It is no secret that I’m very interested in how teams work, how individuals (ME) fit into a team, and how we all come together to get the job done.
A colleague of mine posted an interesting job description for a Director of Law Firm Marketing and Public Relations:
I was out of the office sick on Friday (yes, I was legitimately sick, on a Friday before a 3-day weekend, thank you very much), and am slowly going through my 100+ emails.
The amount of spam is out of control. Usually I just “block” the sender and move on.
But I am noticing a
Just sat in another program where the editor of legal publication said that under absolutely no circumstance will they open up their content. It is all safely tucked behind a firewall. They are in the business of selling newspapers, after all.
I disagree with you, Mr. Editor. You are in the business of distributing content.
I am beside myself tonight. The news is horrible coming out of Moore, Oklahoma. And it keeps getting worse. But that is not what is upsetting me the most. It’s the damn auto tweets and posts that seem so out of place between the devastating news. Here I am. Sitting safe and sound in Los
I had a busy month. INSANELY busy month preparing for my firm’s inaugural industry-focused conference.
And it came off without a hitch. Seamless. Pretty damn perfect if you ask me, or read the evaluations. A couple typos and one missed nametag. A speaker had to back out at the last minute, but it actually
Who the hell is Lou Adler and how dare he come up with such a brilliant, simple, and concise description of the workplace? There Are Only Four Jobs in the Whole World – Are You in the Right One?
Everything starts with an idea. This is the first of the four jobs – the Thinkers
For anyone following any legal marketing stream on Twitter (#LMA13, for instance), you’ll know that we not only have our scoffers, but we have our haters.
And, honestly, looking at the spam in my filters, who can blame them.
There are a lot of bad promotional people out there targeting lawyers with their
First off, my personal thoughts and prayers to all impacted by today’s terrorist attacks in Boston. It is beyond words.
Unfortunately, while I posted the following message privately in a Facebook legal marketing group, I believe it needs to be posted publicly as well:
For those of you have auto messages set to post via
Well, I am back in the office and digging through my e-mails, trying to figure out what I missed out on, and, yet, I am still going back and checking the Twitter stream because I am not yet ready to move on from what happened at the LMA Annual Conference. In fact, I get
Prof. David Wilkins, Director, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, is on stage right now. He just made a great analogy about the purchasing of legal services that just won’t fit in 140 characters on Twitter.
Folks of a certain age will remember running down to the local record store to