When is it okay to boast about your professional accomplishments? Say, in blog posts or tweets or press releases? To help set us straight, we asked preeminent ethics expert Will Hornsby to explain some of the stickier rules surrounding marketing legal services. In this installment, he covers directories and the issues that arise when you want to advertise or announce your honors.

Mom had it right: Brush your teeth. Wash your face. Comb your hair. Get to the gym. Make it routine and you won't suffer the weight of getting things done—you'll just do them. It's that same approach that builds great rainmakers. They do the routine tasks as simply as breathing—leaving enough time and energy to help their clients and accept the accolades. Give it a try. Add these six basics to your business development regime.

What happens if you have three important things to get done today and only two hours open on your calendar? How do you avoid feeling frustrated at the end of the day because you didn’t “finish” that motion, or your pre-bills or that amendment? Instead of diving into the maelstrom, use your morning planning to make the best use of your available hours—and conquer the "I didn't get it done!" blues.

Let's say you have a meeting scheduled with your client to review an important time-sensitive document. Moments before, your client calls to cancel because she's caught at home during a snowstorm. At one time, you would have had no choice but to reschedule. Nowadays you have another choice in the form of web conferencing tools.

When is it okay to boast about your professional accomplishments online? Say, in blog posts or tweets? And what about in your firm biography, Google profile and Martindale.com listing? Will Hornsby explains some of the stickier rules surrounding marketing legal services. In this first installment of his three-part series, he takes on client confidentiality issues.

Here are tasks that a marketing assistant can take off your hands so that your law practice's business development plans keep humming along.

Every few weeks we try to catch up with our Attorney at Work Advisors—a sometimes difficult task with these hardworking superstars! But some of them are well-known bloggers, so for this week’s Friday Five we’re recommending that you sample a few of their particularly interesting recent posts—and some awesome tips—from around the blogosphere. Enjoy! 1. Politeness matters. Jordan Furlong wrote a particularly […]

A huge percentage of your audience—whether prospective clients, your referral network or prospective employees—now view your firm website via a smartphone screen. In fact, by 2013, mobile web usage will be more common than any other medium. That means you and your firm better look great on the Internet, whether viewed on a large screen or small.

Now that summer is here, do you even remember your New Year’s resolutions? Did you make any? Of course you did—or at least you thought about them. Why not use the mid-year point as an opportunity to focus and and make real progress toward your goals?

More and more lawyers are discovering that cloud-based time and billing systems cut them loose from the last vestiges of an in-place practice. Christy Burke checked in with a handful to lawyers to find out what can be learned from their experience with time and billing apps.