Whatever the reason for implementing knowledge management (KM) in your organisation you must have a clear understanding of the many factors that will affect its success as a project.

Become a leader in ensuring diversity and an example of best practice in establishing successful Women's Initiatives.

Proven tools and strategies to ensure your firm not only fulfils its ethical responsibilities, but also benefits from the value that a diverse and inclusive culture brings to your firm and your clients.

Managing Partner's new Balanced Scorecards for Law Firms report provides a vital introduction for firms wanting to know more about how the balanced scorecard can improve their own firm's performance.

Ark Group's new report Being a Successful Knowledge Leader by Arthur Shelley is written specifically to help you identify and develop the most talented, inspiring and successful knowledge leaders within your organisation. Leaders who can create self sustaining programmes that become part of the way you work, delivering continuous improvements in your communication, profitability, creativity, innovation and ultimately organisational performance.

An increase in the demand for professional, knowledgeable legal advice across the European Union is providing exciting opportunities for profit and expansion. Whether you’re just establishing your presence in Europe or looking to strengthen an existing operation Best Practice Strategies for European Law firms is an invaluable guide to the road ahead.

This invaluable new report is a step-by-step guide to ensuring partners and fee earners are fully equipped to deliver new business and maximise the value of existing clients.

This highly valuable report is written specifically to help you develop a business strategy that will not only sustain your law firm through tough economic times but make changes that will improve cost efficiency, productivity and client relationships.

The report aims to help you establish the root causes of existing cash management problems and set out a clear strategy that will not only reduce lock-up but enable you to seek out profit and business certainty in increasingly difficult times.

Coldrick on Care Home Fees is the most complete resource ever published on this subject. If you advise on this complex, challenging and ever changing area of the law, this 400 page publication is essential reading for you and your organisation.

A unique exploration of the legal obligations and the available investment options in relation to trustee investment.   

Competitive Intelligence for Law Firms is written specifically to help you formalise your approach to CI in the legal sector. It examines in-depth how to gather valuable information and turn it into actionable intelligence in the legal environment while avoiding the legal and ethical pitfalls.

This report is an in-depth exploration of recent developments, best practices and the tools and tactics that are helping forward-thinking firms devise and manage successful strategies that maximise the effectiveness of their CSR activities and guide their future direction.

A comprehensive guide to building an intranet that will meet the unique needs of your law firm.

A practical, how-to guide, packed with key strategies and realistic advice to help you prepare for and manage organisational crises.

Ensuring that your company has access to all of the information it requires when it requires it, and that your systems correctly identify and action any information that must be either retained, stored, or disposed of, can also have huge efficiency and compliance implications.

This report will help you achieve your key business goals more efficiently with KM. But more importantly it will ensure that knowledge management is much more cost-effective in order to secure its place as a vital and central part of your business processes.

Developing Strategic Client Relationships is a new report from Managing Partner that takes thinking on Client Relationship Management away from the IT consultancies to its true position as a crucial business development tool.

New Managing Partner report E-discovery, E-disclosure is designed specifically to assist you in formalising your firms approach to the disclosure of electronic documents.

Essential design and delivery tips for developing your own successful e-learning strategy.

E-mail Management offers a balanced viewpoint, presenting the best possible solutions to your e-mail management challenges.

Effective financial management that can facilitate sustained performance and competitive edge in an overcrowded marketplace requires not only the appointment of a highly capable finance director, but broader changes in behaviour and working processes among a firm’s lawyers, changes that touch on ingrained traditions, such as the chargeable/non-chargeable hour…

Ark Group's new Freedom of Information in the Public Sector report clarifies the grey areas of legislation and compliance issues and will provide you with case studies, strategies and processes for reviewing and developing successful FOI management schemes.

A critical new report that will help you deliver genuine increases in return for your online and offline marketing investment.

Tt is clear that managing the quality of your information is a key enabler to achieving success in any number of other strategic or operational objectives. Objectives including compliance with Statutory regulations (Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II being just two), the need to defend and grow market share in your industry and the day-to-day challenges of running a business.

A unique report providing a comprehensive and logical guide through each stage of the development process.

In-depth and practical research, providing comprehensive guidance on implementing a successful internal communications strategy, minimising the risk for your investment.

Implement an engaging intranet that meets your key business objectives and lays the basis for continued development.

Ark Group's new independent report is specifically focused on the development and management of an effective intranet and intranet strategy. It has been written for those involved in any capacity with the contribution to, or management of an intranet and offers readers the information and support they need to be a successful intranet manager.

Intranet Usability and Re-design is a unique resource that will guide you step-by-step through the tools, techniques, strategies and processes you need to ensure your intranet continues to develop, grow and improve with your organisation.

KM Culture provides an in-depth analysis of successful strategies for implementing a knowledge sharing culture.

The need for an effective risk management strategy has never been clearer. As Enron, Arthur Anderson and Merrill Lynch have fallen the professional and public worlds have woken to the real danger of unchecked risk.

A highly practical guide to managing knowledge and information assets to improve process, aid policy making and increase productivity.

Motivating and rewarding law firm professionals is a key topic for law firm management. The consequences and opportunity cost of not getting it right is increasingly a decider in meeting both business objectives around client service, and also the ability to manage profitability and margins.

