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My views
on specific issues relating to legal practice and legal services
market are available through various publications and papers.
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| Law
Firm Strategy: Competitive Advantage and Valuation |
My
latest book, Law Firm Strategy: Competitive Advantage
and Valuation, is published by Oxford University
Press in September 2007.
It brings together my current thinking on strategy,
and anticipates the implications of a world of new
competition, and of external ownership and investment,
heralded by developments in the legal marketplace
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The
book is organised into four parts:
1. The Emerging Landscape for Legal Services;
2. Strategy and Competitive Advantage;
3. Valuation and Legal Practice;
4. The Way Ahead. |
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Law
Firm Strategy: Competitive Advantage and Valuation
Further
details are available at: www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199231744
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| Making
Sense of Law Firms |
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Originating
from my time at Nottingham Law School,
this book was the first text in the field to combine
general management and other theory into a framework
for legal practice and applied in a practical
context to law firm management.
Although
published in 1997 - and some parts have been superseded
by Law Firm Strategy - it does nevertheless contain
much enduring material for those wishing to understand
the challenges of law firm management.
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The
book is organised into eight parts:
1. Law Firms as a Response to the Environment;
2. The Theory of the Law Firm;
3. Law Firms as Business Organisations;
4. Law Firms as Client-driven Organisations;
5. Law Firms as Social Organisations;
6. Law Firms as Economic Organisations;
7. Ownership of Law Firms;
8. The Way Ahead. |
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Making
Sense of Law Firms
Further details are available at: www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9781854317001 |
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| Managing
the Modern Law Firm |
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This
is an edited volume of chapters by a variety of
(predominantly) academic contributors. It presents
the latest insights from management studies in
an approachable, practical, and relevant manner
for lawyers and other professionals involved directly
and indirectly with the management of law firms.
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My
chapter examines the challenges of building sustainable
value for a law firm through the idea of various
forms of capital: financial, physical, human, social
and organisational. The ideas in this chapter are
much more fully developed in Law Firm Strategy. |
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Managing
the Modern Law Firm
Further details are available at: www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296743
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| Mayson,
French & Ryan on Company Law |
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A new
edition of this text is published every year.
The 24th edition, published in August 2007, incorporates
the Companies Act 2006
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Mayson,
French & Ryan on Company Law
Further details are available at: www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199210817
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| Finance
Simulation |
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To help
firms with analysing their profitability and financial
performance, I have developed a finance simulation.
It can be used to analyse budget versus actual
performance, to compare one financial year's performance
with another, or to model the effects of various
changes to the firm's structure or activity. In
addition to showing the financial outcome to the
firm's profit and loss account, the simulation
also shows a number of key performance indicators.
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The
simulation has been used to great effect in strategic
and financial analysis, and as a training tool. |
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Finance
Simulation
Enquiries to: info@mayson.co.uk |
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