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Beyond Se Habla Español: Changing How Attorneys Market to the Growing Hispanic Population
Law firms frequently lack the appropriate marketing strategies to engage the growing U.S. Hispanic population. The lack of a cohesive strategy poses a risk to a law firm's current and future growth potential. This article explores practical insights for law firms that want to serve this rapidly expanding market.
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Business Development: Biz Dev on a Budget: The Reality for Small and Midsize Firms
If you're still stuck in "making a business case" for the tools needed to perform data analyses to unlock value, uncover trends and identify practice correlations to drive revenue, it's not the end of the world just yet!
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Media & Communications: Getting Routine Law Firm News Published Still Delivers Value
Value can be derived from even the most-routine media placement of law firm news such as lateral and other attorney moves. With challenges and roadblocks going up almost daily to deter you from getting any news published by credible media sites, why in the world would you not take advantage of every conceivable opportunity to get your press releases and announcements published for free?
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Make Law Firm Culture Part of the Equation In a Potential Career Move
When you are looking to make a career move, be sure to learn about the potential employer's culture before you accept an offer. It is important to select not only a great place to work, but a place that is the right choice for you as an individual.
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Professional Development: Firm Culture: Part of the Equation In a Career Move
Law firm culture is the values the lawyers feel on a daily basis, the assumptions lawyers make when making decisions, the real behaviors that fuel the organization's success and serves as a competitive advantage. This is what you will want to understand during the recruiting process.
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Addressing the Spiral of Silence In Law Firms: Fostering Open Communication
The "Spiral of Silence" can mean workers don't feel comfortable sharing their opinion or voicing concerns about how they or others are being treated. This allows mistreatment and biases to go unchecked at an individual level and can also result in a secondary spiral in which workers feel they are not able to fully express their personal identity in the workplace.
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COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Competitive Intelligence On a Dime
Simple and Cost-Effective Ways to Help Your Firm Harness the Power of Competitive Intelligence Many products and trainings promise to help with or automate your competitive intelligence research, but getting good data does not have to be so complicated or expensive. Here are some tips for how you can leverage competitive intelligence in your marketing efforts without a significant cost.
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LEADERSHIP IN LAW: Rapid Innovation Is Scary, But Necessary for Law Firm Leaders
To achieve the goal of accomplishing the seemingly insurmountable task of preparing leaders to shepherd firms in the post-pandemic world demands an approach similar to what enabled society to create the COVID vaccine in record time: a unique set of circumstances, dedicated focus and sufficient resources.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Five Simple Ways Business Development & Marketing Teams Can Make a Meaningful Difference
The benefits that business development and marketing teams can bring to the firm and to its attorneys, individually, are multi-faceted, invaluable and sometimes wonderfully unexpected.
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MARKETING TECH: Upping Your New Business Game with AI
With demand for technology innovation and efficiency at an all-time high, we can look to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to help streamline and automate proposal and RFP management, and bridge the gap between increases in RFP requests and lower win rates.
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