Congratulations, you are now a Tier One, Preeminent, Super, Bestest, wonder-var lawyer … wanna buy a plaque?
Yes, Hollywood has their award season, and lawyers seem to have their blowing smoke season as well. According to how many plaque companies are contacting me right now, I’d say we’re in the thick of things.
Look, we’ve all messed up on the job. Sometimes it’s behind the scenes where it can easily be covered up. Sometimes it’s in front of the attorneys at the annual retreat.
Either way, when these things happen in-house where our clients, peers and competitors are none the wiser — we hope — we have more
All the chat these days around the water cooler is about how the LA Kings are heading to the Stanley Cup finals (hey, I’m in Los Angeles). Oh, and how the Facebook IPO has fizzled.
A lot of people want to point to the poor performance of the IPO launch to say, “See, this
I just checked my calendar and, yup, it really is 2012.
Other than the earth coming to an end later this year, it’s about fricken time you got a website.
There just aren’t any good excuses out there.
Yeah, I’m talking to you solo and small firms out there.
And this is especially true for those of you who represent consumers – family law, divorces, child custody, employment matters, trusts & estates. I’d add personal injury, DUI and immigration to the list, but those folks are marketing machines.
Seriously. If you Google yourself or your firm, what do you find? If the answer is NOTHING, than you are LOSING business every day, and you don’t even know it.
Case in point:Continue Reading Get a fricken website already
I rarely miss a general counsel panel at any conference, but I did miss it last week at the Legal Marketing Association‘s annual conference.
Not to worry, the LMA Tweeters were tweeting away, and Lindsay Griffiths put together an incredible two-part recap.
John Byrne and Kristin Sudholz form Drinker Biddle & Reath have fully embraced the ACC Value Challenge into their firm.
Took some work, but I left my converesation with Jim Durham and Gina Rubel and have headed over to the Leveraging the Big 4 Consulting Best Practices to Bolster your Business Development Strategies session.
Panelists
Maria Abernethy
Marketing Director
Deloitte
Jill Hulse
Director of Marketing
Moore Van Allen
Mike Higgins
Market Sales & Market Leader
Next up at LMA Conference: Jonathan Michael Bowman, Esq., President and CEO, Clear Picture Leadership©.
Leaders = change agents.
But, really, what other kind of leadership is there?
To lead, you have to be willing to change, to improve it, to make it better. There are no status quo leaders.
It only takes
It happens to the best of us, and it happened to me last week. I f***ed up at work and it pissed a partner off big time. He was right to be pissed, because I f***ed up. My first instinct was to deflect the blame and project it onto him (Too sensitive?? Doesn’t understand the
