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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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interviews and discussions | The
College of Law
16 November 2009
Interview discussing the future of the
legal profession and the legal landscape following the opportunities for alternate
business structures and the opportunities for young lawyers coming into the profession
over the next few years.
Listen | | | THE
TIMES
21 May 2009 - Legal Services Act Focus Report
'Shake-out means
trouble ahead'
Article | | | Brookers
New Zealand
April 2009 -
The Business of Law 2009
contributing Author
Listen
to the discussion on 'the business of law behind todays legal profession'.
(link in yellow highlighted box) | | |
Radio 4
27 January 2009
'A World Without Lawyers'
Listen
also here | | |
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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
(including the Legal Service Act). |
| 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. | | Law
Firm Strategy: Competitive Advantage and Valuation |
|
| Making
Sense of Law Firms | | 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published in 1997 - and some parts have been superseded by Law Firm Strategy -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. |
| 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. | | Making
Sense of Law Firms |
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| Managing
the Modern Law Firm | |
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. | | 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. |
| Managing
the Modern Law Firm |
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| Finance
Simulation | | 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. |
| The
simulation has been used to great effect in strategic and financial analysis,
and as a training tool. | | Finance
Simulation
Enquiries
to: info@mayson.co.uk |
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