Services & Credentials

Jomati is the leading UK-based international management consultancy specialising in the legal profession. Its consultants have held worldwide level senior roles in law firm management, as general counsel and as providers of financial analysis for law firms. Our advice is exclusive, tailored and discrete.

Jomati is able to provide a service around the world and has worked for clients in the UK, the Americas, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Our clients range from major international law firms to small, often first generation, independent firms and with legal departments ranging from hundreds of lawyers across multiple locations to a small team in one location. We also advise barristers' chambers including leading commercial sets and primarily publicly funded sets. We have a permanent research team. In addition, Tony Williams acts as a mediator in relation to partnership disputes and provides expert evidence in relation to law firms and partnership matters.

Jomati has a strategic alliance with Hildebrandt Consulting of the US to provide law firm and in-house legal department clients an unparalleled breadth and depth of service and expertise in relation to the global legal market.

Jomati’s approach is to utilise consultants with extensive, senior experience in law firms and in-house. Accordingly, we quickly understand the issues and provide clear and comprehensive advice that can be implemented. We know how to involve lawyers in any change process and to achieve their positive endorsement for action in what can be a profession resistant to change. By using senior consultants we are able to address the issues clearly and authoritatively. We focus on the key issues and practical solutions and tend to avoid voluminous reports just telling you what you told us. We have a strong research team so our advice is evidence based and tailored to the specific circumstances of the client.

By using small teams of experienced consultants we provide a cost effective and focussed service to our clients. Discretion is assured and we adopt lawyers' standards in relation to conflicts of interest and client confidentiality.

Typically, we work with senior and managing partners, leaders of chambers, heads of legal, practice area heads and support services directors.

For the law firms:

• Market analysis and strategy development including domestic and international office and practice area development
• Strategy implementation including acquisitions of teams, firm-level mergers and disposals of offices and practice areas
• Partnership structuring and LLP financing
• Management structures, partner performance, remuneration structures and business planning
• Client analysis and development including the creation and management of client relationship management programmes
• Improving profitability and client satisfaction through pricing analysis and the development of alternative pricing models and improved delivery
• Project managing significant firm wide strategic projects e.g. mergers, office set ups, LLP conversions and practice management initiatives
• Branding, public relations and crisis management, especially with regard to the legal and business press
• Partner mentoring to harness key talent and optimise relationships with clients, teams and the wider firm
• Partner performance reviews

For in-house legal departments:

• Strategy development, including identifying the role of the legal function and how it makes a commercial contribution to the business, its strategic imperatives, risks and opportunities
• Organisational structuring, including defining and creating management structures and roles for individuals
• People development, including creating and managing coaching and mentoring programmes
• Procurement of legal and other services, including development and managing tendering processes
• Benchmarking of performance against peer groups, including cross border comparisons and developing measurable development plans for the in-house teams and/or individuals within it

For barristers' chambers:

• Market analysis and strategy development
• The establishment and use of a procurement company
• The implications of the Legal Services Act, including the use of LDPs
• The reorganisation and corporatisation of the chambers structure
• Direct access and participation in public and private sector legal tenders
• Building deeper relationships with instructing solicitors and other work providers
• Working practice reviews and enhancements including improvements to legal project management
• Branding, public relations and crisis management, especially with regard to the legal and business press

Credentials

All of Jomati's work is confidential. However, in relation to transactions in which we have been involved, clients occasionally consent to us mentioning our role alongside a copy of their announcement of the transaction. Below are details of some such transactions.