It was a joyous day on my work calendar after Labor Day when the kids went back to school. The camp bus pickup at 9 am is replaced by the school bus pickup at 7:25 am. Extended day at school moves the “end of day” from 4 pm to 6…
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LP Magazine – Age over Beauty? Marketing a Law Firm’s Anniversary
In the July/August 2014 issue of the ABA’s Law Practice magazine, I address the always-sensitive subject of age. In this case, it is about the marketing value of a law firms’ years. It is yet another subject that seems to present itself to me with clients a few times every…
LinkedOut and MisTweeted: Ethical Uses of Social Networking in Marketing Your Law Practice
It is hard to believe that I’ve been teaching the “advertising/marketing” ethics hour for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for more than a decade now. But what makes it particularly interesting is that my space (pun intended, if you get it) keeps changing with such rapid fire imprecision that it really…
Lawyers Shifting Facebook Strategies
Like and Like. This is like two Facebook posts in one. For my April 2014 contribution to Web Marketing Today, I return to a topic that I last covered just 11 months ago in May 2013. So much has changed in the social media space in a relatively short time.…
Marketing for Law Firms: Priorities, Purpose, and Pay Grades
In today’s The Legal Intelligencer, reporter Gina Passarella writes about the trend toward sticking “business development” into the titles of many Philadelphia law firm lead marketers. She could have changed the title to “Philly Law Marketers should not let the revolving door hit them on the way out.” The latest…
The Marketing Value of Work-Family Balance
Perhaps this post is just an excuse to brag about my wife, Ivy Brown, who was recently honored as a Working Mother of the Year in the advertising industry by Working Mothers Magazine and the Advertising Women of New York. The event itself was pretty remarkable. There were more than…
LP Magazine – The Impact of the Three R’s: Ratings, Rankings and Reviews
In the March/April 2014 issue of the ABA’s Law Practice magazine, I address a law firm marketing topic that never seems to lose steam–the impact of lawyer ratings, rankings and reviews on the legal profession. Of course, I should not really complain. The topic has proven to be great fodder…
WMT: Super Bowl Sunday Brings a Lawyer the Ultimate Viral Video
Know your audience. That is my response to the many “water cooler” conversations about what might be the most successful lawyer viral video to date. I’d love to know–and will likely ultimately ask him–what expectations Jamie Casino had when deciding to buy expensive and lengthy local TV ad time on…
ABA Journal CLE: Leveraging the Press — Marketing Yourself through the Media
Join me on February 13th in Washington, DC for a full-day tutorial on media and press relations, presented by the ABA Journal, in conjunction with the ABA Center for Professional Development. I still recall my old friend Dan Leary telling me about a conversation they were having in the Major…
LPT: ABA New Partner Conference Edition
In advance of the fourth edition of the ABA’s New Partner Conference, Law Practice Today highlights the topic with an issue dedicated to the theme of new partners. With the New Year upon us, many new partners are taking their places at the management tables of law firms throughout the…