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Blogging Can Really Bring In Business

As the Greatest American Lawyer blog says "content can drive business." In a post yesterday, it was pointed out that the advantage of blogging is that it can benefit both the lawyer and prospective client . Demonstrating one's expertise...

Published Mon, Sep 20 2010 3:01 PM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, Blogs, marketing, legal business development, Tom Kane, blogging

Are Your Web Site Images Effective?

Marketing professionals have for years gotten a pretty good laugh over the too often used pictures lawyers have on their web sites (and brochures). That is, courthouses, gavels, scales of justice, law books, etc . Can't remember if I've mentioned...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:03 AM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, law firms, marketing, law firms, law firm marketing, legal business development, client relations, lawyers

How to Write a Blog Post: content ideas for lawyers who blog.

Setting up a blog is easy. Whether you do it yourself or hire someone to do it for you, it will probably be the last easy thing you do in your life as a lawyer who blogs. The rest of your life as a lawyer who blogs will revolve around an empty white box...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 9:34 AM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, law firms, marketing, social media, CMOs, law firms, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, twitter, law firm marketing, legal business development, law firm strategy, LinkedIn, client relations, lawyers

It’s News When a Law Firm Says It!

It's not news when a GC says it. Mark Chandler (Cisco) and Jeff Carr (FMC) have been saying it for a long time. It's not news when a vendor says it. Paul Lippe (Legal OnRamp) and Ron Friedman (Integreon) have been saying it for a long time. It's...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 12:12 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: Blogs, legal project management

Social Web ‘consumption, familiarity and use’ by in-house lawyers: survey released

As a marketer I rarely, if ever, try to "convince" a law firm or lawyer that social media and networking is something they MUST do. When I speak to groups of lawyers [or marketers] on the topic, I am careful to craft my speeches in a way that...

Published Tue, May 25 2010 3:16 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, Blogs, marketing, social media, In-House Counsel, law firm marketing

Legal Project Management (Part 9): Getting Away from Perfectionism

When Voltaire wrote the phrase "Better is the enemy of good" in the late eighteenth century, he was not thinking about the needs of legal clients. But the phrase is extremely relevant to the challenges lawyers face today as they adapt to what...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 5:58 PM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, marketing, legal project management, law firm marketing

More On The Reality of Alternative Fees

During Jackson Lewis ' annual corporate counsel conference, as reported in The National Law Journal and on Law.com's Small Firm Business , alternative fees are "putting down deep roots." This got my attention, because although there...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 12:42 PM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, fees, billing, alternative fees, law firm marketing

How Project Management Can Help Your Marketing

Patrick Lamb has this week a post about project managemen t on his In Search of Perfect Client Service blog. Specifically, he comments on the Legal Project Management Quick Reference Guide written by my colleague Jim Hassett of LegalBizDev . Pat reviewed...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 11:08 AM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, Blogs, marketing, legal project management, law firm marketing

A Radical Future For The Legal Industry?

Rory Webber, Martindale-Hubbell Connected's Marketing & Community Development Manager interviews legal journalist and MH Connected member, Richard Parnham. In today's difficult economy, many law firms are focusing on how to survive over the...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 12:13 PM by Martindale-Hubbell Connected

Filed under: business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, strategy, change management, law firms, alternative fees, legal project management, fixed fees

Getting a Jump on the Ball

About 30 years ago, I played softball against the cast of Children of a Lesser God . (This is a shaggy-dog story of sorts, though it's true. It does have a point. I'll get there.) It was in the Broadway Show League, a mixed-gender slow-pitch friendly...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 11:21 AM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: Blogs, legal project management

10 Cheap But Effective Marketing Tips For Today's Realities

Earlier this year there was an article by Jessica Sharp published in The Legal Intelligencer , and republished this week on Law.com's Small Firm Business . Since the "10 Tips for Lower-Cost Law Firm Marketing" don't get old with age...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 2:08 PM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, law firms, marketing, social media, law firm marketing

Legal Project Management (Part 8): McDermott’s Deal Dashboard

If you believe what's been written on the web lately, you'd think that the idea of applying project management principles to legal matters was brand new. In fact, however, some lawyers have been focused on these ideas for years, developing new...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 7:00 PM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, law firms, law firms, legal project management

Law Firm Branding: Hocus Pocus or Results?

Baker McKenzie beat Skadden in gross revenues in the 2010 AmLaw 200 list taking over the top spot for the first time since 1994. That's a big deal, I guess. Ben Hallman writes in " Behind the Numbers : A Change at the Top", ( The American...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 1:50 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Law Firm Management, Blogs, law firms, marketing, social media, law firm marketing

Read What Your Clients Read

Sometimes when I am having "post block," I turn to a friendly source of knowledge. In this case, as in the past, I looked at 365 Marketing Meditations: Daily Lessons for Marketing and Communications Professionals by my friend Larry Smith and...

Published Wed, May 5 2010 11:38 AM by Tom Kane

Filed under: legal marketing, business development, Blogs, marketing, law firm marketing

Legal Project Management (Part 7): Training

All of a sudden, legal project management training is hot. Whether you want a one-hour webinar, a three-day workshop, or anything in between, someone has just the course for you. What a difference six months makes. Last November, Paul Lippe posted this...

Published Wed, May 5 2010 4:01 PM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: business development, Blogs, legal project management

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