Not exact matches
At the end of the day, if you aren't
about the
legal requirements governing content
marketing in your industry (if any), it's better to consult a
lawyer and keep yourself out of trouble.
Unfortunately, the podcast conflates the question of ethics with more basic concerns
about quality
marketing and thereby misses an opportunity to educate
lawyers about the proper management of professional writing services for practice
marketing — a perfectly legitimate method of building an online
legal presence.
Most articles
about Twitter in the
legal market focus on helping
lawyers make better use of the service for
marketing and business development purposes, and that's all to the good.
What we're really talking
about here is
lawyers tapping deep into the latent
legal market, creating a demand for
legal services that doesn't exist but that would be ethically and socially legitimate to bring to light.
But instead of lamenting the loss of a simpler time in
legal marketing, let's cut through the BS and talk
about what solo and small firm
lawyers can actually do to earn links that drive inquiries from potential clients.
That means our
market - leading
lawyer directory, our timely
legal blogs and the informative Learn
About the Law — all of these pages and their contents are going to look and perform wonderfully on screens big and small, and whether clicked with a mouse or tapped with a finger.
This is unfortunate since, as noted, blogs demonstrate expertise, and it is beneficial from a
marketing standpoint for a
lawyer to regularly remind clients
about his or her expertise (so the clients think of that
lawyer first when new
legal business arises).
I am passionate
about making sure
lawyers understand each component of an integrated
legal web
marketing strategy, not for what it is, or how it works, but for the way in which their clients use each component to make a decision to hire them or not...
Of course you can (and many do) argue
about the full extent of that monopoly, but the bottom line is that there is a large portion of the
legal services
market that today is reserved for
lawyers and for
lawyers only.
I think what most
lawyers forget
about legal directories are they have transformed into wonderful
marketing platforms for small law firms and solo
lawyers.
Fortunately, our
lawyer marketing experts know more
about reaching
legal consumers.
Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything
about our world and as
lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us
about what it means to be a
lawyer, the
market for
legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.
At Muse Communications, we have 30 years of experience writing for and
about lawyers, with 20 of those years spent in
legal PR and
marketing.
But be very careful
about buying into any
marketing suggesting that there's this untapped
market of great solo «startup
lawyers» just waiting to fill your startup's
legal needs at unbelievably low rates.
In this episode of The Un-Billable Hour, Christopher Anderson interviews
legal marketing consultant Mary Beth Monzingo
about the importance of
marketing a personal brand, how
lawyers can start building relationships and connections with potential clients, and tips to a successful online
marketing strategy.
They talk
about being the leading provider of
legal know - how, transactional analysis and
market intelligence for
lawyers.
And as much as the
legal internet
marketing police might find it incredulous, some
lawyers just don't care
about adding a bit of tarnish to their names.
But what
about the
lawyer - turned -
legal marketer who has never successfully
marketed a practice of their own?
The draft report accompanying the proposed changes gives a brief history of
legal outsourcing, tells readers how impressed they should be by how much background material the commission looked at before coming up with this draft, and has a throw - in line
about how sensitive the commission is to the current job
market for
lawyers.
Seeing students,
lawyers, business people, and others get excited
about the possibilities in the current
legal market and
about improving the quality of
legal services and access to justice is very satisfying.
In this episode we speak with the co-author of Rebooting Justice, Ben Barton,
about how making
legal technology and innovation a priority in law schools can help shape a
market that benefits both
lawyers and their potential clients.
On the other end of the
legal spectrum from Big Law, there is
about a $ 40 billion latent
market for consumer
legal services yet to be served by
lawyers.
The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind
lawyers to high - paying positions, worries
about an over-saturated job
market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the
legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.
Given the state of the
legal job
market, it seems that having expectations
about money that are too high may actually be the number one cause of unhappiness in
lawyers.
From the very first newsletter to the most recently launched blog, law firms have published content in order to increase
market awareness, principally by informing clients
about legal developments and promoting the expertise of
lawyers through their written work.
The report by the
legal marketing agency Greentarget and consultancy Zeughauser — the 2017 State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey — asked in - house counsel and buyers of legal services to grade the influence of a number of factors when searching for more information about
marketing agency Greentarget and consultancy Zeughauser — the 2017 State of Digital & Content
Marketing Survey — asked in - house counsel and buyers of legal services to grade the influence of a number of factors when searching for more information about
Marketing Survey — asked in - house counsel and buyers of
legal services to grade the influence of a number of factors when searching for more information
about lawyers.
This, per Topper, after your
marketing team has identified the hot issues that serve as the drivers for business development, what is driving
legal spend, what is driving decisions within corporations, then tipping off the
lawyers about these trends and encouraging them to be out in front on those issues.
