Duncan Oglivy and Paul Longhurst
Jan 1, 2015
3Kites’ Brief Guide to Law Firm Mergers… and How to Make a Success of Them
Introduction A quick search for the term ‘Merger’ on the website of The Lawyer shows 342 results for 2010, rising through subsequent...
Melanie Farquharson
Jan 1, 2015
Management of Legal Work – Case Management, Matter Management and Legal Project Management
“The appetite for project management and process management tools and methods appears to be off the scale,” according to the recent Legal...
Melanie Farquharson
Oct 1, 2014
Zen and the art of good consulting
As consultants, what we do is to help law firms, in-house legal teams and other professional services organisations to find the best ways...
Melanie Farquharson
Oct 1, 2014
Adoption, training and change management - why lawyers don’t make use of the technology they have
Are any of the following scenarios familiar in your firm? Tables of financial data are created in Word and manual calculations carried...
Melanie Farquharson
Sep 1, 2013
Driving efficiency in law firms – delivering more for less
This article draws on the themes of a 3Kites seminar delivered in September 2013. Even though we appear to be coming out of the...
Melanie Farquharson
Feb 1, 2013
Are law firms serious about legal project management?
Last week I attended the Legaltech conference in New York. As has been the case for the last few years, much of the conference focused on...
Melanie Farquharson
Feb 1, 2013
Is Big Data the next big thing?*
Last week I attended the Legaltech conference in New York. As has been the case for the last few years, much of the conference focused on...
danielleleacock
Sep 1, 2012
Know how, intranets and SharePoint – where do we stand?
For several years it seemed that SharePoint was the answer, regardless of the question. Now that a number of law firms have used...
Melanie Farquharson and Paul Longhurst
Aug 1, 2012
Business Transformation in the Legal Sector – why is it so hard?
3Kites Consulting is setting up a networking forum at which the challenges of bringing about change in law firms will be discussed. This...
Melanie Farquharson
Jan 1, 2012
Effecting change in a law firm
A couple of months ago I wrote an article on the idea of the ‘green field’ law firm, considering how one might set up a law firm from...