With in-depth coverage of proven leadership styles and models, this report will provide you with the necessary tools to both implement an effective leadership development programme and measure it's success against your firms targets.

The Legal Services Act 2007 received royal assent on 30th October. The UK legal services market, already intensely competitive, is about to experience further competition from the business world. Effective outsourcing will be a crucial tool in coping with this change.

Effective time management techniques for lawyers to increase productivity, achieve greater success, manage work/life balance and ultimately boost profitability.

Making Knowledge Work is a unique, uncompromising examination of the practical considerations that influence the success of knowledge management (KM) in a corporate context.

Establish an effective records retention and disposal strategy in your firm that is integral to every business process.

In this new technologically-enabled landscape, and in the face of budgetary and staff cuts library and information services are expected to deliver greater value internally and externally and collaborate with other business support functions like never before.

Managing your Relationship with External Counsel is a step-by-step guide to making a success of the complex relationships between corporate legal departments and the law firms they choose to provide outside counsel services.

An important report which will provide you with the tools and strategies to demonstrate the ROI of your KM activities.

Combating money laundering and related terrorist financing is amongst the most significant risk management issues for law firms today, and for those partners or employees with compliance responsibility in particular. The considerable sanctions that can be meted out to firms or even individuals mean that this is an area of compliance you really cannot afford to get wrong.

Professionals, particularly those working within the legal sector, all find the need to negotiate on a daily basis with both internal and external clients, in a multitude of both personal and professional relationships. The Negotiation Skills for Lawyers Report identifies the key principles of effective negotiation, highlighting the different phases of negotiation and providing invaluable tips and techniques that can be employed to guarantee success.

This 290 page report focuses on nine knowledge professionals and the environments that allowed them to launch and manage some of the most exceptional knowledge based initiatives in the world.

This 240 page report looks to answer the key questions surrounding the ownership of knowledge and knowledge management within the organisation.

Benchmark your strategies and ensure you continue to deliver the services that are required while demonstrating your vital and integral role in how your organisation operates.

A step-by-step guide to preparing for and surviving an SRA Practice Standards Unit visit from receipt of the notification letter to the closing correspondence that marks the end of the process.

Pricing and Profitability for Law Firms is written by Michael Roch and analyses in depth the various tools, methodologies and strategies available to your law-firm for developing a successful and competitive pricing management system.

Professional Development Strategies for Law Firms is a new report published by Ark Group and Managing Partner magazine. Using up-to-date, real-world examples this important new report illustrates how a strategic approach to professional development is underpinning the success of forward-thinking firms and practitioners in the new dynamic legal environment.

The impact of poor communication is felt on the bottom line. From small everyday losses such as inefficiently searching for information, to huge losses such as not capturing the knowledge of departing staff, time is lost in countless ways.

Public Sector Intranets is a unique guide to the particular challenges faced by those who develop, implement and manage intranet sites for public sector organisations.

This essential guide offers best practice and practical advice on how to identify and mitigate the major risks facing law firms in North America today.

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with practical assistance with bringing or defending claims for personal injury arising out of road traffic, workplace and public liability accidents.

This essential report provides valuable information on the key applications available today in a straight forward, commercially relevant manner. Applications including Flickr, YouTube, Wordpress, Typepad, ooVoo, Libsyn, seesmic, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, MySpace, Meebo, Jaiku, Pownce, Second Life, there.com, Club Penguin, and Habbo Hotel, inter alia.

Acting as a road-map for those wanting direction and advice on an emerging and fast moving sector, this report will also provide tips and “how-to” advice that will benefit those new to the area, as well as those with experience in the field

Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition - will show you exactly how Twitter can work for your law firm and how it can quickly become an essential business development tool.

Achieve the cost savings, innovation and improved productivity for your firm that social networking and social tools promise to deliver.

Managing Partner’s hugely popular report on Strategic Marketing is now in its second edition. Completely revised and updated Strategic marketing in the legal profession contains powerful new content

Recognise new opportunities, gain insight from leading experts in the field, learn the right questions to ask and build successful legal outsourcing solutions based on industry precedents.

Cost effective methods that will help you save time, increase efficiency and dramatically improve the response of your organisation in the face of disaster.

Increasingly law firms are experiencing greater demands from their clients, be that in the form of value-added services or more flexible know-how advice and support. Now that the Legal Services Act 2007 has worked its way through Parliament, taking a more commercially-orientated approach which is very much client-driven is unarguably the smartest way to proceed.

An essential toolkit for anyone working in conveyancing who wishes to ensure his/her firm is not implicated in money laundering or mortgage fraud.

Implement key strategies proven to make e-mail use more efficient and effective and save your firm thousands in lost time and productivity.

The report features the sought-after views and predictions of renowned legal services specialists on how market trends and regulatory changes are currently shaping the future of legal services along with expert advice on how to tackle the foreseeable challenges and opportunities.

Essential techniques and tools for transforming your website into a best-practice business resource.

A guide to securing core knowledge and expertise in the legal profession

An unbiased look into strategies and techniques employed by successful women in today’s current workforce, the direct effects they have on their careers, and the impact they have on the organizations they work for.

Women’s Initiatives is designed to ensure your firm has the best possible advantage in recruiting, retaining and developing female lawyers. Drawing on case studies from top international firms Women’s Initiatives is able to offer a practical guide to developing a complete management strategy.