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Marketing basics

In marketing, like anything, you need to get the basics right. Otherwise the time and money you invest in marketing will be wasted

Winning more clients

How to win new clients, make the most of existing relationships, encourage referrals and generate new leads

Your website

How to approach creating a law firm website that works, from agreeing your objectives to making sure you get the results you want

Social media

Why lawyers need to know about social media, how to make the most of the opportunities and how to avoid potential pitfalls

PR and advertising

How to use PR to build your firm’s reputation; and how to create cost-effective advertising – traditional and online – that delivers results

Cyber security

How to protect your law firm from cyber attacks. What steps to take if your systems are hacked

Finance and accounting

How to set up your firm’s systems to provide the information that enables you to improve profitability and cashflow

Compliance

This is a new section and only covers SRA Accounts Rules and GDPR at the moment. More articles will follow

Strategy

This section covers succession, specialisation, mergers, selling a law firm, recruitment and talent retention, becoming a partner, and business structure

ICO infographic on legal sector data incidents

The Information Commissioner's Office is the authoritative source of information on GDPR and data compliance generally. This infographic summarises the data security incidents relating to solicitors and barristers reported to the ICO in 2015/16, well before GDPR. While it is the big online data breaches that make the news, the infographic shows that in the case of law firms it was mislaid (or missent) printed material that was often the cause of the breach.

Infographic summarising the data security incidents relating to solicitors and barristers >>