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Most, if not all, law firms have a professional presence online these days, so that is no longer a key differentiator ' but what they do with these websites is. Smart firms are moving away from static text-only websites that look just like their competitors' websites and are rarely, if ever, updated with fresh content. And they're doing something else, too: focusing on branding.

The CEO of a $12 billion company summed it up neatly when he told me, "During a first meeting, I can always tell how experienced a banker or lawyer is by the quality of the questions they ask." Many lawyers, however, prefer to tell rather than ask and listen.

When a client hires a marketing firm for advisory services, how is it much different than trusting the waiter at a restaurant? If you think about it, there really is no difference ' unless you are able to contribute something more to the relationship.

Wow, what a year 2011 was. While the economy barely hung on for many law firms that had once seemed invincible, our legal marketing colleagues around the country were busy innovating to heights not seen before in our professional space. It is a great time to be engaged in marketing law firms, indeed.

A lawyer's attempt to shield himself from discipline via a release in a divorce agreement was not only void ' it was itself an ethics violation, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled.

Issues relating to one's child or children, whether in an intact family or not, can often present difficult challenges. Typically, the challenges faced by separated parents have the potential to get significantly more complicated than those faced by intact families.

None of those who have written on the subject of performing parenting evaluations has asserted that the task is an easy one. There has, however, been broad agreement among writers in the mental health fields, and reasonable clarity in law, concerning the objective that evaluators should endeavor to meet.

Rulings that affect your practice.