Top 10 Most-Popular Law Firm Retreat and Marketing Training Topics Law firm retreats have changed in the past couple decades. There was a “money’s no object” philosophy in the high-flying extravaganzas in the 1990s and early 2000s. Then the industry…

The Single MOST-Important Tip to Writing a Successful Attorney Marketing Plan. I’ve helped lawyers draft marketing plans for lawyers for 25 years and here’s my best tip: Focus. That is, before asking attorneys to fill out their individual…

Four weeks. Five cities. Ten presentations. I have a pretty busy speaking schedule over the next month, presenting 10 times in 4 weeks in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Los Angeles, and Denver (the schedule is below). If you’re in the neighborhood…

Helping Law Students Build a More-Successful Careers. I had the best time last week, standing on stage in Tull Auditorium at my alma mater, Emory Law School and presenting an hour-long speech to the shiny new first-year law students at the…

Conducting law marketing training in Tel Aviv, Israel. Last week, I had the honor and privilege to speak in Tel Aviv on marketing and networking to the partners at Israel’s largest firm, Herzog, Fox & Ne’eman. HFN is a terrific…

Offering Joint Networking Training to Your Firm AND Clients A friend asked how she could encourage her firm to market more closely and effectively with their financial-institution clients. My favorite way is offering joint marketing training. Banks like giving their…

Q: Should we pay our associates to market? A: Uh… No. I answered this question on a listserv recently, posed by a legal marketer whose firm was revamping its bonus schedule. The bonus was intended to motivate associates to…

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I’m looking forward to addressing the HLAI (Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois) again. This marketing presentation will be for the HLAI and the HLAI Business-Development and Practice-Development Committees. This follow-up presentation will be entitled “50 Marketing Ideas in 50 Minutes,” on…

What is a client…? One of the best definitions I’ve seen came from the website of Denver law firm Fairfield and Woods, quoting one of its long-time partners: “A client is a friend with a problem.” – Charles J. Beise, 1909-1983….