Buck: Putting you first to deliver the solutions you need, when you need them

Buck is an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting, technology, and administration services firm. Founded more than 100 years ago as an actuarial consultancy committed to establishing sound retirement plans, we’ve evolved to serve HR departments and trustees across the health, wealth, and career spectrum. We offer a world-class portfolio of benefits advisory, analytics, administration, engagement, and communication solutions, powered by best-in-class technology, to help fulfil the pensions and benefits needs of you and your employees.

With the ultimate goal of securing the futures of our clients’ employees and members, we develop tech-enabled programmes that engage and drive individual and organisational growth. Committed to the needs of today’s dynamic workforce, our people-first approach empowers the world’s most forward-thinking organisations to protect the physical and financial wellbeing of their employees and members and improve how their people work and live.

104 years in the business, combined with extensive experience in delivering a range of services to clients across the legal sector, allows us to confidently push boundaries to keep you ahead of the curve. We’re not like the rest – and we believe that’s what makes us your ideal partner.

• We’re big enough to advise some of the world’s largest organisations.
• We’re versatile enough to offer the same outstanding service and top-notch consultants and administrators to all our clients.
• And we’re nimble enough to offer a boutique-like experience, where our clients are always our top priority.

With an eye towards the future, we’re introducing new solutions across health, risk and wellbeing, flexible benefits, share plans, and DB/DC pension schemes, that make delivering on your commitments seamless and more measurable, to help you make the right decisions to achieve the best outcomes for your employees. 

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Intelligent Office (IO) is the market leader in delivering the immediate legal support service requirements at law firms whilst designing the next generation services that revolutionise the way firms manage their support. As a customer-obsessed business, our goal is to empower lawyers to work more productively, effectively, and efficiently. We have built the capability to deliver high quality work securely from anywhere – onsite in our clients’ premises, at our 3 UK-based ISO 27001 shared services centres, remotely, or in a hybrid manner so that law firms are able to easily and quickly access our broad suite of support services including PA and EA, document production, legal administration including client onboarding, reprographics, mailroom, facilities, matter management, front of house and core goods procurement.

With over 800 staff across the UK, our people are firmly at the heart of everything we do. We are continuously developing, motivating, and training our employees so that they are able to provide unparalleled service to our clients. Our culture, values and people leadership led us to achieve the Investors in People (IIP) Platinum accreditation first in 2018 and again in 2021, making us one of just 3% of companies globally to have achieved this highest standard of assessment offered by IIP.

If you’d like to find out more about Intelligent Office and how our services can help your law firm achieve your support goals, please get in touch with Jo Styles on Jo.Styles@intelligentofficeuk.com / +44 7753 497 940 or Anneli Douglas on Anneli.Douglas@intelligentofficeuk.com / +44 7984 548 622

With over 35 years’ experience delivering market leading HR, payroll, employee engagement and data analytics systems and services, we’re a trusted provider to many law firms across the UK, Ireland and beyond. We offer flexible services to suit your needs including the option to outsource your payroll to our experts and achieve 99.99% accuracy. We have also been providing effective emergency payroll services, for precise payroll every time, without fail.

With a growing base of customers in the legal sector, we can meet the requirements of your law firm with industry tailored solutions. Whether it’s enabling remote working, managing your payroll effectively or minimising billing hour interruptions through smooth and seamless systems, we provide solutions for the specific needs of law firms like yours.

We’re proud to serve some of the leading names in the legal sector including Hugh James, a top 100 law firm in the UK. We are an official partner of Thomson Reuters Elite 3E in the UK, so we can offer a valuable integration between our HR and payroll systems and 3E.

We make the complex, simple and enable law firms to reimagine their workplace, transforming their people’s impact to the business. All of this simply, securely and with 24/7 accessibility through our innovative technology, software and services.

Our aim is to give you the power to drive resilience, flexibility and connectivity throughout your organisation, whilst simplifying the most time-consuming people processes and giving you the insight to make decisions with confidence. All of this is designed to impact your bottom line.

We do this through continually reinvesting into research and development, ensuring we’re always ahead of the market curve and looking forward to how we can maximise our software and services for our customers. 

Totum is the leader in law and professional services firm business services recruitment – passionate about the evolving role of business functions in delivering, supporting and accelerating change during this period of transition. We know that today's firms can only succeed with the best business skills and capabilities. That's why we specialise in business services recruitment, dedicating all of our resources to matching up the very best business talent from across industry sectors with law and professional services firms based in the UK, as well as on the international stage.

Totum spans all business services divisions, with our dedicated HR & Operations specialists here to help support the successful development of your own team, placing Directors, Heads of and Managers in all areas of HR and Operations. We work with individuals over a long period, often supporting their careers up to HR & Operations leadership including COO level, and we have helped grow and develop HR & Operations teams by applying our keen understanding of the evolving dynamics of this critical function. Whatever HR & Operations skills you need, we are on hand to deliver.

If you would like to find out more about how we could help you with your HR & Operations recruitment needs, or just to have a chat about latest market trends, contact laura.mcnair@totumpartners.com or roisin.ashmore@totumpartners.com

Veran Performance is the independent HR & Finance Technology and Transformation advisor for Law Firms.

How we can help

We provide advice, market insight and hands on delivery for:

• Business Cases for HR Technology or Change

• Selection of the right HR / Payroll System

• Implementation of cloud HR / Payroll Systems

• Digital Transformation of HR, Finance, Payroll

• Leading practice Process Design

• Leading practice HR Metrics & Analytics

• Project and Change Management

Benefits of working with us

• Technology and supplier agnostic, helping you choose the right software, tools and services for your firm.

• We work side by side with your team to share our knowledge and build capability in HR, Technology, Digital Transformation and Change, to equip you for the future.

• All we do is HR, Payroll and Finance so we are true specialists in this space… and we love it!

Our expertise in Legal

We have worked with many UK and Global Law firms from 800 employees to over 5000 on their HR projects. We know what makes law firms different to other businesses and how to design and implement HR processes, technology and change that meet law firm complexities and requirements. For more information, visit our website or contact becky@veranperformance.com