Katy Goshtasbi provides an excellent yet simple definition of a personal brand: It's what people say about you behind your back. Essentially, it’s your reputation. As people have become more active on social media, though, the idea of a ...
Ruth Carter - April 9, 2014Having a website is like having a puppy. Once you bring it home, you still need to feed it, play with it and keep it clean.
Karin Conroy - April 2, 2014Would you like it if your law firm's website pages attracted more visitors from search engines? Improving your pages’ meta description tags can help.
Gyi Tsakalakis - March 26, 2014Don't you wish you had a superpower, or at least some handy mobile tools, that would help you get, keep and cross-sell more clients? Well, wish no more. Law firm business development experts are producing apps that can help with motivation, ...
Deborah McMurray - March 24, 2014Prior to working with a sixth-year associate recently, I reviewed her online profiles. After we had talked for an hour, I noted that her bio was a complete disconnect from her practice. While she originally had been assigned to the firm’s estate ...
Sally J. Schmidt - March 20, 2014Research-based legal rankings have become annual fixtures in law firm marketing calendars, especially as the main directories' cachet increases. Listings can be a great opportunity to publicize and enhance the reputation of individual lawyers as ...
Elizabeth Lampert and Nigel Savage - March 17, 2014What does it take to land television interviews and features in media outlets like Fox, The New York Times and CNBC? "How to Build Your Brand and Grow Your Network" is Daliah Saper's topic at the upcoming Lawyernomics 2014 conference — and with ...
The Editors - March 13, 2014Question: We saw the TV ad the Georgia lawyer created for the Super Bowl and also heard that a national law firm spent a ton of money on Super Bowl advertising a few years ago. Was that a good idea? I think it was awfully ...
The Editors - March 5, 2014Few things will jolt lawyers into action faster than an incursion into the legal services market by someone who is not a lawyer. Claws out, fangs bared, hair raised on end, the profession aggressively protects its territory the way it knows ...
Jordan Furlong - March 3, 2014Fortunately, the discussion of websites in the legal industry has mostly changed from, “Do you have a website for your firm?” to “Have you leveraged the latest technology and best practices to fully optimize your site?” Here are five trends ...
Sachin Bhatia - February 21, 2014