August 2024

Data plan?

Do SME law firms have a good enough grip on their day-to-day data?

FEATURES

Information change

Lucy Trevelyan asks how firms can ensure their data is fit for purpose today — and transformed into an ever-greater business asset in the longer term

Set your people up for sustainable success

Pam Loch, co-chair of LPM conference 2024, says legal leaders must inspire and empower managers to address wellbeing in the round

The Ellisons Way

Guy Longhurst, managing partner at Ellisons, outlines key principles that have been embedded in the firm's organisational DNA over time

Data plans

Welcome to your LPM offering this August — and take a look at our legal business management menu below for everything in store!

As firms consider possible futures applying tools and transforming process with generative artificial intelligence, our cover story this month asks about the ingredients of a healthy data strategy to start the journey from the best possible place.

Then Pam Loch, founder of Loch Associates Group, has a view on how all firms should consider the business management factors fuelling ‘human sustainability’, and Guy Longhurst, managing partner at Ellisons, walks us through the ‘Ellisons Way’ — a route lined with principles designed such that everyone connected to the firm can win.

There are also highly practical perspectives on facing down the surging cyber threat from our issue partners (and specialists on the subject) PracticeEvolve and Quiss — while leading broker Lockton turns our attention to the connection between helping to handle/reduce stress levels and a healthy culture of well-managed risk and compliance. There is also a new case study on how Stowe Family Law steers its compliance course, as an ambitiously growing firm, with the support of a broad package offered by our friends at Access Legal.

Please do enjoy!