records, Michael Scutt, Migrants Rights Network, My Legal Fiction, Nevada Legal Updates, Online Jury Research Update, Paralegal Hell, Personal Injury Mediation Blog, piBlawg, Pinsent Masons, Reconstructing Law School, Shear on Social Media Law, Shoosmiths, Simon Barrow, Simon Bory, The Bright Spark, The Jury Box Blog, The Orange Rag, Thompsons Personal Injury Solicitors, UK Human Rights Blog, UnitedLex, VG Charles & Co, WardblawG, Watching the Connectives, White Rabbit, Work / Life / Law and Work Product.
And who has helped achieve this milestone by becoming the 100th contributor of Solicitorsblog.com, the prize goes to law:/dev/null, a law blog written by T. Greg Doucette, a Computer Scientist turned Law Student at the North Carolina Central University, USA.
For more information on submitting your law blog to Solicitorsblog.com – visit http://www.solicitorsblog.com or http://www.netlawmedia.com.
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16/12/10 – Solicitorsblog.com – The law blogging website that has taken the legal sector by storm
Recently in London, ex-head of UK Trade and Investment Lord Digby Jones launched Solicitorsblog.com where he proclaimed the website to be soon ‘one of the largest information portals for the global legal sector’.
In ten weeks since launch, Solicitorsblog.com has become one of the biggest law blogging websites on the internet with over 19,000 blogs posts, articles and news pieces being submitted to the site from around the world.
Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media and creator of Solicitorsblog.com explains “The idea behind Solicitorsblog.com took place approximately five years ago when we were discussing an article in a UK law publication that was extremely bias and delivered the wrong message. During discussions which followed, we realised that what we were reading in many cases was the view of an individual who was employed by a publisher, who typically did not have any experience of working in the law or for a law firm. When we sat down to investigate further, it soon become apparent that there was better quality content being written by law bloggers with professional knowledge and experience which was being over looked by the sector.
From the weeks of research that followed, we quickly realised the information written by bloggers was not seeing the light of day as these blogs were generally posted on a page within their firms websites, or were difficult to find as they were buried deep within search listings.
What we began to recognise is that a blog hidden on page 78 of a major search engine may well contain vital information that could lead to a major change in the sector, the way a law firm runs as a business or even a landmark decision. The idea was then to design a dedicated platform which allowed law bloggers the opportunity to have their voices heard, and more so, the opportunity to see their hard work displayed on the front page of a reputable website whether they were a well known lawyer from an international law firm, or a student studying his or her degree.
One of the most important factors of the site is that we want to promote freedom of speech and information sharing, and to do this, we will never charge visitors to view the site or contributors to display their content, and only display information once a blogger has given the consent for the information to be included. In return, we offer the blogger an opportunity for their work to be seen by a large international audience where we display the heading of an individual blog post and two to three lines of content and once a visitor clicks to read more, the visitor is then directed to the bloggers website where they are free to read the post and continue to explore other parts of the bloggers site”.
Since launching Solicitorsblog.com, contributors to the site have reported increases in traffic by up to 18% and with a growing list of well known contributors such as John Flood, Michael Scutt, The White Rabbit, Paralegal Hell and Law Actually submitting to the site, Solicitorsblog.com will soon be the largest information portal for the global legal community that Lord Jones proclaimed it would.
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15/12/10 – Key strategies for Law Firms 2011 – Driving Business development in Law Firms’
Following a ‘Sold Out’ series in 2009 which accommodated a capacity delegation of senior representatives from over 230 Law Firms, Corporate Legal Departments and Associations, Netlaw Media has announced the biennial ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms’ law conference will return to London, United Kingdom on the 18th May 2011.
“With one of the UK’s best known law personalities expected to be announced as the event keynote speaker in early January, the 2011 return of Netlaw Media’s flagship event will coincide with some of the biggest changes to the sector since the inception of the profession” said Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media. “With the induction of alternative business structures coming into effect, combined with the fact that law firms must improve their brand and business development strategies, the upcoming Key Strategies event will focus on driving business development in law firms and will explore a range of proven formulas to expand revenue streams and client portfolios, whilst elevating employee development skills and law firm branding”.
