Lawful Data-Mining of Social Networks
To avoid legal difficulties when you mine information about people from social-network locations, make sure you employ three particular policies when using information mined from blogs. Here's how to proceed.
Client Speak: Capturing the Current Mood
Implicit in all the stories about layoffs or hourly versus value billing, the fundamental question is whether the severity of the economic downturn will permanently change what law firms look like and how they operate. Can they ever again support the notorious salary structures and leverage strategies of the past?
Career Journal: Does Having a J.D. Help a Career in Legal Marketing?
The marketing function is expanding within law firms. Despite of, or perhaps because of, the legal industry's economic woes of late, the expectations around marketing ' from increased business development to enhanced practice support ' has never been greater. Do you need a J.D. to have a career in marketing?
Do More with Less and Gain Market Share
The current economic situation is forcing firms to think of new ways to market themselves, which likely will become the new norm, long after the downturn is history.
Do Comparative Lawyer Rankings Run Afoul of Ethical Guidelines?
The ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, adopted in many jurisdictions, now allow attorney advertisements but restrict "misleading" communications. Significantly, such misleading communications may include unsubstantiated comparisons to other lawyers.
RICO
Smithfield Foods' precedent-setting civil racketeering suit against the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union (UFCW) and several related defendants spawned critically important legal precedent that blazes a new trail for employers who are in search of litigation options for responding to non-traditional union organizing methods.
RED ZONE PURGATORY - LEGAL SALES
RED ZONE PURGATORY - How to Navigate Through the Netherworld of Legal Sales There is a time - perhaps only a split second - between when your firm and a prospective client are engaged in a tete a tete about what to do next on a project or potential engagement. It is that moment that lies between what you and your client decide to do next and the RED ZONE. And whether the time purgatory lasts…
