Intendance Awards announce the winners and losers among law firms' websites for 2008 (PSMG - 2nd May 2008)
The Intendance Fast 50 winners were announced at last night’s Intendance Awards at Quadrant Chambers in London. Guest of honour, Cherie Booth QC, presented the overall winner Allen & Overy with their award. The report is the industry-standard benchmark for law firms’ websites, and has been split into three parts this year to reflect its growing remit. … to find out more click here

Law firm website winners and losers (Legal Technology Insider - 2nd May 2008)
Last night, the website and online services consultancy Intendance held its annual awards at Quadrant Chambers in London. Guest of honour, Cherie Booth QC, presented the overall winner Allen & Overy with their award. The event coincided with the publication of the latest Intendance Fast 50 survey, which subjects the websites of Britain’s 50 most successful law firms to rigorous scrutiny in four categories – Content, Design, Usability and Marketing. ...to read more click here

The Water Cooler (Times Law Online - 29th April 2008)
Cherie Booth, QC, is still making the odd appearance on the legal reception circuit: on Monday night she presented the Intendance Awards for the best law firm websites for 2008....to read more click here

Law Firm Web Site Winners, and Losers (Computers & Law - 29th April 2008)
Intendance have announced the winners and losers among law firms’ Web sites for 2008.According to the latest survey by Intendance, the Web specialist for the professional services sector, Allen & Overy has the best Web site in the legal sector – the site most likely to win business. ...to read more click here

A&O has best website, poll finds (Legal Week - 29th April 2008)
Allen & Overy (A&O) is the law firm with the website most likely to win business, according to the findings of a new survey. The magic circle giant finished with the highest overall score in the Intendance Fast 50 annual survey ahead of Nabarro, Freeth Cartwright and Herbert Smith. The study rates the websites of the 50 fastest-growing UK law firms on criteria including content, usability, design and marketing potential... to read more click here

Withers site wins Intendance award (Law Gazette - 24th April 2008)
Law firms have improved their websites by adopting a ‘back-to-basics’ approach, according to web technology company Intendance – with City firm Withers showing the greatest improvement. Withers has won the ‘most improved website’ accolade in Intendance’s prestigious Fast 50 awards, the Gazette can reveal. The research looks at the websites of the 50 fastest-growing law firms....to read more click here

Cover feature: The seeds of change (Legal Marketing - 7 March 2008) 
It has dominated discussion in legal circles since the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) first alluded to the need for legal service reform in its 2001 Competition in the Professions report. Later when Sir David Clementi reiterated the demand for change in his 2004 paper, the discussion turned to debate as critics argued reform would jeopardise the industry and lower the standard of legal service delivery...to read more click here

Getting in on the Act (Law Gazette - 21 February 2008)
To see how the Legal Services Act will affect law firms, we should look outside the legal world, and even the country, says James Tuke. Recent media coverage of October’s Legal Services Act (LSA) has been more of a trickle of possible developments, rather than a stream of definite alternative business structure...to read more click here

Net that student (Legal Week - 10 January 2008)
In the world of legal business, law firms are recognised by certain characteristics that observers perceive as being synonymous with them. People recall a firm from their perception of it — think litigation, think Herbert Smith — resulting in an image or brand that can be difficult to control. Reputations are formed, talked about, enhanced, damaged, consolidated...to read more click here

Recruiting for the future ( The Lawyer - 3 January 2008)
A good website is now vital for attracting the best graduates. Recruitment, in particular graduate recruitment, is a very different beast to what it was a decade ago. Today’s graduates are the first for whom the internet is synonymous with their lifestyles.To keep up with these changes, many law firms have invested heavily in their websites...to read more click here

Online time recording for barristers (Legal Technology Insider - November 2007)
Intendance (020 7242 7160) best known for its research and consultancy work in the law firm website space, has launched an online time recording service for barristers practicing in England & Wales. Called BarTime (and based on technology developed by Clicktime Inc in the United States) this is a hosted system that allows barristers to log time and expenses from anywhere with an internet link...to read more click here

Intendance - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) white paper (Cityzone - 24 September 2007)
Many organisations publish Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) information online, but only some of these organisations truly communicate - rather than just report - their activities. The Intendance white paper 'Communicating - not just reporting - Corporate Social Responsibility: guidelines for a CSR microsite' establishes best practice guidelines for a CSR microsite...to read more click here

Web Site Recruitment: Are Law Firms Getting it Right? (Society for computers and Law - 16 October 2007)
Intendance, best known for their annual investigation into legal Web sites: 'Intendance Fast Fifty Solicitors' Websites 2007: Who is Winning and Why?, have revealed the findings of their survey of the graduate-focused web pages of top law firms...to read more click here

Making ‘good’ Even Better (The Barrister - 1 October 2007)
My report “A Strategic Review of Complaints and Disciplinary Processes of the Bar Standards Board” was published in July after nine months intensive work. It was welcomed by the Bar Standards Board,...to read more click here

Commercial Bar: Brave new world (Legalweek.com - 6 September 2007)
James Tuke takes a look at the effects that impending legislation may have on barristers. When it has finished weaving its circuitous route through a congested parliamentary process towards the end of 2007, the Legal Services Bill is likely to induce the most significant round of restructuring the legal profession has experienced in living memory...to read more click here

AIM new Rule 26: a website headache? (City Zone - 3 July 2007)
With the introduction of new Rule 26 the London Stock Exchange has promoted the website to the status of key reporting tool for AIM-listed companies. The new rule requires all AIM-listed companies to feature... to read more click here.

ABS drive is ‘threat’ to quality of advice (Law Society Gazette - 5 July 2007)
Legal professionals fear that alternative business structures (ABSs) – a key element of the Legal Services Bill – will compromise the quality of legal advice, according to a report to be published this week. The report, researched by Intendance and published by Sweet & Maxwell, includes a poll of high-ranking private practice lawyers, barristers, in-house counsel and non-lawyer managers…to read more click here

Management & IT: Make the most of the internet (Legal Week - 24 May 2007)
'Differentiate or Die’, marketing guru Jack Trout warned in the title of his seminal work on how to survive in ‘our era of killer competition’. Trout is more associated with putting consumer brands on the map than he is with making law firms stand out from the crowd, but many of the rules he establishes translate to the profession .…to read more click here

Survey reveals UK's best and worst legal websites (Times Online - 2 May 2007)
Addleshaw Goddard boasts the best website of any UK law firm according to an annual survey that names and shames the best – and worst – legal sites. The national firm scored 81 per cent to become the overall winner in this year’s report, that assessed the websites of the 50 fastest growing British law firms…to read more click here

National firms setting the pace with website awards (Law Society Gazette - 3 May 2007)
ONLINE: report claims that ‘interactivity is the coming thing’. National firms, rather than those from the City, have taken the top two places in Intendance’s annual Fast 50 law firm website report. Addleshaw Goddard and Wragge & Co beat City giants such as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons for having the best websites out of the fastest-growing law firms…to read more click here