“In 2009 when we last presented Key Strategies for Law Firms, the event educated law firm management on how to survive a recession and attracted capacity audiences at all 3 locations where the event was held” said Anderson, “and as we are now out of recession, we have found that pro-active law firms are seeking to explore initiative ways to increase business by adopting new strategies to attract and retain clients. The 2011 key strategies event will bring together experts to demonstrate how law firms’ can increase their client portfolios by examining a range of topics from branding and pricing models to adopting a strong public relations, media and social media presence”.
With the events keynote speaker to be announced soon, a pre-event sell out of Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011 is fully anticipated by the organisers. Netlaw Media has a tradition of attracting capacity audiences to its major events and recently posted a sell out of one of the biggest law management conferences in the UK. By combining the right mix of speakers with well timed topics of high importance, the Chancery Lane based Netlaw Media has quickly adopted the title as one of Europe’s finest law event organisers and expects the 2011 Key Strategies event to be its 5th major conference sell out in succession. The return of this leading law event will bring together highly respected professionals from both the legal and commercial sectors to examine and explore a wide range of business development methodologies and techniques proven to increase business in law firms who are seeking to evolve in this age of change and opportunity – a must attend event for all law firm management.
Confirmed speakers scheduled to appear at ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011’ include
- Prof Stephen Mayson – Director – Legal Services Institute at the College of Law
- Charles Christian – CEO – Legal Technology Insider
- Craig Holt – CEO – Quality Solicitors
- John Young – Co-Chairman – Hogan Lovells International LLP
- Neil Kinsella – CEO / Managing Partner – Russell Jones & Walker
- Emma Shipp – Managing Partner – Sprecher Grier Halberstan
- Elliot Moss – Business Development & Marketing Director – Mischon de Reya
- Tamara Box – Partner / Head of international Structured Finance – Berwin Leighton Paisner
- Guy Barnett – Managing Partner – Blakemores / CEO – Lawyers2you
- Chrissie Lightfoot – CEO – The Entrepreneur Lawyer
- Gary Yantin – Managing Director – High Street Lawyer.com
- David Clarkson – Commercial Director – Osmosis
- More Speakers and Panellists to be Announced Soon
Tickets for ‘Key Strategies for Law Firms 2011’ are scheduled to go on sale from early January 2011 with full day delegate passes priced at £399 + vat with discounts for early bird and group bookings. To pre-register for tickets to the event, contact Netlaw Media at lawevents@netlawmedia.com or visit www.netlawmedia.com or www.solicitorsblog.com for more information.
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30/09/10 – Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham Officially Launches Solicitorsblog.com
in London….
Following 5 years development, Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham officially launched Netlaw Media’s Global Information portal ‘Solicitorsblog.com’ in front of a capacity audience of law firm CEO’s, Managing Partners and Senior Partners at The Strategic Leadership Forum 2010 on the 30th September 2010 in London.
During Lord Jones’s presentation, The ex-former UK Trade Minister and ex-head of the CBI described the law portal as “one of world largest collections of law information on the world wide web” and proclaimed the website to be “a one stop shop for legal information for the legal community” before handing the presentation over to Netlaw Media’s Managing Director, Frances Anderson and Sales Manager, Adrian Williams who gave the audience an in-depth rundown of the site and benefits for lawyers, law firms and service providers.
Following the official launch, Frances Anderson said “we are delighted that Lord Digby Jones has officially launched the site at an event of this level. Netlaw Media has been working on the site for several years now and to have a leading figure such as Lord Digby Jones not only to launch, but urge the delegation to be involved with the site , shows that there is a demand for a site such as Solicitorsblog.com’. Anderson continued ‘Solicitorsblog.com is a revolutionary information portal with the potential to reach every lawyer, law firm, counsel, legal department, student and trainee from every country, disciplines and career level within the global legal and business communities. The site has been designed with both the user and contributor in mind and will display one of the world’s largest collections of law information, events, services and directories, whilst promoting the fundamentals of freedom of speech, interaction and information sharing”.
