Are You Reading These Posts?
Life’s short. You’re busy. I sort through countless law marketing and business development blogs every day to find the post that will help you market your practice, plan for the future, stay ahead of trends, increase your value to clients, and more. So you don’t have to. Are you reading these posts?
From Accredited Online Colleges: 100 Great Blog Posts for Lost Law School Grads
"100 Great Blog Posts for Lost Law School Grads" from Accredited Online Colleges. Not a lot to say about this post that the title doesn't already cover. 100 posts on passing the bar, finding your passion, unemployment, life after law school and a whole lot more. Some...
read moreFrom Law21.ca: “Measuring lawyer productivity”
"Measuring lawyer productivity" from Law21.ca. This post is more than a year old, but the issue is no less important today. If lawyers are no longer billing by the hour, do they need time sheets? More to the point, do time sheets provide any meaningful data on lawyer...
read moreFrom Law.com’s Small Firm Business: “How Can Law Firms Help Their Lawyers With Marketing?”
"How Can Law Firms Help Their Lawyers With Marketing?" from Law.com's Small Firm Business. We all know it: change is hard. For small firms struggling to maximize the value of their marketing and business development money, time and effort, change can be even harder....
read moreFrom Lawyerist.com: “Legal Blogging: The G.Y.I. System”
"Legal Blogging: The G.Y.I. System" from Lawyerist.com. If you've read my blog before, you probably already know my views on blogs as marketing channels for lawyers and law firms: they work. But only when they're done right. This post provides practical advice for...
read moreFrom Marketing Asia: “Marketing vs Sales in Professional Services: Here we go again!”
"Marketing vs Sales in Professional Services: Here we go again!" from Robert Sawhney's Marketing Asia. If you're not reading Bob Sawhney's blog, you should be. This post shows why. Legal marketing is more than just brochures and websites and PR. A lot more. And firms...
read moreFrom Law Marketing Blog: “Creative Destruction: How to Get that Great Next Job”
"Creative Destruction: How to Get that Great Next Job" from Law Marketing Blog. Every once in a while you come across a post that reaches out of your computer and smacks you right in the face. This is that post. Rethinking the value proposition, how you provide...
read moreFrom Leading Blog: “12 Leadership Guidelines for Leading through Learning in Turbulent Times”
"12 Leadership Guidelines for Leading through Learning in Turbulent Times" from Leading Blog. You probably won't ever need to rebuild a 53,000-employee, embroiled-in-chaos-after-its-founder-and-chair-resigns-amidst-massive-accounting-fraud company. But Priscilla...
read moreFrom The Lawyers Weekly: “Get on headhunters’ radar”
“Get on headhunters’ radar” from The Lawyers Weekly. In spite of its title, this post is useful for all lawyers, not just those seeking employment. In answering the “how-can-lawyers-get-noticed-by-headhunters?” question, it provides good, solid advice for lawyers...
read moreFrom Legal Business Development: “Another mistake: Overestimating the value of personal relationships”
"Another mistake: Overestimating the value of personal relationships" from Jim Hassett's Legal Business Development. Think your clients are still your clients, day after day, year after year, because you play golf and tell jokes and have great fun together? Think...
read moreFrom Simple Justice: “Simple Justice: Through The Eyes of Scott Greenfield”
"Simple Justice: Through The Eyes of Scott Greenfield" from Simple Justice. If you're not reading Scott Greenfield's blog, you should be. You might not agree with everything he writes. You might think that he's too curmudgeonly, that he's too negative, that he should...
read moreFrom Law21.ca: “How to compete on price”
"How to compete on price" from Law21.ca. Jordan Furlong's analyses of current trends in the legal profession, what those trends mean for lawyers and firms, and how they will affect clients and services are always insightful, informative, and instructive. Just like...
read moreFrom Adam Smith, Esq: “Report from London”
"Report from London" from Adam Smith, Esq. I've recommended Bruce MacEwen's posts before. His observations on what firms are doing, delivered in a no-nonsense, "identify-the-problem-and-solve-it" style, provide valuable insight into the economics of the legal...
read moreFrom The Scoop: “LinkedIn Homepage as Intelligence Agent – 3 Tips”
"LinkedIn Homepage as Intelligence Agent - 3 Tips" from The Scoop: On Legal Marketing. I'm all about knowing your target clients: their businesses, their news, their legal needs, their people. This post talks about ways you can gather some of that valuable...
read moreFrom My Law License: “The Cause Of The Defenseless Or Oppressed – 15 Years Later”
"The Cause Of The Defenseless Or Oppressed - 15 Years Later" from My Law License. Brian Tannebaum's 15th-anniversary-as-a-lawyer post is full of his passion and satisfaction and pride as a lawyer. It's also full of valuable, first-hand advice that comes in the form of...
read moreFrom Women Legal: “Loud and Clear”
"Loud and Clear" from Women Legal. I'm struggling to articulate why you should read this blog. Not because I can't think of a good reason: it's one of the most comprehensive and practical career guidance posts I've read all year. Not because I can't say who should...
read moreFrom Law 360: “GCs Detail Do’s and Don’ts Of Keeping Business”
"GCs Detail Do's and Don'ts of Keeping Business" from Law 360. We all know the Golden Rule: "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Turns out that general counsel feel the same way about their law firms. Law 360 talked to some, who shared their...
read moreFrom Convince and Convert: “Is social media too big for its britches?”
“Is social media too big for its britches?” from Jay Baer's Convince and Convert. Social media and social networking for lawyers is something I read about, write about and actively enable. But truth be told, sometimes the discussions bore me. You know the ones. The...
read moreFrom The Conglomerate: “The death of big law and the future of legal education”
“The death of big law and the future of legal education” from The Conglomerate. This piece from Professor Larry Ribstein reflects on the impact to legal education of the death of big law. And Ribstein should know. He is, after all, the author of “The Death of Big...
read moreFrom The AmLaw Daily: “Welcome to the Future: Are Law Schools ‘Beached’?”
"Welcome to the Future: Are Law Schools 'Beached'?" from Paul Lippe writing for The AmLaw Daily. If you're in the legal profession, you need to read this article. Not just because it further drives home the message that the current model is not working for clients,...
read moreFrom Corcoran’s Business of Law Blog: “Does a CMO need an MBA?”
"Does a CMO need an MBA?" from Altman Weil consultant Tim Corcoran in his Corcoran's Business of Law Blog. What makes a good law firm Chief Marketing Officer? How is that changing? Will an MBA better prepare the next generation of CMOs for the challenges they're going...
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