It’s widely accepted that law schools don’t do a very good job — or in many cases don’t do anything at all — to teach law students how to develop business. Many commentators lament this failure, criticizing schools for not focusing on business ...
Jay Harrington - January 28, 2016The more I conduct client feedback interviews, the more I realize how few quality contacts lawyers make with their clients outside the substantive legal work being done. The number of times clients fumble for the name of a lawyer who is actively ...
Sally J. Schmidt - January 21, 2016
Not every small law firm can afford a full-time marketing director. But what the right marketer can produce with a minimal budget will probably surprise you. A case in point is the Law Offices of Peter N. Brewer, a six-lawyer boutique real ...
Susan Kostal - January 7, 2016Cat got your tongue? Our special two-week holiday series, “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” continues today with good tips on starting and sustaining conversations. You’ve heard about the elevator speech, the 30-second ...
Theda C. Snyder - December 29, 2015Last spring at ABA TECHSHOW 2015, Philippe Doyle Gray presented his method for using Evernote to manage contacts, especially during events. For today’s installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” we asked him to ...
Philippe Doyle Gray - December 28, 2015Networking, the art of connecting the dots in a way that both builds your practice and helps people find solutions to their problems, is an evergreen topic of discussion among lawyers. From "I can't do all that glad-handing!" to "I feel so lucky ...
The Editors - December 24, 2015A busy travel schedule can be good for business development. Ruth Carter tells how she does it in today's installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking." Looking over my calendar from 2015, I noticed that I spent ...
Ruth Carter - December 23, 2015
Dust off your dancing shoes: Our special two-week holiday series, "Connect the Dots: A Lawyer's Guide to Networking," begins today. Face-to-face contact remains the top networking tool to reach business clients and professional ...
Theda C. Snyder - December 21, 2015As the new year approaches, a lot of firms ask their lawyers to prepare annual business or marketing plans. Even without that structure, it makes sense to take a step back to reflect and assess what has worked, what hasn’t and what should be ...
Sally J. Schmidt - December 7, 2015
Lawyers are hard-wired to be precise when writing and speaking. When practicing law they honor that precision rigorously. However, when it comes to interacting with their market, let’s just say their language discipline loses a lot of its rigor. ...
Mike O'Horo - December 3, 2015
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