Consortium - more than marketing

18/09/2026

Say hello to Penelope Richards, Consortium's Head of Events.

Penelope brings more than 20 years of experience in events, marketing and PR, across the corporate and professional services sectors. Her experience covers conferences, training programmes, webinars and corporate events, giving her a strong understanding of what makes an event work for both attendees and the organisation behind it.

At Consortium, Penelope manages events from planning through to delivery, working closely with clients and the wider team to make sure every detail is covered. Her focus is on creating well-organised, purposeful events that support marketing, relationship-building and business development.

Find out more about Penelope here: https://bit.ly/4hzQPUU

17/09/2026

How human is your law firm's marketing?

It's a harder question than it first appears. Firms are producing more content than ever, but the personality that helps people trust a firm can easily get lost in the rush to keep up.

That's why we've created a short, interactive scorecard to help you find out where your marketing really sits. In 10 straightforward questions, it looks at things like whether your content reads like a person wrote it, how personalised your emails are, whether your lawyers are visible on LinkedIn, and whether your firm shows up at real-life events as well as online.

At the end, you'll get a clear result; Human-Led Brand, AI Heavy or At Risk of Robotic – along with a breakdown of your marketing blindspots and some practical insight into the quickest changes you could make.

It might confirm what you already suspected, or it might flag something you hadn't considered! Either way, it only takes a few minutes.

Complete the 3-minute quiz: https://bit.ly/4fyRJPg

16/09/2026

"AI can organise information. It cannot exercise wisdom." 🎧

That distinction, from family law barrister Yaa Dankwa Ampadu-Sackey, might be one the most insightful sentences we've heard on AI in legal practice all year...

Yaa knows the technology's strengths first-hand – she saw AI sift through thousands of emails on the UK Covid Inquiry to surface the material that actually mattered. Used well, she says, it's a genuinely powerful assistant.

But in family law, the questions that decide cases aren't ones a machine can answer. Whether a witness is credible, whether a parent's behaviour makes sense in the context of their culture and circumstances, and how to own a difficult decision and explain it to the person it affects – these all call for judgement that comes from experience, not from a dataset.

In the latest episode of the more than marketing podcast, Laura Hearn and Yaa, a mediator and cross-qualified lawyer in England and Wales and Ghana, practising at Trinity Chambers, dig into where that line sits, and why responsibility is the one thing that can never be outsourced to a system.

Trust AI to complete the task it's been given, but never rely on its output without scrutinising it – because while the first draft can come from technology, the accountability always stays with the lawyer.

🎧 Listen on our website: https://bit.ly/3LX6gpH
🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/4qlfRKl
📖 Or read the episode summary: https://bit.ly/45QCTzv

Thank you, Yaa, for such a thought-provoking conversation!

15/09/2026

A typo in a blog is embarrassing... A typo in legal content can undermine the very credibility the content was meant to build.

With more firms using AI to help draft content, a new type of error is slipping through – copy that's grammatically perfect but factually wrong, oddly phrased or just not quite right for your firm's voice. Spell check won't catch it!

Toby Bennett, of our Marketing & Account Managers, has put together 10 simple proofreading techniques to keep errors out of your published content. Some will be familiar, others less so – like reading your document backwards, sentence by sentence, which forces your brain to see individual words rather than skim the narrative.

Always have second pair of eyes review your content too, as no tool can replace it.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/4AcJ3aT

15/09/2026

Last Wednesday, the Consortium team - Louise Gilbert FCIM, Toby Bennett, Penelope Last Wednesday, the Consortium team - Louise Gilbert FCIM, Toby Bennett, Penelope Richards, Dan Graham, Sam Palin and Will Gordon - laced up for the Brighton Legal Walk, taking on 10km along the seafront from the Law Courts in Kemptown to Hove Town Hall alongside fellow members of the legal community 🚶

We're delighted to say we've raised £365 for access to justice so far, and it was a brilliant morning by the sea 🩷

Organised by the London Legal Support Trust, the Brighton Legal Walk raises vital funds for local advice agencies BHT Sussex, Citizens Advice Brighton & Hove, Possability People and MONEY ADVICE PLUS. 100% of the money raised goes directly to those agencies, helping people get free advice on housing, debt, benefits and employment when they need it most.

This year's walk was noticeably bigger than last year's, with 17 teams from across the Brighton legal community taking part, and the combined total is already ahead of where it stood at the same point in 2025. Between us, we've already raised £5,662 from 191 donors.

There's still time to help push the total higher! If you'd like to support the Consortium team, you can donate here: https://bit.ly/4A2c2hA

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, and to LLST and our fellow walkers for making it such a good day.

14/09/2026

When RBRO Solutions came back to Consortium last summer, the brief was simple: cover the marketing for a few months while they recruited an internal hire. Almost a year later, we're still working together – and what started as short-term cover has become a genuine partnership.

