Beth Pipe, FCIPD

This Precedent questionnaire can be completed by managers and partners to help identify unconscious bias. The findings should raise awareness of unconscious bias within your firm and can be used to stimulate discussion around diversity and inclusion (D&I).

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used to help you plan and prepare for an attendance review meeting (ARM) and to ensure you have all the information you need to conduct an ARM consistently and effectively.

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended for law firms. It can be used to document the key points discussed during an attendance review meeting (ARM). It will help you ensure a consistent and structured approach to all ARMs.

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, is intended to accompany a letter notifying an employee of an attendance review meeting. Periodic attendance review meetings are an integral part of managing long-term sickness where an employee has been absent from work for an extended period of time (usually more than four–weeks’ duration).

This Precedent Balanced scorecard: partnership promotion criteria, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, can be used to help assess whether an individual meets your firm’s partnership promotion criteria and can therefore be considered for partnership. It offers a holistic approach to leadership development and ensures you consider both quantitative and qualitative measures.

This Precedent Business asset register can be used to record all the assets an organisation owns, eg land, buildings, office equipment, manufacturing equipment, computer software, intellectual property, trademarks etc. Maintaining such a register will help an organisation formulate long- and short-term plans, prevent fraud, comply with any maintenance or servicing requirements and save costs.

This Precedent claims register can be used to keep a record of any ongoing claims against the business and keep track of your litigation risks. You might wish to consider adding to a separate risk register any individual or aggregated claims that could pose a risk to the business, eg due to value or the potential for reputational damage.

This Precedent Compliance breach register is designed to help you keep a record of compliance breaches in your organisation. The register forms part of our risk management suite of documents. You should consider adding to your separate risk register any compliance breaches that could pose a risk to the business, either individually or as a pattern or trend.

This Precedent framework is intended for law firms. It sets out suggested core skills that apply to each role within the firm. Having a central framework of core skills helps to achieve transparency and consistency in our expectations of performance for different roles within the firm. Where relevant, this Precedent reflects the SRA’s Competence Statement.

This Precedent role profile is for a diversity & inclusion (D&I) manager in a law firm. This role profile follows the format of the other role profile Precedents in subtopic: Recruitment and retention.

This Precedent action plan can be used to set out what a law firm wants to achieve from a diversity and inclusion (D&I) perspective and how each objective will be achieved, by whom and by when. These objectives should support the firm’s overall strategy and objectives.

This Precedent can be used to document a law firm’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) objectives, firm-wide or individual key performance indicators (KPIs) for partners and the management team and track progress against targets.

This Precedent Diversity and inclusion (D&I) statement can be used by a law firm to publicly express its commitment to D&I.

This Precedent self-assessment form can be used by a firm to capture detailed diversity and inclusion (D&I) data across a number of different measures, focusing on gender balance and maternity, paternity or adoption leave analysis. This data will provide a firm with insight and enable benchmarks to be set and progress to be monitored over a period of time.

This Precedent Emotional intelligence—summary sheet, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe of OnLive Learning, gives a high-level summary of five key leadership attributes that enable leaders to get the best out of themselves and their teams and makes suggestions about how to develop skills in these areas.

This Precedent, produced in partnership with Beth Pipe, can be used as a guide for developing an absence management strategy for your firm. It has been populated with sample responses.

This Precedent Identifying waste questionnaire can be used to help you identify process inefficiencies or bottlenecks across your firm, consider the scale of the issues identified and prioritise them for action.

This Precedent provides a worked example of an improving efficiency business case and forms part of the supporting toolset available within the Continuous Improvement subtopic. A separate blank version of this Precedent is also available within this subtopic which can be used to prepare a business case for a project to improve efficiency in a particular area of your business.

This Precedent provides a worked example relating to a hypothetical in-house legal department that wishes to make changes to improve its contract drafting process. By using the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) framework for improving efficiency, a range of solutions has been identified, including clarifying the process and reviewing how documents are stored in order to minimise the need for internal clients to call the administrative assistants to chase for information. This case study scenario looks at how to implement and embed that specific change only.

This Precedent will help you identify and deal with issues around making and implementing change across your department. It considers the different stages involved in making a change and suggests questions you should consider in relation to each one. A worked example of this Precedent is also available.