Does it drive you crazy that big-firm lawyers can charge 30-50% more per hour than you? You know you’re just as skilled, but the marketplace doesn’t, so you charge $100 or $250 less for every single hour. Hour after hour….
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Using Marketing tools to aid Lateral Recruiting. Last week in Part 1, we discussed how law firms can increase their lateral-hiring results by building their brand within the legal community. If you show your style, approach, or culture, or find…
Your website should tell your firm’s unique story. Here’s Part 2, litigation firms 6-10. Below we describe the rebrand of tough, dynamic, trial-oriented firms that might outwardly seem quite similar. (Read Part 1 here.) But each was much more than…
Your website should tell your firm’s unique story. On the surface, all ten litigation firms below seemed relatively similar—dynamic firms full of tough, strategic litigators and trial lawyers. But each was much more than that. Each firm’s brand needed to showcase…
Spending other people’s money can make you quite generous. Frivolous, even. And unless a law firm has a detailed policy for how its donations are to be evaluated and approved, oversight is exceedingly difficult. This means that the partners can easily say…
Rebranding an insurance law firm. Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith is a 110-lawyer, 11-office New Orleans-based insurance-litigation firm. They’re one of the Gulf Coast’s leading insurance firms ― tough, skilled, service-oriented lawyers with great trial skills. They also handle…
There are few products more boring than shampoo. It’s soap. For your hair. Yet there have been some notable efforts over the years to differentiate it, or make shampoo seem more interesting or useful. Clairol Herbal Essences took this to a…
When launching a new marketing campaign, it’s time for a party! Law firms aren’t especially fun environments, so we shouldn’t waste the opportunity to celebrate good news, like the launch of a new brand identity, ad campaign, or website. You…
I collect legal marketing memorabilia. I’ve been collecting them for 25 years, and I have hundreds of historical pieces, dating back 225 years, to 1794. Sometimes I come across really unusual examples. I thought this matchbook was a bit surprising….
Building signage – should we put our name on our building? I haven’t seen any statistics on this, but as a dedicated branding guy, I pay an unhealthy amount of attention to this particular issue and have analyzed this issue…
