A 10-Part, One-Year Marketing-Training Curriculum I get asked regularly by marketers what I think associates need to learn about marketing. So here’s a simple list of 10 associate marketing and business development programs that provide lawyers with a comprehensive education…
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…
Law firms regularly send out blog posts and alerts. Few readers make it past the first paragraph. COVID accelerated the pace at which lawyers and firms churned out blog posts, legal alerts, and newsletters for clients and prospects. And generative…
Redesigning a logo with fewer names can be difficult. Below are two logos – before and after the redesign, obviously. Note, they’re exactly the same width. Which one stands out? Which one are you more likely to notice and remember? . It’s obviously the right…
Lawyers love having their names in the law firm’s logo. Hey, who wouldn’t? It’s the gold star, the brass ring, the highest honor law firms bestow, our industry’s Oscar. But it can get ridiculous, as over time more and more…
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…
Very hard, actually. If you want it done right. We haven’t heard it phrased exactly like that, but that’s the implication: “We designed our last logo all by ourselves in Word, and it looks just fine. Why should we pay…
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