Solicitorsblog.com offers unrestrictive, free legal information from around the world with users offered the opportunity to submit their own information on a dedicated platform to share individual thoughts and experiences with a global audience and Netlaw Media are expecting a big future for the site. Adrian Williams of Netlaw Media said ‘we and are hoping to secure over half a million hits a month within the first year of launching the website to the global legal sector and after receiving extremely positive early feedback from the legal sector we are certain to change the way the sector shares information. Our goal is to be the largest provider of legal information on the internet within the next 3 years”.
Solicitorsblog.com is now live on the World Wide Web and can be viewed at www.solicitorsblog.com
For more information, please contact Netlaw Media on +44 (0)20 3176 4200
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13/09/10 – Netlaw Media’s upcoming Law Management Event Sells Out (again)….
Leading UK legal event and training organiser Netlaw Media, has today announced that its ‘Grand Masters of Law – Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ has reached a capacity sell out several weeks before the event takes place in London on 30th September 2010.
With over 140 law firms, chambers and corporates converging in London for the event, the leadership forum is one of UK’s largest senior law management events of 2010 and promises to be anything but the standard run of the mill lawyers conference. Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media said “We are delighted to post another sold out notice for this particular event. I personally feel that the sell out of the Strategic Leadership Forum is contributed to three main areas, the event program, the level and credibility of the event speakers and the team at Netlaw Media. When we began to put the event together in late 2009, we wanted to offer the legal sector a unique event that not only offers the best known legal and commercial speakers such as Lord Digby Jones, but also a range of information that law firms require in the current market and with over 140 booked to attend, we feel we have certainly achieved our goal”.
Since establishing in 2008, Netlaw Media has a delivered a constant string of sold out events and with this the fourth consecutive major event to reach capacity since 2009, all eyes are on the Chancery Lane organisers.
This year’s leadership forum has been produced in conjunction with Professor Stephen Mayson of the College of Law and promises to be one of the highlights on the UK legal calendar for 2010. Speakers presenting at the Strategic Leadership Forum 2010 include Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham, Professor Stephen Mayson, Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC, Des Hudson of the Law Society of England & Wales, Stephen Hockman QC and Barry Naisbitt of Santander who will deliver presentations and case studies to assist law firms increase overall performance.
Although this year’s ‘Strategic Leadership Forum’ has reached a capacity sell out, the legal sector will have other opportunities to attend Netlaw Media events with a 2011 program to be announced soon, and with over 27,000 Twitter followers worldwide and Lord Digby Jones launching Netlaw Media’s information portal for the global legal sector, it will not be long before the world has an opportunity to experience the Netlaw Media phenomenon.
For more Information on forth coming events or services that Netlaw Media provide please contact enquiries@netlawmedia.com or Telephone: 020 3176 4200.
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02/08/10 – Association of Women Solicitors Announced as Event Partner of Netlaw Media…………..
Netlaw Media is pleased to announce that The Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) has been confirmed as an Event Partner of the forthcoming conference ‘The Grand Masters of Law – Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’.
Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media said “We are delighted to have the AWS as an event partner for this conference. The AWS has been instrumental in representing the views of women solicitors in the legal profession and is an essential network which provides not just support but also a voice for change for women in the profession in a challenging and ever changing legal environment”.
Christl Hughes, Chairwoman of the AWS said “The Association of Women Solicitors is delighted to be partnering the Strategic Leadership Forum 2010 emphasising and explaining key management and leadership techniques within the legal profession as part of our work towards increasing the number of women solicitors in senior managerial positions”.
