Alternate Fee Agreements Meet Process Improvement
Following my post on Alternative Fee Agreements for law firms and their clients I had one of those days where I wished I had never heard of the phrase. I was sitting in the middle…
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Earth to FACEBOOK…automatically generated fan pages? Are you kidding?
Just as I started to breath easier—Facebook rolled back the ridiculously complicated privacy settings that were causing chaos for those who care—alien generated community pages started showing up. In the tunnel vision of FaceBook… “Community…
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Alternative Fee Agreements: The truth beyond the lore.
Thinking about the best way to structure that Alternative Fee Agreement your client is requesting? Well, it may take some time up front and some serious understanding of the benefits for both client and law…
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Social Web “consumption, familiarity and use” by in-house lawyers: survey released
As a marketer I rarely, if ever, try to “convince” a law firm or lawyer that social media and networking is something they MUST do. When I speak to groups of lawyers [or marketers] on…
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Law Firm Branding: Hocus Pocus or Results?
Baker McKenzie beat Skadden in gross revenues in the 2010 AmLaw 200 list taking over the top spot for the first time since 1994. That’s a big deal, I guess. Ben Hallman writes in “Behind…
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Doing a Raindance: The Legal Sales and Service Organization Conference 2010
If you’re responsible for business development in your law firm or your own practice, whether a lawyer, managing partner, marketing or business development professional, attending the Raindance Conference should be on your to do list,…
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Too Busy For Marketing? Tap Into Your Social Web Communities.
Who has time for business development when you’re really busy with client work? Since the beginning of 2010 I’ve been struggling to balance the time I devote to taking care of my clients-who deserve 100…
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Amazon: The Disney of Delivery
Where does your law firm stack up? Are you creating experiences or are you delivering “business as usual?” I wish I had some really good excuse for not publishing to my blog in over a…
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A Friday Diversion: Criminal Lawyers Online
I’m in the last phase of preparing the manuscript of my forthcoming book, social.lawyer: Transforming business development, new media, new tools and the social web for lawyers. Exactly seven days from NOW my wonderful publisher,…
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Fear of Facebook Part III : Fan Pages for Law Firms?
“There’s a lot of business done in country clubs, but you’ll never see a company open a booth in the club’s dining room. Instead, individual business people network quietly there, blending into the scene and…