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January 2005
More Marketing Tips – For When Business is Slow
January must be national marketing month for lawyers. Here’s yet another article on marketing, this one by Kimberly Fanady on What to Do When the Phone Stops Ringing , Small Firm Business (January 10, 2005). There’s likely to be at least one tip in the article that may work for you – and by turning…
Another Article on Disatisfaction in the Legal Profession
This article, Web site tells of woes of attorneys (SF Chronicle 1/8/05) reports on the Anonymous Lawyer phenonenom, speculating that the site may “make you feel sorry for lawyers.” The article then goes on to describe the grind of the large law firm, working hard and deferring gratification until the big payoff of partnership:
Although…
Marketing on the Cheap: Some Tips
If you’re just starting out as a solo, you may wonder how you can ever get the work out about your practice when some types of marketing measures like Yellow Pages, TV or even ads in the local newspaper are prohibitively expensive. Or, even if you’re not cash strapped, you may wonder whether it’s worthwhile…
Corporations Looking for Law Firms With Low Cost
Fellow blogger Janell Grenier of Benefitscounsel.com tipped us off to this article, Tech Revolution: Change or Die by Laura Owen, Director of Legal Services for Cisco Corp. Dennis Kennedy and Ernie the Attorney recently posted about this article as well, respectively over here and here.
Owen argues that corporations want law firms who “get” technology…
Stop Whining, Start Asking
David Giacalone has this post on how law firm associates ought to start taking responsibility for their long hours rather than expecting the “powers-that-be” to do it for them. David offers this qutoe by MCI counsel Anastasia Kellfrom a recent article in Washington Lawyer (Jan. 2005) (the D.C. Bar magazine) on The Tyranny of the…
She Won’t Take No for an Answer
"She won’t take "No" for an answer is a great tagline, in my opinion – and it’s one that’s working effectively as a jingle for West Virginia attorney Jan Dils as reported in this article (WV Gazette, 1/4/05). As the article reports, Dils’ ubiquitous jingle attracts her much attention – and presumably, those frequent contacts…