Communications Skills

Speaking engagements, while part of every short list of business development activities, can work against you just as easily as they can help develop leads for new business.  We’ve all suffered through presentations that should never have made ...

So how do you stay visible on the web and offer good content to your social networks? I've begun experimenting with "curating"—a form of social news aggregation—to create The LPS Reader, a newsletter of my handpicked, top 10 favorite posts of ...

So here’s a fun—and potentially very powerful—thing to do: Hop over to Vizualize.me and create an infographic resume for yourself. The result, I think you’ll agree, is high on the cool spectrum. Even better, it's low on the difficulty scale.

It's true, writing is a lawyer’s primary tool and a great source of pride and identity. But isn’t it also true that once in a while a teensy-weensy wisp of doubt creeps in? In the grip of writer's block, you fixate on memories of those ...

That article or white paper opportunity that seemed like a great way to enhance your reputation three months ago starts to spark panic attacks as the deadline looms. You know what you want to say, and have a file-folder full of notes and ...

"William Melater" (you can call him "Bill") is a young associate who's agreed to blog from time to time about life on the lower rungs of the legal profession as "The Dis-Associate," including—occasionally—what irritates him.

When I started my own commercial litigation boutique last year, I gave serious thought to abandoning the much-maligned billable hour. After all, we all know the criticisms: The billable hour rewards inefficiency, places the lawyer’s interests at ...

Want to build your law practice? Then the first thing you want to do is get a little bit famous. And one route to fame is getting your byline in print and pixels. To all who just muttered, “Yeah, but that’s nearly impossible,” oh no, it isn’t! ...

Innovation is the cornerstone of our economy. Finding new ways to do things, unique things to sell and better ways to sell them—that’s what it's all about. How does this apply to your law practice?

You probably aren't surprised to hear that Americans now spend more time online than they do watching television. But would you guess that 85.6 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed at least one online video in the month of June 2011 ...