Gaining Firm Acceptance of a Profitability Model
As law firms grow in size, and expand geographically and across practice areas, the use of firm-wide profitability tools has become a business necessity. But understanding the urgency to adopt or update a profitability model doesn't guarantee its successful implementation.
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Web Networks Reprogram Law Firm Marketing
Experts see social networks as the next wave of business opportunities to come from the Web ' opportunities that are being exploited by small startups and companies as large as The Coca-Cola Co.
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Man Fired for Visiting Adult Chat Room Sues and Claims Addiction<br>RIAA Denounces New Fair Use Bill
Lawyers Should Heed Bob Dylan's Words
Bob Dylan is the most cited musician in law, according to Oklahoma City University School of Law professor Alex B. Long. Dylan has twice the judicial and scholarly citations (160) of his nearest competitor, the Beatles (74), says Long. How does that affect you?
<b><i>Commentary:</b></i> Bloggers' Big News Needs Scaling Down
As they come, this judicial first wasn't exactly front-page news ' that is, if you are still in the habit of reading a quaint, old-fashioned newspaper. But in cyberspace, the decision of the U.S. District Court to include bloggers as bona fide members of the press pool during the recent 'Scooter' Libby trial was big news. For the first time ever in a federal court case, bloggers were officially welcomed as equals with newspaper and broadcast reporters, albeit in a little room down the hall from the actual trial in Courtroom 16.
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<i>Technology in Marketing</i>: What Law Firms Can Learn from How the Swiss Sell Cheese
Law firms don't sell cheese or perfume ' they sell expertise. So how does one provide prospective clients with a 'taste' or 'spray' of something so intangible? The same question could be asked concerning existing clients. Given the marketing axiom that it is more cost-effective to generate additional business from existing clients than to sign up new accounts, how does a firm cross-sell other areas of expertise to existing clients whose exposure to the firm has been limited thus far to a single practice area?
Viacom v. YouTube
This suit is potentially dealing with a very important issue that goes way beyond YouTube's actions or inactions ' the scope of the DMCA in today's Internet. The technology being utilized by YouTube was not even imagined a decade ago when the DMCA was enacted. <br>However, it is open for speculation that this suit, coming such a short time following a negotiations break-down between the parties on entering into a licensing arrangement, is just a negotiation strategy, gambit or ploy by Viacom for a more favorable deal.
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'Attorney Man' Teaches Truth, Justice and the Marketing Way
A new comic gives marketing tips in a humorous format.
Blog Defamation
The age of the blog ' and the blawg (the legal Web log) ' is here. And with the blawgs has arrived more salient information across the spectrum of knowledge than has ever before been easily available to people ' literally at their fingertips. But with that expanded menu of data bits has also come the potential for indigestion over acid words.
<i>Sales and Service Strategies</i>: Law Firm Culture and the Effect upon Women Rainmakers
Law firm culture is the primary obstacle to business development, according to LSSO's Women Lawyers Survey: Sales and Business Development Issues. Out of the 418 participants who responded, more than 40% of female lawyers suggest that various organizational and institutional barriers inhibit their ability to be successful at sales.
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