marketing/pr in law

Great Reasons Why Every Law Student Should Blog

November 10, 2008 04:21

To follow-up on our previous post about the benefits of legal writing - and blogging in particular - I found this rather timely post over at The Frugal Law Student. Brett McKay writes: Blogging has definitely helped my legal writing. When you write for a blog, your audience consists of internet...

Mister Thorne on How Lawyers Write

November 10, 2008 01:47

One of our readers, Mister Thorne, wrote in to us about a recent legal writing cartoon we posted earlier this week (the (new) legal writer also picked up on it). He pointed out an article from his site today that addresses lawyers as authors and law firms as publishers. Lawyers rarely know how to...

Social Networks Pay Money for Lawyers

September 29, 2008 15:32

Social networks are picking up, and lawyers are noticing. The Legal Marketing Association published a paper recently emphasized that junior associates involved in social networking might be bringing a large client base with them. When you hire someone, you hire his or her network. One of the more...

Why Meta Tags Mattered in Venture Tape v. McGills

September 06, 2008 01:36

Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute, has a post on a recent American decision involving search engine optimization and meta tags. The tech/geek types will be scratching their heads now, because...

Social Media When Time = Money

August 29, 2008 06:11

Lawyers are notorious for efficient use of their time, more so than any other professional, because with the billable hour their time really is money. The American Bar Association revealed in the Septmeber 2008 issue of the ABA Journal that the majority of lawyers are still reluctant to adopt new...