Daily Dispatch

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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Direct Traffic Is Best for Your Law Firm Website

Once you know that no one is looking at your law firm website, it’s time to get serious about turning that around. How?

Gyi Tsakalakis - October 16, 2013
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E-Newsletters for Lawyers: Ethically Educate and Advertise

If you’ve turned to the web to shop, reserve a hotel room or even sign up for a guest pass to your local gym, you’ve likely become a recipient of the vendors’ e-newsletters. From mega-corporations like Kellogg all the way down to ...

Fred Cohen - October 14, 2013
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Burton Law: Virtual by Design

"Stephanie hated me at first. She thought I was really annoying." Chad Burton "I thought Chad was trying to pump me for free ...

Jared Correia - October 10, 2013
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What Do You Mean by “Virtual Law Firm”?

Virtual Law Practice. The legal industry has not experienced such a trendy concept since "per stirpes" hit the scene back in the day. The ...

Chad Burton - October 10, 2013
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Dogs in the Law Office

I love my dog, Rosie. One of the benefits of having a virtual law practice is I get to work from home a lot — and that means my six-year-old basset hound is never far away. I also take her on work-related errands to dog-friendly places.

Ruth Carter - October 9, 2013
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