RBRO is a legal tech company and global iManage partner working across Canada, the US, the UK and Europe, which meant keeping campaigns, international events and content moving across multiple markets and time zones. Even the five-hour time difference became an advantage, with work often ready for review by the time their team started the next day.

Between July 2025 and July 2026, RBRO's LinkedIn followers passed 3,000, engagement rose by 189% and impressions increased by 779%.

Here's what Roula Vessio, Strategic Account Executive, had to say:

"Consortium feels like part of our team rather than an agency we send work to. They are responsive, the quality is consistently high, and the time difference has become an advantage rather than an obstacle. We finish for the day, and things are already moving by the time we are back at our desks. What started as short-term cover has turned into something we rely on."

For us, that's what outsourced marketing should feel like: an extension of your team, not a supplier at arm's length!

Thank you to everyone at RBRO for trusting us with your marketing – read the full case study here: https://bit.ly/4A9oT1k

11/09/2026

The final sabbatical update from Lara Squires FCIM 💖

Nine weeks down, one to go, and Lara has sent her last video journal from Portugal before she's back with us on 18 September.

Did it work? She went into this exhausted and needing to recover, and her verdict is a big green tick!

She's had a report from our non-exec director Tom Wilson, with input from Jo Rogers and Louise Gilbert FCIM, who has been holding the fort. Nothing bad in it, but as she puts it, when you're a founder the business is your baby, and even a suggestion of change can feel like someone calling your baby ugly...

Her biggest lesson? She'd assumed she would come back at 100 miles an hour, but that's exactly how she ended up needing a sabbatical in the first place. So she's treating her return like coming back from injury: three days a week to start, nothing changing until Christmas, and plenty of sitting on her hands while the team carries on doing what they've done brilliantly without her.

Working smarter not harder, being kinder, and making room for life outside work. Tom and Lara have christened it Lara 2.0, and we can't wait to meet her!

In her words, it's still a journey, but it has been a truly fabulous one. She's off LinkedIn for one more week, but she's back on 18 September and will be reading every one of your comments then 💕

09/09/2026

Only one month to go until The Legal Conference 2026!

On 15 October, Managing Partners, CEOs, Practice Directors and other senior leaders from UK law firms will be coming together at Hilton Birmingham Metropole for a day focused on the realities of running and growing a modern law firm.

The programme is built around practical insight rather than generic industry commentary.

Expect honest conversations about AI adoption, leadership and growth strategy, alongside business development frameworks you can take back to the firm and put to work.

There will also be a keynote from Harriet Beveridge, exploring performance and focus in a way that goes beyond the usual conference-day motivation.

And then there's the room itself.

A chance to spend the day with other senior law firm leaders who understand the challenges you're dealing with without needing the background explained. The conversations between sessions can be just as valuable as what's on the stage: a space full of people running firms like yours.

📅 Thursday 15 October 2026, 9am to 5pm
📍 Hilton Birmingham Metropole

Register: https://bit.ly/4hhX4fX

Register on The Legal Conference. Get ready for an awesome in-person gathering where legal pros and enthusiasts.

08/09/2026

Tomorrow, we’ll be joining fellow members of the legal community for the Brighton Legal Walk, taking on 10km along the coast to raise money for access to justice.

Organised by the London Legal Support Trust, the walk raises vital funds for local advice agencies including BHT Sussex, Citizens Advice Brighton & Hove, Possability People and Money Advice Plus. The money helps people access free advice on issues including housing, debt, benefits and employment.

Last year’s Brighton walk raised almost £5,000, so we’re hoping to help push that figure even higher this year!

We’re looking forward to getting our steps in, meeting other walkers and supporting a really important cause along the way.

If you’d like to support the Consortium team, you can donate here: https://bit.ly/4A2c2hA

Thank you for supporting our team for the Brighton Legal Walk 2026. Our team is: Dan Graham, Will Gordon, Toby Bennett, Lou Gilbert, Penelope RichardsWe are taking on a sponsored 10km walk on Wednesda

08/09/2026

Only one month to go until Legal Conference 2026!

On 15 October, Managing Partners, CEOs, Practice Directors and other senior leaders from UK law firms will be coming together at Hilton Birmingham Metropole for a day focused on the realities of running and growing a modern law firm.

The programme is built around practical insight rather than generic industry commentary.

Expect honest conversations about AI adoption, leadership and growth strategy, alongside business development frameworks you can take back to the firm and put to work.

There will also be a keynote from Beveridge, exploring performance and focus in a way that goes beyond the usual conference-day motivation.

And then there's the room itself.

A chance to spend the day with other senior law firm leaders who understand the challenges you're dealing with without needing the background explained. The conversations between sessions can be just as valuable as what's on the stage: a space full of people running firms like yours.

📅 Thursday 15 October 2026, 9am to 5pm
📍 Hilton Birmingham Metropole

Register: https://thelegalconference.co.uk/Register