Smoothing a litigation firm’s sharp edges. When launching an aggressive marketing campaign and website for a top litigation firm, we wanted them to be perceived as tough and strong, but still approachable. Here’s how we walked that fine line, without…
“The Book of Mormon” and Target Marketing. We saw “The Book of Mormon” recently and really enjoyed it. Hilarious and thoroughly offensive. We also saw an especially good example of carefully targeted and executed marketing by LDS — a lesson many law…
Drinker Biddle’s Clever Holiday Card. Holiday cards are tricky. Law firms want to be creative and memorable, while needing to avoid anything marketing-oriented, religious, or clichéd (no snowy skylines, children’s artwork, pine trees, etc.). We must cut through the clutter…
Opryland’s 24 MPH speed limit – and your website statistics. Opry Mills, the mega-mall outside of the Grand Ole Opry, has a curious 24 MPH speed limit. It caused us to wonder about it. Why 24 instead of the typical…
We’ll miss you, Judi. Legal Marketing lost a kind and loving person this week, Judi Weingarz. A pillar in Chicago’s LMA community for decades, she was most recently the Director of Marketing at the Interlex Group. Judi was wonderful – smart,…
One of history’s most common law firm tag lines is “Committed to Quality” or its generic equivalent. Committed to quality service, committed to quality representation, committed to high-quality legal this or that. I think we can all agree that if…
Court reporters need good marketing too. A number of years ago, after speaking on marketing and branding at an association of court reporters, we’d received a lot of interest in developing some brand-related ads for smaller, local and regional court…
This is how GOOGLE markets a seminar, baby. Many law firms send large numbers of seminar invitations, hoping to fill the seats. Of course, the goal should be quality rather than quantity – i.e. it’s better to have the right…
I’m not doing a big electronic Holiday Card competition again this year; I’m going to leave the 2012 competition to my friends at Above the Law. But I thought this combination card-gift-giveaway was worth mentioning. My old friends and clients at…
A tag line we really like: “Defense Lawyers. Defense Leaders.” We developed an integrated marketing campaign for FDCC, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. It’s an international honorary association of 1,000 of the absolute best defense litigators and in-house professionals….