Top 10 Rules to Marketing a Law Firm Merger or Branch office (Part II). Last week we detailed five marketing and reputation challenges faced by smaller or newer “satellite” offices of prominent law firms. (BTW, accounting and all other professional-services firms…
Rebranding an established local firm is tough. Imagine it’s fraternity rush and you’re a hot prospect. You’re smart, handsome, and athletic—you’re in demand and have received many solid offers. Which one will you accept? Most likely you’ll end up at…
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…
Ross’s Top 10 Law Firm Domain Name Mistakes (Part I) What’s Your Law Firm’s Domain Name? YourName.com Back in the mid-90s, we were just starting to develop the first law firm websites. As Marketing Partner of Ungaretti & Harris in the…
Little Orphan Annie’s Commentary on Law Firm Client Service. I came upon this “Annie” comic strip somewhere decades ago and have discussed it ever since in my Client-Service training classes for lawyers. If even Daddy Warbucks can’t get lawyers to return his…
Free Sample of our Most-Popular Marketing Checklist Attached below is a free sample of our “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist (The Renowned Step-By-Step, Year-By-Year Process For Lawyers Who Want To Develop Clients)” book. This 2016 edition is a significantly updated…
Crazy Holiday Cards from two ERISA law firms! Yeah, I said ERISA firms. I like ERISA lawyers. I find them to be smart, sincere, and hard working. But their reputation isn’t generally as the life of the party. You wouldn’t ordinarily…
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…
“Have Yourself an Unindicted Christmas” Law Firm Holiday Card I always enjoy the style and sense of humor of Waco, Texas criminal and civil lawyers Will Hutson and Chris Harris at full-service Hutson & Harris. My previous favorite ditty was the practical advice…
I LOVE this card. As you might know from my historic blog posts, I’m often very critical of law firm e-cards — there are so many ways firms can get them wrong. They’re too long, too dull, too cliche’d. They’re…