Ever go to a cocktail party or conference reception and there’s “that guy” or “that girl” who monopolizes the conversation talking about work? You’re standing there, stuck. Drink in hand, you scan the room looking for an excuse to make a graceful escape.
I’m friends with “that guy” on Facebook. In fact, I’m friends
Before I begin my take on the current incarnation of the Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings ™ system and its relationship to Martindale-Hubbell ® Connected, I’d like to make a few things clear:
Hey, it can’t be all legal marketing all the time! An annual tradition growing up at my house during Halloween was Mad Monster Party with Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller. Doesn’t get any cheesier than this!
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Our friends over at The Lawyerist have a great post today courtesy of Allison Shields – 7 Simple Online Mistakes Lawyers Make.
As if the readers of The Legal Watercooler needed another reason to participate in social media and social networking:
Google Social Search should be available to everyone by the end of today.
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and
In the comments section of Rainmaking CAN be a learned trait, Lee Keller King refers to the wisdom of Master Yoda. Here you go …
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According to this article in the Wharton School’s Knowledge@Wharton periodical, it’s crowded enough to need some consolidation. The specific spaces such as Martindale Hubbell Connected or Legal OnRamp may not be at risk (yet?), but the large networks are certainly encroaching on each other in a way that suggests that some may need to merge
In the comments section of yesterday’s post, Law Firm Rainmakers: The New Untouchables, Toby Brown wrote: I recall seeing numerous articles in the last downturn about how the lawyer personality is opposite of what you need for sales. I don’t have a current reference to one of these articles, but the basic theme was:
I don’t know why this isn’t intuitive, but, if you bring in new business to a law firm, or you are identified as having the ability to bring in new business, your job will be, for the most part, safe in this economy.
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog discusses this in Do Law Firm