Fifth Day: Promoting pro bono

Fifth Day is an advocacy initiative across the UK to promote and develop pro bono work by professional staff across law firms. Fifth Day was founded in 2022 by professional services communications expert Fred Banning. At the time, Fred explained: “In 2018, I applied...

Always learning

Most professional services firms have a rich variety of training and professional development options for their fee earners, but are they and should they be offering the same to their marketers and communications people? Writer and trainer James Lumley finds out what...

Budget Rock Stars

The government’s Autumn Budget gives accountants and lawyers the chance to be “rock stars” for the day. But what, asks Matt Baldwin, does a good Budget communications strategy look like? Budget Day, the annual fiscal set piece for the government, was greeted this year...

Are you listening?

‘How did I do?’ and ‘Could I have done any better?’ aren’t questions that most professional services partners ask out loud, too often. There are, however, an increasing number of professional services marketers asking just that. James Lumley meets the client...