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«In terms of her use of social media — and her writing — Chrissie Lightfoot is the nearest thing the legal market has to Kim Kardashian» Charles Christian, Owner and Editor at Legal IT Insider and The Orange Rag, UK.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

But things are changing fast: on New Year's Day, recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California, creating the world's largest legal market.

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To lack money is to lack the means whereby, in a market society, one obtains legal permission to do things, e.g., travel on the train from London to Liverpool.

for those people now «stuck» with their house... I'd do two things, (1) I'd get some legal help and look to determine what damage has been done to the property and seek to either force the company to buy up my land and home at the fair market value WITHOUT it being contaminated, or make up the difference on any sale that comes along (which probably won't happen now that people will know what they're getting into).

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

That's another thing markets don't handle well, besides environmental problems that span political boundaries and national legal systems — problems that exist over an extended period of time.

FindLaw's local expertise is one of the things that distinguish us as a legal web marketing company.

Enrico Schaefer at The Greatest American Lawyer suggests the shrinking BigLaw sector may not be a bad thing at a macro level since it will provide an opportunity for foundational change in the market for legal services as new legal service models (e.g., alternative billing) start competing with the traditional approaches (e.g., billable hour), and clients start to have real choices.

With each next - best - thing in legal marketing outdoing the last, plain old business cards — even those with the most subtle off - white coloring and tasteful thickness — no longer make the cut.

Changing a few simple things around in your legal marketing efforts could help drive more leads and generate new business.

In our last post, we identified three things you can control in your legal marketing program.

As time has passed, things have changed and, for better and worse, continue so to do, so that some of the solutions and research products and services coming onto the market are more likely to have been conceived in university computer departments rather than in legal practice or faculties of law.

What powers social media and what powers legal marketing is really the same thing: the trustworthy recommendation.

But it does seem clear that information asymmetry is a «thing» and that it is particularly applicable in the legal services market and that market failure is a consequence of information asymmetry.

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.

Advocacy Committee: The Advocacy Committee focuses on coordinating efforts to deal with, among other things, issues of barriers to the legal profession by internationally trained lawyers, diversity in the legal community, access to justice, and the role of Canadians in global legal markets.

John is the author of A Comprehensive Guide to the Asia - Pacific Legal Markets, a hallmark publication that defines John as a leading authority on all things related to services in the Asia - Pacific.

One thing is for sure, we will continue to build game - changing technology with the latest advances in artificial intelligence built in for the legal market — we can't wait!

We really felt the time was right to take legal search to another level, and I think one of the things about being in business is that you don't want to be behind the market, yet at the same time you don't necessarily want to be massively ahead of the market in terms of giving people whiz - bang technology that they're not really ready for.

But I think that, besides relentlessly applying for jobs, there are some things you could be doing to improve your chances of future employment, as the legal job market starts to improve.

«I think we're an evolving legal market where constantly things are tried and if they don't work we try something else,» he says.

On the whole, in a traditional law firm, the lawyers do a number of different things, ranging from marketing and lead generation through the actual legal work, and potentially even other activities.

Among other things, we discussed legal technology, law practice management, legal marketing, and more.

Before the New Year, we recommend spending some time considering the things you know will happen during the next 12 months and how you can use that information to spotlight your stellar work and find legal marketing success.

Similar things happen with legal marketing.

So if you were a bar regulator, you would think, «Oh look, here's a competitor to Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer and instead of trying to drive them out of business we should let them do their thing and hope that there's some place for lawyers in this low end of the market.»

When it comes to legal marketing, there are many things that can work, like blogging, teaching CLEs, or using Twitter, but there is only one thing I can think of that definitely works: word of mouth.

Years ago, when I first started researching the legal website marketing space, this was one of the things that surprised me the most.

Despite my annoyance at the monotonous repetition of this fact (the legal market is always changing, but rarely changes much), there are two things that really do seem to be changing for many lawyers: fees and the value of bar associations.

Another judge observed: «A convincing app — still a rare thing in the legal market.»

It is important to us that this presentation reflects on those conversations and connects to the trends they are seeing in their own businesses and the narratives that we see forming out in the legal market which try to help explain why things are moving in the way they are.

