Shaun Jardine is the author of Ditch The Billable Hour! Implementing Value-Based Pricing in a Law Firm and Ditch & Switch: 50 Value-Based Pricing Examples for Law Professionals click the cover to learn moreclick the cover to learn more Now, we are delighted to announce Shaun's latest book, due in…
All In Your Head – Medical Gaslighting
Chosen excerpts from All In Your Head: What Happens When Your Doctor Doesn't Believe You? by Marcus Sedgwick. Marcus Sedgwick arrived in children's and young adult fiction with a bang. His debut novel Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001, and what followed was a body of work that…
Maura McAdam Book Signing in Dublin
Don't Wait for Permission — Come and Get It On Wednesday 22nd April, 6:30–7:30pm, the iconic Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin plays host to an evening with Professor Maura McAdam — one of the world's leading voices on women's entrepreneurship and, twice, a Stanford-ranked Top 2% most-cited scientist on the…
Startup Funding for Women Entrepreneurs
An extract from Chapter 6 of Permission Granted: A Call-to-Action Playbook for Women Entrepreneurs by Professor Maura McAdam. Published March 2026 Maura McAdam, PhD, is a professor, researcher, coach, and accredited NLP Master Practitioner. For over two decades, she has translated her globally recognised research on entrepreneurship and leadership into…
Who was Percy Shaw?
An extract from 40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers Percy Shaw: One for The Road Having a pub named after you is an aspiration for some people. Certainly, it’s not a bad epitaph. Nell Gwyn, Charlie Chaplin, John Fielding VC (of the Boer War’s Rorke’s Drift fame),…
Who was Charles F Kettering?
An extract from 40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers Charles F Kettering: The Second Edison At the beginning of the 20th century, motor cars were rudimentary in many ways. In 1900, when Theodore Roosevelt became the first US President to use one, he took extreme measures. He…
The Key Benefits Of Embracing Value-Based Pricing in Law Firms
Let’s be crystal clear about why you should choose to embrace VBP in your law firm. 1. Client-Centric Value Delivery VBP aligns pricing with client outcomes, not internal costs or time spent, because clients want results, not invoices itemising every six-minute increment. This approach builds stronger, more transparent relationships by…
The Ultimate Team Speedometer – Gross Margin
Simon McCrum is the author of The Perfect legal books trilogy... * * * * * In this excerpt from The Perfect Legal Business, Simon discusses the importance of gross margin to a law firm. * * * * * There is a universally recognised number that is used the…
Ditch & Switch: 50 Value-Based Pricing Examples for Law Professionals
Shaun Jardine, author of the acclaimed book Ditch The Billable Hour! Implementing Value-Based Pricing in a Law Firm, has a new book due this autumn. Entitled Ditch & Switch: 50 Value-Based Pricing Examples for Law Professionals, it builds upon the concepts of his first book to showcase examples of Value-Based…
Trilogy of Practical Books for Law Professionals Coming July 2025
[7 July 2025] Hawksmoor Publishing is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of three books for law professionals. Written by former Managing Partner Simon McCrum, The Perfect Lawyer, The Perfect Legal Business, and The Perfect Partner all aim to improve performance, decision-making, and client outcomes for lawyers and law firms…