Legal marketing expert Leah Norman writes about identity in terms of personal branding: «as it relates specifically to lawyers, personal branding is the strategic use of your legal expertise, professional appearance, experience and relationships to ensure that others view you in a particular light.&r
Legal marketing expert Leah Norman writes
about identity in terms of personal branding: «as it relates specifically to
lawyers, personal branding is the strategic use of your
legal expertise, professional appearance, experience and relationships to ensure that others view you in a particular light.&r
legal expertise, professional appearance, experience and relationships to ensure that others view you in a particular light.»
That's the irony: Lots of
lawyers are actually willing to provide their
legal help to the
market in exchange for an average of
about $ 35 an hour.
After 20 years in the
legal marketing business, and 20 years of hearing my clients complain
about «best
lawyer» lists, there are more of those lists now than ever.
We've already shared some of our thoughts
about how the
legal market is changing, and how
lawyers will evolve in the future.
It is also explicitly concerned
about the income test thresholds, that gap I talked
about between people who can qualify for
legal aid and those who actually could afford to get a private
market lawyer.
If you are a
lawyer or handle the
marketing for a law firm and have questions or concerns
about advertising on Yelp, it's important that you discuss this with a
legal marketing agency that has the experience of working with the sensitive nature of
lawyer reviews.
To learn more
about legal marketing, law firm
marketing, law
marketing,
lawyer website, law firm web design and attorney websites visit Seolawfirm.com or call 1.800.728.5306.
Here's a great career «success story» of one
lawyer - Denise Lash of Canadian
legal powerhouse Miller Thomson LLP - who leveraged her expertise in a fairly esoteric and dry practice area - condominium law - into a thriving media business - MondoCondo Media Group Inc. - that teaches consumers
about condominium ownership and helps developers and condo - related vendors
market to condo buyers.
For
lawyers, the great thing
about legal marketing is you can hire an expert to handle it for you.
You know all
about the myriad game - changing substitutes that have entered the
legal market over the past decade — technology that can carry out basic
legal tasks, outsourced platforms of flex - time
lawyers and managed
legal services providers, insourcing of work by corporate law departments themselves.
He told us
about their innovative business model and how it not only makes them more competitive in the Norwegian
legal market, but also allows their
lawyers to experience a better work / life balance.
Our conversations led to an extensive interview
about both my book, Law is A Buyer's
Market, and my thoughts on how lawyers and law firms can respond to the major shifts underway in the legal m
Market, and my thoughts on how
lawyers and law firms can respond to the major shifts underway in the
legal marketmarket.
Jennifer has had an unusual career in the
legal profession going from continuing legal education (CLE) professional to practicing lawyer to marketing expert and, in addition to our conversation about WordPress, she shares some «Alt Legal» career tips, so make sure to check out the inter
legal profession going from continuing
legal education (CLE) professional to practicing lawyer to marketing expert and, in addition to our conversation about WordPress, she shares some «Alt Legal» career tips, so make sure to check out the inter
legal education (CLE) professional to practicing
lawyer to
marketing expert and, in addition to our conversation
about WordPress, she shares some «Alt
Legal» career tips, so make sure to check out the inter
Legal» career tips, so make sure to check out the interview.
And truth be told, even the best SEO or the most experienced
legal marketing expert can't make a definitive statement
about whether a
lawyer's best potential client will type in «Minneapolis Personal Injury
Lawyer» or «Twin Cities Auto Accident Claim».
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To date, much of the discussion
about re-inventing
legal services has been disproportionately directed at
lawyers who serve the corporate
market.
Lawyers around the world are talking
about it, law firms and
legal companies are winning awards for it, and clients are choosing law firms that incorporate it into their
marketing and service delivery.
From Lemons to Lemonade (which I didn't purchase, by the way — this was a free review copy) starts by talking in detail
about the «untapped
legal job
market,» which includes things such as JD - preferred jobs, «hidden» jobs that aren't necessarily advertised but can be uncovered with some due diligence, and less commonly considered options, including small town
lawyering and teaching outside of law schools.
He is also regularly invited to teach
lawyers about online
legal marketing.
In this episode of the
Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast, Adrian Dayton joins us to talk
about evaluating data so
lawyers and marketers can make more informed decisions when it comes to crafting a social media strategy.
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lawyers about the unique
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For more than 17 years I've worked in
legal marketing, I've been keenly listening to clients
about how they choose their
lawyer, what irritates them and why they leave.
For the first episode, Sam talks to criminal defense
lawyer and former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz
about his book, Letters to a Young
Lawyer and got his updated advice for young
lawyers entering law practice in the current
legal market.