(Blog post 3 of 3) Tag lines are hard – a small handful of strategically selected words that encapsulate everything you stand for and want your target audience to know about you. In this 3-part post, we detail some of…
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This is quite a headshot. Some marketing topics are complex and require a lengthy discussion. Other times, res ipsa loquitur (“the thing speaks for itself”) applies. We think today’s discussion of lawyer website biography photos might be one of those. In…
Wildman law firm – sorry to see you go. According to reports, tomorrow, January 10, the latest mega-merger will be official — Locke Lord merging with Edwards Wildman Palmer to form 1000-lawyer Locke Lord Edwards. That’s a pretty good name, actually, which…
Connecting your law firm holiday card to your brand message. I received a nice simple holiday card from an old client, Bryant Miller Olive, a top finance law firm and Florida’s market leader in public finance and bond work. Back…
Marketing and Biz Dev Training for Litigators A marketer asked whether litigators require unique marketing and client-development training. She’d been hearing from the litigators that they felt the nature of a litigation practice is somehow different, that it requires special techniques and training. They…
Rebranding a Top Trial Lawyers Group The Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) is an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society. It was established to reflect the new face of the American bar. Membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows. The LCA offers its…
ABA Journal – “Lawyer censured for buying keywords for other lawyers and law firms.” I thoroughly disagree with this anti-competitive, anti-consumer censure. It’s bad precedent. I was the defense’s law firm marketing/social media expert witness in Habush vs. Cannon &…
Here’s the Litigation Ad We Could Never Run. Law and accounting firms come to Fishman Marketing looking for ads, brands, or WordPress websites. We start by developing the brand message and supporting visuals, then later apply them to the websites. Some litigation…
Naming Your Competitors in Your Law Firm Marketing Lawyers are generally a pretty genteel group. We may compete directly, but it’s exceedingly rare to mention them by name in public. Perhaps a decade ago, intellectual property firm Oblon Spivak identified top…
The worst law firm website group photo ever? At Fishman Marketing, we develop a lot of law firm websites, probably 20-30 legal sites per year. We see our job as helping the law firms: Use websites, branding, and other marketing…
