Ruth Carter
Ruth Carter

Ruth Carter — lawyer, writer and professional speaker — is Of Counsel with Venjuris, focusing on intellectual property, business, internet and flash mob law. Named an ABA Journal Legal Rebel, Ruth is the author of “The Legal Side of Blogging for Lawyers,” as well as “Flash Mob Law: The Legal Side of Planning and Participating in Pillow Fights, No Pants Rides, and Other Shenanigans.” Ruth blogs at GeekLawFirm.com and UndeniableRuth.com.

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  • Small Law Firms: Your BOIR Is Due by January 1!
  • Lawyer Flat Fees or Hourly Rates? Pros and Cons of Legal Billing Options
  • Books Every Lawyer Must Read Before Opening a Law Firm
  • Who Wants Pie? Celebrating Non-Traditional Holidays at Your Law Firm
  • Wheaton’s Law
  • Long-Form Content Drives Long-Term Success for Lawyers: Create Once, Cash In for Years
  • Overcome Clutter and Hoarding in the Office: Advice from the Expert
  • Limit Your Inputs to Improve Your Output: Calming the Frazzled Mind
  • Mastering the Art of Blogging: Key Insights and Strategies for Lawyers from Orbit Media’s Annual Blogger Survey
  • Changing My CRM Database: From $400 to Free
  • ‘The Time to Win’: Speed and Responsiveness Are Essential for Getting and Keeping Clients
  • Client Engagement Agreements: Blunt Terms I Wish I Could Include
  • Make AI Your Intern, Not Your Replacement as a Lawyer
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Legal Industry: Interview With AI Expert Paul Roetzer
  • Going After Non-Paying Clients: Q&A With a Collections Attorney
  • How I Rebranded My Law Firm
  • Working on Not Being a Workaholic
  • How to Change Your Law Firm Name
  • Workaholic Lawyer: Is This Lifestyle Sustainable?
  • Side Hustle for Attorneys: Create an Online Course for People Who Will Never Hire You
  • How to Get a New Logo for Your Law Firm
  • Predicting and Protecting Yourself Against Violence: Interview With Craig Gundry
  • A Law Office Address That’s Perfect for a Virtual New Practice
  • Lawyer Safety: Are You Prepared?
  • Why Do Lawyers Do It? The Benefits of Running
  • State Bar CLEs: A Rant
  • What Lawyers Need to Know About CCPA, California’s New Privacy Law
  • Advocacy Without Assholery
  • Saving My Sanity With a Four-Day Workweek
  • Expert Advice on Effective Emails for Lawyers: An Interview With Nancy Harhut
  • Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services
  • Outsourcing Your Legal Blog Requires Collaboration
  • How Lawyers Should Market Themselves: An Interview With Joe Pulizzi, Godfather of Content Marketing
  • Office Dogs Improve Law Firm Morale
  • Content Inc.: The Way to Build a Successful Practice With Content Marketing
  • Accidents Happen: What Precautionary Measures Do You Have in Place for Your Law Practice?
  • Dominating Legal Content Marketing in 2021
  • YouTube Videos: A Marketing Dream for Lawyers
  • Corona Marketing: How to Position Your Law Firm During the Pandemic for Post-Pandemic Success
  • COVID-19 in the Office: Staying Safe While Practicing Law
  • Organization Strategy: Spreadsheeting My Professional Life
  • Staying Productive While Sheltering in Place
  • Working From Home While Introverted
  • Public Speaking: How to Be a Better CLE Panelist
  • DIY Unique Graphics Substantially Improve Law Firm Marketing
  • Getting Paid: The Power of Following Up
  • Taking a Break From Lawyer Life
  • When Are You Too Sick to Lawyer?
  • Give the People What They Want: Attorney Bios
  • LinkedIn Is NOT a Dating Site (And Other Ways to Harm Your Reputation)
  • Take Advantage of the Summer Slowdown to Work on Your Business
  • Be a More Effective Speaker
  • Get More Referrals From Your LinkedIn Profile
  • Stay Curious: Wise Words from a ‘Wise Guy’
  • Jerk Behavior: Don’t Write About Your Clients Online
  • Blogging About Boring or Complex Legal Topics
  • Dealing With Non-Paying Clients: A Rant
  • The Results Are In: How to Be an Effective Legal Blogger
  • Are Your Personal Marketing Goals Scary Enough?
