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'Attorney Man' Teaches Truth, Justice and the Marketing Way Image

'Attorney Man' Teaches Truth, Justice and the Marketing Way

Jennifer Wand

A new comic gives marketing tips in a humorous format.

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Blog Defamation

Jonathan Bick

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 Image

<i>Sales and Service Strategies</i>: Law Firm Culture and the Effect upon Women Rainmakers

Catherine Alman MacDonagh & Marcie Borgal Shunk

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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<i>The Place to Network</i>: Creative Networking Programs to Catalyze Client Development Image

<i>The Place to Network</i>: Creative Networking Programs to Catalyze Client Development

Christy Burke

Networking has become extremely important for law firms, especially now that the legal business is growing more and more competitive. If your attorneys are not getting out there to stake claim to new relationships (and new matters), someone else will. Fortunately, attorneys and firm marketing professionals who are at the forefront of networking have developed innovative programs to assist attorneys in making a stranger into an acquaintance, an acquaintance into a prospect, and a prospect into a client. Ah ' the circle of life!

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April 2007 issue in PDF Format

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<i>Career Journal</i>: The Hunt for Marketing Talent Image

<i>Career Journal</i>: The Hunt for Marketing Talent

Eva Wisnik & Jennifer Johnson

When we are hired to begin a new search, the very first thing we hear from our clients' mouths is 'Ideally, we would like someone with X years in law firm marketing.' If you analyze the AmLaw 100 law firms, which combined have more than 2000 marketing professionals, coupled with the fact that at any moment there are more than 100 open positions nationwide, there are more jobs than qualified professionals to meet these needs. So, how do employers find the 'right' talent for their firm in this competitive environment? How do the people with law firm marketing experience find the 'right' firm, since they are in high demand by every firm? Below we have outlined some tips for those who are hiring and those looking to be hired.

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Centralized Management for e-Discovery and Litigation Support

Chad Papenfuss

Faced with an overworked litigation support department, as well as an inefficient manual- and paper-based approach, I hunted for an automated platform to help my team streamline our current inefficient processes and more effectively manage the discovery process. The platform needed to set up repeatable processes, facilitate both internal and external collaboration, disseminate information and establish business rules and pricing for vendors.

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Must-Sue TV

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Not to be left behind, the legal community is actively engaged in the ever-expanding blogoshpere. With more than 1000 active legal blogs on the Web, firms and attorneys recognize the value of blogs as unique marketing and business development tools. However, for a blog to be beneficial, it must distinguish itself from the diluted market through creativity, consistency, and a strategic media plan.

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Protecting Your Firm Against Internet Threats

Christy Burke

Everyone today is on high alert about the threats of Internet fraud, identity theft and white-collar crime ' or if not, they should be. Internet criminals are constantly cultivating new tactics, and law enforcement entities are doing everything they can to head them off.

<b>Practice Tip:</b> Managing Your Metadata Image

<b>Practice Tip:</b> Managing Your Metadata

Judye Carter Reynolds

New amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ('FRCP') identify electronically stored information, tangible and intangible, as discoverable (relevant, non-privileged) information. To ensure compliance, firms are required to adopt policies regarding the preservation, retention, and destruction of all digital data including their metadata. Litigators are pressed to develop some expertise on the types and locations of document, application and system metadata with the expectation that all metadata may have evidentiary value. The demands are on the IT professionals to deliver a copy or description of all relevant electronic media, their location, and category without delay and be able to substantiate the firm's retention policies.

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