In today's buyer's market for legal services, clients expect certain things of a lawyer — of you.

The program will include topics such as: legal market statistics; the one thing EVERY legal vendor should do... and it's free; where to get marketing research; stats on purchasing budgets and trends; working with the new legal media landscape; and content marketing insights.

Key note speaker Jordan Furlong and legal tech guru Sally Gonzalez will discuss the changing legal market and the importance of knowledge management, among other things.

For lawyers entering the world of legal marketing, social media and web 2.0, the concept of blogging is a tough thing to grasp.

[16] On the opportunities that «deregulation» of the legal services market would offer in relation to the «justice gap,» see, for example, Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall and Vikram Maheshri, First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers (Washington D.C: R.R. Donnelley, 2011), 91 - 93.

Clients» desire to avoid falling foul of evolving EU data privacy legislation is continuing to shape the eDiscovery market and Andrew Szczech, director of legal technology services at Kroll Ontrack, told Legal IT Insider: «The thing that people are talking about with regard to global eDiscovery is that data privacy is driving the way eDiscovery services are provlegal technology services at Kroll Ontrack, told Legal IT Insider: «The thing that people are talking about with regard to global eDiscovery is that data privacy is driving the way eDiscovery services are provLegal IT Insider: «The thing that people are talking about with regard to global eDiscovery is that data privacy is driving the way eDiscovery services are provided.

While other professions such as accountancy and marketing have found ways of producing outcomes faster, cheaper and better using automation tools and daring to rethink things, the legal profession lags behind.

Simon Levine, the firm's co-global chief executive said in a statement that Gouws» hire was a sign of things to come: «We are committed to growing and developing our presence in Africa to provide our clients with the specialist legal services they need in a key growth market.»

LegalBiz states that most legal marketing departments continue to focus on the wrong things.

Client comments as published in the legal directories and guides include: «A first - class mind and clearly a silk in the making»; «a QC in waiting»; «a very bright, uber - responsive, rising star»; «formidable advocate able to stand up to commercial silks and senior juniors»; «an extremely impressive and effective advocate who gets on top of things extremely fast and is quick on his feet»; «complete grasp of all current developments, strategic input and forceful yet polite cross-examination»; «undoubted star junior who goes well past the extra mile in preparing his cases»; «brilliant, completely committed to the brief; a great all - rounder»; «intellectually very strong»; «very sharp and to the point»; «ringing endorsements from the market»; «impressive and knows his stuff»; «razor sharp legal skills»; «comes up with extremely clever points» with an ability «to handle hearings with utmost self - possession and confidence and produce some first - class advocacy»; «a thorough and thoughtful advocate who has an agreeable but tough courtroom manner»; «very proactive and, once instructed, takes control of a case and pushes it forward to the advantage of the client»; «has the ability to sift through complex legal problems, and present practical legal solutions that not only win you the battles, but also the war»; «very commercial and savvy»; «infectious passion for the law»; «his commitment to his work is outstanding»; «relentless energy and precise attention to detail make him invaluable.»

In legal marketing, many things can work, but there is only one thing that definitely works, every time: word of mouth.

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Those are the things that help you distinguish yourself from the crowd because now you're saying, «Hey, look, this is actual positive client feedback that I'm putting to work to demonstrate my, whatever you call it, unique selling proposition,» or what helps you stand out from all of the other legal marketing that just reads like we're super aggressive, we fight really hard, we have 500 years of experience and we went to the best law school.

At Attorneys Online, we are always looking for new and fun things to try — whether it's about legal marketing or social events!

John Stewart: The only thing we do know is that this collection of people make up a significant piece of an untapped market and that I think we largely believe that the bulk of this untapped market are people that can afford legal services, just not in the way these services are currently delivered.

Whilst that's a part of things, it ignores a fundamental part of the market — the in - house community that buys legal services.

To make things worse, there are digital marketing companies that overcharge their clients by building WordPress website that anyone can build on their own for the fraction of the price In the competitive legal industry, it is important to stand out from the competition.