I often get asked whether firm holiday cards are effective. The answer? I think that they can be considered one more nice way to stay in touch, to send a friendly communication to a large number of clients and prospects…
Need a law firm tag line? Try one of these. Describe your entire firm in just a few words. No generalities that apply to every other firm like “Our Business is Business,” or “When Success Matters.” No three one-word alliterative…
Squire Patton Boggs – where’s the website? There’s been some discussion lately regarding the impressive mega-merger between Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs, and the delay in getting a new combined website online. (See e.g. John Byrne’s post in “The Byrne Blog.”)…
I’ve never seen business cards distributed like THIS before. I was walking through a large public parking lot recently when I passed by this car with a magnetic sign on the door selling Pre-Paid Legal Services. Mildly interesting from a marketing…
Abe Lincoln’s 25-cent marketing speech We’ve all seen the 1858-59 print advertisements where Abe Lincoln announced the formation of his new law firm, Lincoln & Herndon, in Springfield, Illinois. But did you know that Abe Lincoln also gave marketing and…
Marketing and Biz Dev Training for Litigators A marketer asked whether litigators require unique marketing and client-development training. She’d been hearing from the litigators that they felt the nature of a litigation practice is somehow different, that it requires special techniques and training. They…
With few exceptions, names work better than initials. You’d think it’d be pretty obvious. But accounting firms curiously LOVE their initials. The problem is, initials don’t mean anything. They’re gibberish. Which one is easiest to remember if you wanted to Google…
Should we offer marketing training to our summer associates? Yes. But only under certain restrictions. I’ve been asked to conduct a lot of summer-associate training over the years, but only rarely have I done it exclusively for the summer kids….
The Best ACC Conference Giveaways. Part One. I was speaking at a Meritas conference a little while ago, which was timed to coincide with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual conference. We’d designed Meritas’s new booth, so we went…
Sign up for this ABA webinar on Friday at 12:00 noon CST! Moderated by the terrific Kathy Morris, I’m co-presenting a marketing webinar with the verbally formidable Julie Eichorn. Just 45 fast-paced minutes, we’re going to pack a lot of content into a…