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What Does Your ?About? Page Say about You and Your Law Firm

Posted on June 17, 2009
When it comes to lawyers and marketing, there is an awful lot that falls through the cracks and gets lost in translation. Too often, lawyers are so busy billing by the hour that they forget that they are in the...

How to Convert Web Visitors into Clients

Posted on June 17, 2009
The whole idea of attorney advertising is novel within the legal profession. Lawyers aren?t used to advertising. Leaving personal injury lawyers aside, many businesses have tiptoed into the advertising pond unsure of where to start and what message to send...

Law Firm Dresses Down Dress Code Policy: Lawyers and Staff can Wear Jeans

Posted on June 17, 2009
West Coast Law firms such as the Latham & Watkins? San Francisco office are dressing down their dress code policy by allowing their lawyers and staff members to wear jeans. Of course, with the exception of client meetings, court room...

Lawyers Guide to Creating a Marketing Habit In 21 Days

Posted on June 16, 2009
In today?s economic world, marketing is more important than ever. The people who are bringing in business are the ones who are out there courting it. That?s why I am happy to share with you a special opportunity. For the...

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The # 1 Client Complaint of All Time

Posted on June 16, 2009
We don?t need statistics to know it?s true. We?ve heard it since we graduated from law school. The number one complaint by clients is the failure to return phone calls and lack of information from their lawyer. When clients don?t...

Asking for a Malpractice Suit: Failing to Educate the Client

Posted on June 15, 2009
Over the course of my career, I would say that the vast majority of instances where a client came to a lawyer for advice, the lawyer essentially told the client what to do based on that lawyer?s own experience, expertise...

More Layoffs at One of the Country?s Largest Law Firms

Posted on June 12, 2009
Above the Law reports that one of this country?s largest law firms, Fish & Richardson, recently announced a second round of layoffs. Although the last round of layoffs included mostly support staff, this round included one-third of its incoming first...

Judge Receives Repremand for His Comments Made on FACEBOOK

Posted on June 11, 2009
As reported at law.com?s Legal Blog Watch, North Carolina Judge recently received this reprimand by the state?s Judicial Standards Commission for posting and exchanging messages on Facebook with a Lawyer in a matter being tried before him. Here are some...

Good News for US-based Independent Contract Lawyers and Hiring Attorneys

Posted on June 09, 2009
The American Bar Association's Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee recently released an opinion regarding law firms using contract lawyers for various tasks. The ABA stated that when hiring a contract attorney, the use of attorneys who have been trained in...

So You Think the Number of People Following You on Twitter Isn't Important?

Posted on May 21, 2009
Twitter just announced they are updating their real-time search to index links. If done properly, Twitter search could morph into a strong competitor to Google and may become critical in driving traffic to web sites. In this post, I?ll explain...

A Surefire Way Not to Get Nominated for the Supreme Court

Posted on May 20, 2009
I want to thank Eric Goldman at http://blog.ericgoldman.org/ for posting the article "Five Lawyer Ads That Make Any Supreme Court Candidate Look Brilliant" to Facebook and making us aware of it. These are people who will definitely not be nominated...

I Could Be an Idiot, but You Would Never Know It Because I Look Good In a Suit

Posted on May 20, 2009
Me and the boys are out cruising downtown Saturday night in Traverse City Michigan. At 6:46, a guy is coming across the street. He has cropped well-groomed hair. His appearance is All-American, and he?s wearing a suit with a green...

What to Do When the Witness Doesn?t Give You a Straight Answer

Posted on May 19, 2009
I am currently at the INTA conference in Seattle at and education track on deposition tactics in trademark cases. I had to share this hilarious video discussed by the panel. What do you do when the deponent won?t give you...

Computer Monitors - Size Does Matter

Posted on May 14, 2009
In a recent blog post on the Business Technology web site, Ben Worthen notes in a study done by the University of Utah that the size of the computer monitor or using two or three monitors instead of one really...

Solo Practice - David Beating Goliath

Posted on May 13, 2009
MyShingle.com is a popular web site published by Carolyn Elefant. She is a big proponent of the solo practitioner and helping the solo see that going solo is a reality that can be reached. In a recent post, she references...