  • Being a Legal Author: When the Publisher Drops Your Book
  • Running a Modern Law Firm: Interview with Billie Tarascio
  • Non-Binary Lawyering: What’s Courtroom Attire?
  • Killing Marketing for Lawyers
  • Lawyers and Vacations: It’s a Necessity
  • Blogging for Search Results Domination in Your Niche
  • Scott Sigler’s Productivity Secrets: Creating a System
  • How Do You Combat Mental Gremlins?
  • When to Raise Your Rates
  • What’s Your Theme Word for 2018? Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  • Disrespectful Clients Don’t Get to Stay Clients
  • What to Write? Ways to Find Ideas for Your Law Firm Blog
  • Speaking and Lawyering: Balancing the Jobs
  • Attorney Safety: Interview with Stephen Kelson
  • Once More Unto the Breach: Taking a Second Bar Exam
  • Sabotaging Your Practice? Just Stop It!
  • Your Network Is Your Net Worth
  • Even Lawyers Need to Play
  • How to Beat Blogger’s Block
  • What’s Your Word for 2017?
  • Coping With Stress: Trudging Through the Drudgery
  • Take It to the Wall: Be Organized
  • Blogging Advice from the Experts
  • Swag Made for Your Audience
  • Provide Maximum Value When You Speak at Conferences
  • Productivity Challenge: Two To-Do Lists
  • Update: Five Ways to Receive Credit Card Payments
  • Expand Your Mind: Go to Mainstream Conferences
  • Motivator: ‘By Next Week I Will …’
  • Depression: A Lawyer Pandemic
  • You Don’t Need a Holiday to Show Some Love
  • Write What? A Simple Solution to Blogger’s Block
  • Networking on the Road
  • Finding Your Law Firm’s Social Media Voice
  • A More Purposeful Life: Rethinking Time
  • Starting the Day on a Happy Foot
  • Disregarding the Traditional Workweek
  • The Great Email Clean Out 2015
  • The Undeniable Tour: Lessons from the Road
  • Blogging for the Long Haul
  • Have You Reddit?
  • Is Paternity Leave for Lawyers an Oxymoron?
  • Giving Up Solo Practice for Firm Life
  • Fight the Lawyer Stereotype
  • Bar Member? Be Your Own Advocate
  • Solo Anxiety: It All Works Out in the End
  • Boldly Go Where No Firm Has Gone Before — With Your Holiday Card
  • Lawyers, Depression and Substance Abuse: A Candid Q&A
  • How to Suck at Networking
  • Want to Be More Efficient? Unplug!
  • Lawyers at Standing Desks: Benefits and Drawbacks
  • Business Group Memberships: Should You Renew?
  • Putting Your Personal Brand to the Test
  • Lawyers and CLE Courses: What Are You Really Doing?
  • Using Other Lawyers’ Content on Your Blog: Rein It In
  • Going Brick-and-Mortar
  • Outsourcing for Beginners
  • Business Development: Strategically Showing Up
  • Dogs in the Law Office
  • How to Build a Law Practice? Keep Showing Up
  • What’s Your Law Firm’s Red Velvet Rope Policy?
  • Is Work-Life Balance a Fraud?
  • Is This a Kindergarten or a University?
  • The Lonely Side of Solo Practice
  • Gary Vaynerchuk: Find Your Social Media “Right Hook”
  • If You Build It, Will They Come?
  • Writing an Ebook: What I Learned
  • Five Law Firm Website Turnoffs
  • First, Think Local
  • Talk Back to Bad Reviews
  • Late Clients Baffle Me
  • Beat Back Procrastination: 5 Tips for Just Getting Stuff Done!
  • It’s Okay to Turn Down Clients
  • Five Ways to Receive Credit Card Payments
  • Overcome the Ennui of CLE (and Get What You Need)
  • Why Skype? Get Google Hangouts
  • How Do You Measure Success?
  • Introvert’s Survival Guide for Networking Events
  • The Best Public Speaking Advice
  • Lawyers: CYA When Working from Mobile Devices
  • Social Media and Marketing Advice for New Law Practices
  • How Do You Set Your Hourly Rates?
  • Nine Podcasting Tips for Lawyers
  • Get to the (Power) Point
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