Good-bye Georganne! Enjoy Retirement! One of my all-time favorite Administrators is retiring this week — Shefsky & Froelich’s Georganne Binnie. She’s been at the firm 15 years. I’ve worked with Georganne many times over many years, and she’s everything a law…
“I’m Not an Expert, but I Think…” “Mad Men” and The Challenge of Client Pitches. In this brilliant one-minute clip (click here), “Mad Men” captures precisely how Pitch Meetings can go tragically wrong, in any industry or organization. And this…
Here’s Proof That Marketing is More Important than Technology. You meet someone at a party or conference and she seems smart and skilled. So you get her card and do the next thing people do, you visit her firm’s website. …
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley thanks Jones Day. I always thought this was one of the best examples of opportunistic and strategic marketing by a major law firm. Jones Day’s Washington DC office apparently has a great view overlooking the…
New brand or website? Time for a party! Some firms launch via memo from the marketing committee or managing partner. What a wasted opportunity! When we launched Hedrick Gardner’s new marketing campaign and website, their internal team really took it…
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,…
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