Taking place at the 5 star deluxe Grange St Paul’s Hotel London on the 30th September 2010, this year’s ‘Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ will attract a capacity audience of CEO’s, Managing Partners, Senior Partners, Counsel and Department Heads from UK and International Law Firms, Barristers’ Chambers and Corporate & Public Legal Departments. With over 80% of seats now reserved, the one law day event will bring together senior representatives from over 130 law firms, chambers and corporate legal departments to witness a wide range of leadership focused presentations to assist both current and future leaders sustain firm and departmental growth, profitability and productivity.
Speakers for ‘The Grand Masters of Law – Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ include:
Speakers include: Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham, Professor Stephen Mayson – Legal Services Policy Institute / College of Law, Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC – Commissioner for Public Appointments, Des Hudson, Law Society of England & Wales, Timothy Dutton QC – Fountain Court, Trevor Faure – Ernst & Young, Barry Naisbitt – Santander UK as well as presenters from LexisNexis, Linklaters, DLA Piper, Slaughter and May, DMH Stallard, Stephenson Harwood, Bird and Bird, Field Fisher Waterhouse, The Legal Sector Alliance, Lloyds TSB Commercial, Wilkinson Read, People in Business, Execution Noble, National Outsourcing Association, Deloitte and more…
Delegate Passes for this year’s event are £499 + vat (single) or £399 + vat (per delegate for two or more) and includes the conference, workshops, one to one sessions, exhibitions, welcome breakfast, buffet lunch, refreshments, post event drinks reception, all conference material and 5.5 hours CPD.
For more information and delegate registrations visit www.netlawmedia.com or Telephone: +44 (0)20 3176 4200
For more information on the AWS and for membership enquiries please contact: judith.mcdermott@lawsociety.org.uk or visit www.womensolicitors.org.uk
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12/07/10 – CEO of the Law Society Announced as a Speaker at ‘The Grand Masters of Law – Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ …..
Netlaw Media is pleased to announce that Des Hudson the CEO of The Law Society for England & Wales will be speaking at the Grand Masters of Law – The Strategic Leadership Forum 2010 covering Regulation & forthcoming Changes within the Legal Sector.
Frances Anderson, Managing Director of Netlaw Media said “We are delighted to welcome Des Hudson as a speaker at the Grand Masters of Law. Des Hudson brings a substantial insight into the forth coming regulationary changes that will be affecting the legal sector over the next 12 – 18 months, Des’s addition to the speaker line up adds further strength to the event which is already one of Europe’s most attended one day law events for senior law firm management”.
Taking place at the 5 star deluxe ‘Grange St Paul’s Hotel’, London on the 30th September 2010, this year’s ‘Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ will attract a capacity audience of CEO’s, Managing Partners’, Senior Partners’, Counsels’ and Department Heads’ from UK and International Law Firms’, Barristers’ Chambers and Corporate & Public Legal Departments’. With over 80% of seats now reserved, the one law day event will bring together senior representatives from over 130 law firms, chambers and corporate legal departments to witness a wide range of leadership focused presentations to assist both current and future leaders sustain firm and departmental growth, profitability and productivity.
Speakers for ‘The Grand Masters of Law – Strategic Leadership Forum 2010’ include:
Speakers include: Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham, Professor Stephen Mayson – Legal Services Policy Institute / College of Law, Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC – Commissioner for Public Appointments, Des Hudson, Law Society of England & Wales, Timothy Dutton QC – Fountain Court, Trevor Faure – Ernst & Young, Barry Naisbitt – Santander UK as well as presenters from LexisNexis, Linklaters, DLA Piper, Slaughter and May, DMH Stallard, Stephenson Harwood, Bird and Bird, Field Fisher Waterhouse, The Legal Sector Alliance, Lloyds TSB Commercial, Wilkinson Read, People in Business, Execution Noble, National Outsourcing Association, Deloitte and more…
Delegate Passes for this year’s event are £499 + vat (single) or £399 + vat (per delegate for two or more) and includes the conference, workshops, one to one sessions, exhibitions, welcome breakfast, buffet lunch, refreshments, post event drinks reception, all conference material and 5.5 hours CPD.