Top 11 Reasons My Wife Nan is the "Greatest American Mom"

Posted on May 13, 2009
For those of you have have read my bio, Nan is the girl who knew me for 20 days when she agreed to marry me. And, yes in my opinion, she was a bit distracted by the 'redness' of the...

Top Ten Reasons My Wife Nan is the "Greatest American Mom"

Posted on May 10, 2009
For those of you have have read my bio, Nan is the girl who knew me for 20 days, and agreed to marry me and my cool red Mercedes Benz. And, yes in my opinion, she was a bit distracted...

Page One Google Search Results Are Great ? Multiple Page One Google Search Results Are Better

Posted on May 07, 2009
We often get asked how we are able to obtain so much business off of the Internet. The answer is that we always strive for A+ content within our niche practice areas. We use blogs to post that content, wrapped...

Escaping Mundanity

Posted on May 05, 2009
Thanks to Denise Howell over at the Bag and Baggage blog for turning me on to this article through a Facebook link. In this article titled ?How to Escape Mundanity? by Guy Kawasaki of How to Change the World, Guy...

Ronald J. Baker Continues His Push to Kill the Billable Hour

Posted on May 04, 2009
For those of you who don?t know, Ronald J. Baker is one of the foremost advocates for alternative billing and killing the billable hour. He started his accounting career with KPMG in San Francisco. Today, he is the founder of...

Twittering the Blow by Blow of Courtroom Action Is the Latest Onslaught by Technology on the Court System

Posted on May 04, 2009
A hardy thank you to Robert J. Ambrogi over at Robert Ambrogi?s LawSites for posting the following article on Facebook titled ?Judge Shuts Down NewWest.Net Twitter Feed from Yellowstone Club Trial? by Courtney Lowery. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Ralph B...

CCM Conference: "How to Set Alternative Fees for Max Profits and Increase Client Satisfaction"

Posted on May 01, 2009
I will be a presenter for the Center for Competitive Management with regard to setting alternative fees, along with my co-faculty member, Pamela H. Woldrow, Principal, Altman Weil, Inc., on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Here is...

The M22 Challenge: a multi-discipline event based in beautiful Leelanau County in Northern Michigan.

Posted on April 30, 2009
One of our favorite clients is M22, whose trademarks we protect. For those of you who don't know, M22 is a road which goes around the entire Leelanau County Peninsula. Our clients turned it into a brand which is described...

Legal Technology Trends: 2009 Predictions

Posted on April 30, 2009
Dennis over at the Dennis Kennedy blog has published an article called ?Nine Legal Technology Trends for 2009: The Year of Hunkering Down?. In his article, Dennis observes the legal technology market and makes his predictions for legal technology trends...

"The Billboard" - Who says billboard advertising isn't effective?

Posted on April 29, 2009
attorney advertising

Blawg Review #209

Posted on April 27, 2009
Check out this week?s Blawg Review #209 hosted by John Hochfelder at the New York Injury Cases Blog which discusses pain and suffering verdicts in personal injury cases.

How I Built a Seven-Figure Law Firm with My Partners Google and the Internet

Posted on April 22, 2009
Four years ago, people said I was crazy for trying to build a law firm built exclusively on clients derived from the Internet but with a little brainpower, and some help from my friends the Internet and Google, that?s exactly...

How I Built a Seven-Figure Law

Posted on April 22, 2009
How I Built a Seven-Figure Law Firm with My Partners Google and the Internet Four years ago, people said I was crazy for trying to build a law firm built exclusively on clients derived from the Internet but with a...

Stoke International: One of Our Many Client Successes

Posted on April 21, 2009
No one takes more pride and joy when a client?s small business succeeds than I do. Here is a video which reflects one of our client?s success stories, Stoke International. I love their byline. Dante Basco and Stoke International,Working together...

Is Facebook the Ultimate Business Networking Tool?

Posted on April 21, 2009
I have hundreds of LinkedIn contacts. However, little has ever come from professional networking through LinkedIn. Facebook, on the other hand, is essentially a social networking software product which is much simpler, cleaner and engaging than the LinkedIn interface...

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