Law Firm Marketing and Business Development

  • While General Counsel are becoming involved in more areas of the business, especially as a result of COVID, their core responsibility remains enterprise risk. The conversation at a recent general counsel panel at the Southern California Marketing Partners Forum examined the evolution of the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel roles, especially in light of increasingly lean staffs and support and the ways in which outside counsel may be well-positioned to help bring more resources, more support, and more collaboration to the relationship.

    April 01, 2023Eric Dewey
  • It's not your grandmother's legal marketing department. It's not even your mother's. For a marketer focused on media relations, the journalistic landscape is very different now and it affects the practice of media relations. For just as legal marketing departments have been growing, newsrooms have been shrinking. So what's a lawyer and her PR guy to do?

    April 01, 2023Joshua M. Peck
  • People refer business to those they like and trust, and both are equally important. Someone may believe we are the best at what we do, but if they don't really like us, they are not going to refer business to us. So, how do we begin to inspire trust and confidence in the first meeting?

    April 01, 2023Stephanie Friese
  • Almost daily, I receive an email promising better SEO rankings, better news pick up for a law firm press release, a better law firm website, blog and social media content that will bring in clients, and access to contacts across the globe. Unfortunately, these sales pitches are usually a colossal waste of time. Here are some examples of solicitations that should be deleted as soon as you receive them.

    March 01, 2023Gina F. Rubel
  • Uncertain and challenging markets are times when firms and organizations of all types conserve cash. If this can be achieved without cutting needed projects, equipment or services to ensure successful returns to the office, then this is clearly an ideal financial strategy.

    March 01, 2023Mike Henderson, Whitney Jones, and Bill Pitcairn
  • This article describes each website traffic source. describes the mindset of the typical visitor that each attracts. and provides information on the type of content that is best suited to serve as a landing page for each channel.

    February 01, 2023Keith Ecker
  • Starting in late 2021, the drumbeat of "return-to-the-office" began and now — somewhere in the neighborhood of two years later of that — it begs the question: how are firms doing with their return-to-office? What programs — if any — have been successful?

    February 01, 2023Anthony Davies