"Why Your Blog Sucks and What to Do About It" is Sam Glover's topic at the upcoming Lawyernomics 2013 conference. We talked with Sam last week to get a preview, and to learn a bit more about how wrong lawyer blogs can be. If you blog, or if ...
The Editors - March 1, 2013Many clients behave like their lawyers are doctors. They only visit us when they face serious problems that require an expensive and time-consuming fix. They are unhappy when they walk in, mad that they are there in the first place, mad that ...
Antigone Peyton - February 28, 2013If your practice involves large deals and larger documents, then you know the drafting havoc that word processing can create. Clearly, we save time when we start with legacy documents, copy and paste from other matters, and have each party make ...
Carol Gerber - February 27, 2013If you were one of the 108 million Americans watching Super Bowl XLVIII, you know what I mean when I say it’s a rare few of us who’ll ever feel the adulation Jacoby Jones enjoyed when he ran back the first kickoff of the second half ...
Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - February 22, 2013Today is the first in a new edition of "Ask the Experts" produced in collaboration with the Association of Legal Administrators. ALA told us that one of the most troubling issues on law firm managers’ desks right now is ...
The Editors - February 21, 2013Stephanie Kimbro will speak on "The Consumer Law Revolution: Lawyer Collaboration with Branded Networks" at the Lawyernomics 2013 conference in Las Vegas on April 27. Her topic is a hot one—and as author of three books on related topics and ...
The Editors - February 20, 2013It's a simple fact that being organically ranked number one on Google is still one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your website. Even the savviest marketers may be unaware, though, that regular algorithm updates by the good folks ...
Brian Burt - February 18, 2013In this edition of "Ask the Experts," three savvy members of the Legal Marketing Association take on the question, "I say that law firm websites are a thing of the past. They are nothing more than brochures. I’m trying to ...
The Editors - February 13, 2013Last week, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with social media entrepreneur and best-selling author Gary Vaynerchuk. If you haven’t read his book, The Thank You Economy, go read it. It’s fantastic. Gary —who has ...
Ruth Carter - February 12, 2013Google Calendar, available with a free Google account and also bundled with the fee-based Google Apps productivity suite, is an interesting product. While it is not exactly revolutionary in the way it handles online calendar management, there ...
Catherine Sanders Reach - February 11, 2013