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Thought Leadership for Lawyers: Hit the Mark

Thought leadership. It’s a new term for an old concept—writing and speaking to enhance your visibility and build a public perception of your expertise. Lawyers have used thought leadership as a marketing strategy since the very early days of law ...

Sally J. Schmidt - May 20, 2013
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Does a Small Law Firm Need to Have a Brand?

Question: Ours is a three-lawyer litigation firm with high-profile experience in a narrow issue. Obviously we don’t have the luxury of an in-house marketing department like the big law firms. But we certainly have the capability to best them in ...

The Editors - May 16, 2013
Office 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Microsoft Office 2013 has been available for several months, but Office 2010 has been stable and mostly well-received in our firm. And with staff and lawyers already overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of new technologies hurtling toward ...

Vivian Manning - May 13, 2013
Is Work-Life Balance a Fraud?

In an interview earlier this year, Laurel Bellows, managing partner of her Chicago business and employment law firm and current president of the American Bar Association, was asked, “How do you do it? How do you do work-life balance and is it ...

Ruth Carter - May 8, 2013
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Redefine Productivity and Do More of What Matters

In the midst of a recent conversation about how to leverage Evernote to become more productive, I was asked a simple yet thought-provoking question: "Daniel, how do you define productivity?" My definition may be a bit nonconformist, but here it ...

Daniel Gold - May 7, 2013
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Law Firm Marketing Advice from Famous Jacksons

With the Third Annual Super Marketing Conference in Boston mere weeks away, LOMAP's Jared Correia has lawyer marketing on the brain. The day-long conference is live at Suffolk University School of Law—and via webcast—May 16, but today the ...

Jared Correia - May 3, 2013
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The Future of Lawyers: Five Big Ideas

Future of lawyers: Five big ideas from Suffolk Law Institute. With Professor Andrew Perlman at the helm, Suffolk University Law School in Boston recently created the Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation. Its purpose: To “study ...

Heidi Alexander - April 26, 2013
They Had Relations: Five Tips for Better Client Communications

Other people talk about the classic maxim that people should "know, like and trust" you—or something like that—and that gets you business. I’ve heard it attributed to Dale Carnegie and it must appear in some business book somewhere. I’ll be ...

Jared Correia - April 25, 2013
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Enterprising Lawyer: Kelly Phillips Erb

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 - April 23, 2013
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Guard Your Blog Against WordPress Attacks

If you use WordPress for your blog or law firm website, you may know that this month the WordPress community faced perhaps its largest brute force attack. Reports from around the web confirmed a large botnet was using brute-forcing passwords to ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - April 22, 2013
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