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Legal Marketing Technology Out West

We always look forward to tips from Legal Marketing Technology Conference/West, the hot-ticket event presented by the Legal Marketing Association's Bay ...

Kerstin Firmin - November 1, 2013
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Successful Networking Is a Numbers Game

The most successful salespeople strongly believe that sales is a numbers game. In other words, you don't have to be an ace or a homerun king to be successful at business development. You just have to keep pitching and swinging in the general ...

Roy S. Ginsburg - October 30, 2013
Andy Greene, Enterprising Lawyer

Who are these “enterprising lawyers”? Actually, they are easy to spot. Look for the happier, more engaged lawyers. Deeply invested in the power of the work they do for their clients, they have ample interests beyond the practice of law as well. ...

The Editors - October 29, 2013
Document Automation
Upgrading Your Law Firm DMS? Pitfalls to Avoid

In "Your Law Firm's DMS: Put the Past Behind You," Brian Ruthruff ...

Brian Ruthruff and Dodie Edelstein - October 28, 2013
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Get Likes, Links and Shares for Your Law Firm

It’s no secret that links help your rankings on search engines. It’s also no secret that likes, follows and +1’s are signs of popularity and working their way into search engine ranking factors as well.

Mike Ramsey - October 24, 2013
Defending Your Law Firm on the Internet Battlefield

The Internet is many things to many people. For some, it’s an educational resource. For others, it’s a place to socialize or attract customers. Unfortunately, still others view the Internet as their personal battlefield. Blogs, social media ...

Matt Spiegel - October 23, 2013
Lawyer Marketing as Easy as 1-2-3

You are a member of an organization that holds quarterly dinner meetings with a speaker. You look at your calendar and realize the next meeting is Wednesday night — drat! But, dutifully, you show up just in time to sit down for the meal, ...

Sally J. Schmidt - October 22, 2013
Ways Your Firm Can Create Motions More Efficiently

Meeting tight deadlines for filing motions is stressful by itself. But it's even more nerve-rattling when legal research, drafts and comments are scattered all over the place and not accessible when needed. In a typical law firm, email-based ...

Nitin Gupta - October 21, 2013
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What I Learned at the First P3 Conference

If you like this sort of thing (and I really do), the P3 Conference was an energizing, cutting-edge event that, for the first time, brought together three traditionally discrete disciplines — pricing, practice improvement and project management ...

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - October 18, 2013
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Lawyers and Social Media: Facebook ‘Em, Danno!

Krebbs came to me for advice. It seems one of his associates had called in sick the day they were to prepare massive final documents for a filing, leaving Johnson high and dry to finish it by himself. That very same night, however, Krebbs saw ...

Otto Sorts - October 17, 2013
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