With the event on a verge of a complete sell out, law firms are urged to register their management teams as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
For more information and delegate registrations visit www.netlawmedia.com or Telephone: +44 (0)20 3176 4200
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24/07/09 – Key Strategies for law Firms during a Downturn………..
Following the early sell out in London of Key Strategies for law Firms during a Downturn, Netlaw Media has announced the dates for the Manchester and Bristol legs of the event in October 2009.
The well timed London event in June of 2009 was held to a capacity audience of visiting CEO’s, Managing Partners, Solicitors and senior representatives from law firms ranging from top 10 city law firms to a range of small and mid sized regional based firms of all sizes. Focusing upon a wide range of strategic information, the event provided presentations and case studies that went far beyond retaining profit and flowed into cost reduction and environment sustainability issues that can easily be followed to deliver cost reductions of tens of thousands of pounds on a yearly basis.
The one day conference hosted well known industry speakers such as Prof Stephen Mayson, Alan Hodgart, Rupert Kendrick, Barry Wilkinson, Peter Warner, Tim Aspinall (DMH Stallard), Mike Gannaway (Denton Wilde Sapte), Elaine Radford (DLA Piper / Legal Sector Alliance) as well as senior representatives from both Lloyds TSB and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
“The aim of this series of events is to provide law firms of all sizes with information to overcome recession related issues that firms are currently experiencing” said Frances Anderson, Founding Director of Netlaw Media. “One of the highlights of constructing this event was the speakers who understood our aim and volunteered their time to help construct one of the most informative law conferences of the year. The end goal of this series of events” continued Anderson “is to deliver a wide range of information that not only helps law firms stay ahead of the recession, but more importantly to help secure the jobs of the thousands of employees who’s families rely on these firms’ to keep their doors open”.
Nick Holmes of Infolaw, one of the UK’s most respected on-line legal publications writes “Delivering the Keynote, Prof Stephen Mayson summed up the challenges. Not only is the legal profession facing severe recession, but it faces an increasing erosion of its dominance of the legal services market as “non-reserved” activities are increasingly more efficiently being delivered by alternative providers like AA Legal Services, The Co-operative Legal Services and the government itself via the Legal Services Commission and DirectGov. The outlook is bleak though smaller firms may face such competition through alliances such as the Legal Alliance and Quality Solicitors. To better serve clients demanding ever better value firms must abandon time-based billing and reduce overcapacity – not just too many people, but people doing the wrong jobs.”
Following the success of the London date, the one day conference will be visiting Bristol on the 14th October 2009 and Manchester on the 20th October 2009. Topics that will be covered during the day will include strategies for retaining profit during a recession, cost reduction, business development, cash flow, raising capital, restructuring, risk and compliance and practice management.
At each event, two panel discussions will be taking place, ‘restructuring and are the strategies working’ with Prof Stephen Mayson and also ‘the financial challenges and how law firms can prepare for a deepening recession’ where senior representatives of both Lloyds TSB and The Royal bank of Scotland will be answering open questions from the delegation.
In addition to speaker presentations and case studies, the event will also give delegates the opportunity to join one of five interactive ‘round table’ workshops, a series of one to one confidential meetings with leading strategists’ and advisors’ to discuss problem areas and several networking opportunities with senior representatives from a large range of law firms and associations.
The price of the delegate pass includes – speaker presentations, panel discussions, workshops, a series of one to one meetings, exhibitions, networking, coffee and snack breaks, hot buffet lunch, drinks reception and 5 hours accredited CPD.
Delegate passes for the event are strictly limited with an early sell out fully anticipated
Who Should Attend – C.E.O’s, Managing Partners, Senior Partners, Directors, Finance Directors, H.R Directors, Practice Managers, Solicitors and Heads of Departments.
For delegate information and registrations visit www.netlawmedia.com or telephone Netlaw Media on +44 (0)20 3176 4200
