“Our 15-year-old firm has 275 Years of Experience” Wait, what? Ohhhh, I get it — you are aggregating every single one of your lawyer’s total years of experience into a single figure. One question — So what? How does a combined number help…
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Howard Law Group featured in Legal Intelligencer We’re pretty proud of the Howard Law Group website. It’s simple, bold, and well branded, nicely capturing the sizable strength and skill of Bill and Jean Howard’s national litigation practice. It’s also nice when…
The “Smiling Lawyers” Website Home Page Trap Smiling lawyers – the latest boring website cliché. For 25 years, I’ve been railing against the obvious, literal visual “Law” clichés — the gavels, globes, columns, skylines, buildings, handshakes, blurry lawyers running, silhouettes…
The “Smiling Lawyers” Website Home Page Trap Smiling lawyers – the latest boring website cliché. For 25 years, I’ve been railing against the obvious, literal visual “Law” clichés — the gavels, globes, columns, skylines, buildings, handshakes, blurry lawyers running, silhouettes…
Branding Litigation Firms: 5 Law Firm Case Studies On the surface, all five law firms seemed relatively similar — dynamic boutiques led by tough, trial-oriented fighters. But each was much more than that. Each firm’s brand needed to showcase its unique…
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (“Little Red Riding Hood”) “Lorem ipsum dolor” is so mundane. Marketers know that when showing clients a new advertisement, website, brochure, newsletter, or other layout, you “greek” in some gibberish that looks like words, but it really isn’t. It helps keep…
In Marketing, when you have the facts, USE them. [A brand and website overhaul for a 300-win trial law firm.] The Howard Law Group is a national business and civil litigation firm, handling some of the nation’s biggest, ugliest, and most-complicated bet-the-company…
Life isn’t easy when you grow up as a Cubs fan. I had my little 9-year-old heart broken in 1969, and things haven’t improved much in the 45 years since then. Anyway, back in 2007, Fishman Marketing represented a terrific St…
A light-hearted recollection of LMA’s first 20 years. The Legal Marketing Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary, an amazing accomplishment. Click here for the LMA video detailing some of its many accomplishments. Ten years ago, I wrote a cover story…
(Blog post 3 of 3) Tag lines are hard – a small handful of strategically selected words that encapsulate everything you stand for and want your target audience to know about you. In this 3-part post, we detail some of…
