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Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course

Kimberly Alford Rice

For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where Women in the Law rank in the legal services sector, I say 'phooey'. Yes, the numbers stink; yes, there are real barriers, discrimination, disappointing treatment from law firm leadership, but hey, we are women 'with a capitol W' as the phrase goes.

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Different Faces of Follow Up

Kimberly Alford Rice

Though follow up can take many different approaches, the overall non-negotiable component involves any action step which provokes the other party (existing client, prospect, etc.) to want to continue contact with you.

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Extend Beyond Showing Up

Kimberly Alford Rice

One of the interminable bumps lawyers experience in their efforts to cultivate new clients and business is in following up with their new contacts, growing network and even their best clients. We examine how to introduce and tweak a follow-up plan. Read on to see what I mean.

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Are You Falling Down on Following Up?

Kimberly Alford Rice

Of all the marketing initiatives that are critical for lawyers to commit to, the most basic and seemingly obvious is the 'sin' of omission - - the failure to follow up.

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Time to Tweak (not Twerk)

Kimberly Alford Rice

Many lawyers generally know what they need to do to grow their practice (foster business relationships) but they need to tweak the execution and the follow up steps which are imperative to growing a client roster.

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Charting a Different Course: A Woman Lawyer's Checklist

Kimberly Alford Rice

For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where Women in the Law rank in the legal services sector, I say 'pooie'. Yes, the numbers…

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Is Your Firm GPS-Less?

Kimberly Alford Rice

To avoid random acts of marketing and senseless spending, law firms, large and small, should develop and implement a solid marketing plan and budget as essential business planning tools -- a map to assure they arrive at their desired destination of profitable clients and a healthy practice.

Is Your Firm GPS-Less? Image

Is Your Firm GPS-Less?

Kimberly Alford Rice

To avoid random acts of marketing and senseless spending, law firms, large and small, should develop and implement a solid marketing plan and budget as essential business planning tools -- a map to assure they arrive at their desired destination of profitable clients and a healthy practice.

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STONE COLD DEAD IN THE MARKET

Bruce Marcus

Ok, everybody talks about marketing, and markets, and how to reach them ' but has anyone stopped to define what a market really is?We all tend to take…

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There's A Leak in My Firm

Bruce Marcus

OK, somebody talked to the press, and leaked information that shouldn't have been leaked. That's three problems, not one. Primary, of course, is how we control the damage caused by the leak. Then we worry about who did it.

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