A longtime reader of our newsletter emailed us with a problem sometime back and has asked us to share it as a cautionary tale for other expert witnesses:Expert Witness -- An individual located my expert services online approximately one year…

You might have heard some version of the adage, "If you can't be a good example, you can serve as a warning." Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia's business school and expert witness for Countywide Finacial apparently took it to heart…

To keep me from pacing during the championship games today, I'm cleaning out my "To Read" stack and want to share just a few of the highlights about expert witnessing from around the internet.Here's an interesting discussion: Would you want…

Here’s something many lawyers overlook: You don’t need a company to build a brand. That’s right; you can build your own personal brand by promoting yourself online. You don’t need a fancy logo or a catchphrase. All you need is your…

We would like to give a special thank you to Robert Ambrogi. Marketing On Trial received our first mention ever on  June 10th, 2012 via Robert Ambrogi of his LawSites legal marketing blog. It feels great to have our name on a fellow legal…

Whether you’re a lawyer, a judge or a magician, if you want to find your site on the first page of Google (and other search engines), you need quality content. That’s right: even magic doesn’t trump content. Your articles need to be…

Every now and then some pattern strikes me as interesting. I have been talking with several people about politics, and I know that is always dangerous but what the heck. Anyway I began to notice a trend from people that were very emotional…

Whether written as a mission statement, spoken or merely understood, your firm’s culture describes and governs the ways you and your staff think, feel and act. I would say that your culture starts with your logo because that is the first…

People in every firm we have visited talk about building a team, working as a team, or their team, but few understood how to create team work or how to develop a high performance team. Being part of a team has a lot to do with the…

When law firms consider using WordPress to develop their website, they are often interested as to what other companies and organizations are using WordPress.  The fact is there are literally tens of millions of blogs and websites that use…

WordPrESQ Founder Jeff Lantz will be presenting at this year’s Indiana Solo & Small Firm Conference May 31-June 2.   For more information visit http://www.inbar.org/Events/SoloSmallFirmConference/tabid/287/Default.aspx.

According to WordPress, the 18,000 + plugins that have been downloaded for the WordPress platform now exceed 270 million.  What we find the most amazing is that over the past year or so, the number of downloads appears to be growing at an…

I have changed blogs, and you can now follow what I have to share at: http://socialmediamarketingforlawfirms.com Thank you for visiting me. Regards, Eria

Here’s a thought for lawyers looking to attract clients using social media… Your social web (i.e. the set of social relations that link you to your prospects, clients and peers through the Internet) means that increasingly, your…

How do you measure the success of your law firm social media campaigns? Measuring the success of social media activity remains a key challenge for many lawyers. Getting hard facts on the number of new leads or the impact on the bottom line as…

The rapid march of BigLaw globalization continues.

What's BigLaw doing in this "down" economy? Getting bigger. Looking for opportunities to add greater value. Opening offices, merging, forming alliances.

Or just sitting at home, watching the world go by from the comfort of your office? When was the last time you traveled outside the country? What languages do you speak? Can you carry on a conversation in a foreign tongue? Have you ever tried?…

This month The Legal Intelligencer has been running an excellent series on how law firms fared during the recession and where they’re headed in the recovery.  The first looked at law firm staffing models, use of associates and practice…

Altman Weil just released its eleventh annual Chief Legal Officer Survey, including responses from 174 CLOs surveyed in September and October 2010. 

“With the recession making associate hours almost unbillable to corporate clients, law firms are finding themselves with a surplus of manpower and in a hiring dilemma: stop recruiting altogether or find ways to bring in and train new talent…

According to the Church of the Customer Blog, a new Nielsen study confirms, once again, that word of mouth referrals are still the most trusted form of advertising out there.

Thanks to JD Hull for linking to an old post of his on what he tells his associates. The comment by Mr. Robins below isn't bad, either. Here's the (partial) quote from JD Hull: Every day, the client service...should be good enough to permit…

Thanks to a friend, Jack Mowreader, for an HBR link of Jeff Bezos being interviewed. Feel free to read the entire thing, but here's the kicker as it relates to client service. I love this quote: