The education and training that lawyers receive are valuable. For some reason, many lawyers are prone to forgetting their value. Getting through law school and passing the bar examination is a significant achievement. In this day and age, lawyers have to spend considerable amounts of money to get through law school. The cost is much…
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Do you match if an employee receives a better job offer?
In almost any business setting, including a law firm, your employees might get a better offer elsewhere at some point. Some employees might not even seek out the job offer. In other words, if you have a law firm with great employees, many of these employees will be sought after. They will be recruited. The…
Your employees will need to learn from their own mistakes
It would be nice if you could simply tell your employees what to do and what not to do. It would be great if they would always take this advice happily. After all, if you are a law firm manager or owner, you have inevitably made many mistakes (and also learned lots of things) over…
How often are you blogging?
One question that lots of lawyers and law firms do not think nearly enough about is how often they blog. Apart from performing legal work for clients, many lawyers and law firms spend lots of time doing lots of tasks. But one thing most lawyers and law firms do not spend any time doing is…
Initial consultations: Don’t count on them coming back
Initial consultations are an important part of most law firms. In lots of areas of law, repetitive business is critical to the success of the law firm itself. Initial consultations can sometimes come from referrals or word-of-mouth. Initial consultations can also come down to marketing or advertising. Making an important impression at an initial consultation…
Never forget that happy clients pay
When a law firm performs legal services for clients, law firms must perform work that is competent, communicative, and diligent. It’s also critical that lawyers put the performance of their legal services at the forefront. At the same time, lawyers need to get paid for the work that they do as well — unless they…
What’s the solution to the online legal form industry?
There are now lots of online legal form companies out there. The big ones are Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer. For some lawyers, the idea that there are companies out there that sell legal forms causes them a great deal of fear, distress, and anguish. They worry about why clients will just purchase a form…
Do you need to be on the front page of your website?
In a previous thread, I talked about the problems with using stock photos on your webpage. Unless you tell those who are designing your webpage not to use stock photos, the reality is that this is where most marketing companies want to go. Another direction many marketing companies will want to go by default is…
“Don’t advertise. Be patient and build your practice.”
Within the legal industry, there is still a mindset that attorneys should not advertise. Instead, lawyers should simply be patient and build their practice. Most lawyers have surely heard statements like this over time. For lawyers who have been practicing for a long time, this is often the mentality. The idea is that a lawyer…
Who makes more: lawyers or doctors?
Many, when they consider engaging in a professional career, debate whether they should be a doctor or a lawyer. These professions are two that many look at when they decide their path in life. There is something about medical or law school that attracts many individuals to contemplate one career or the other. Obviously, the…
Advertising to other professionals versus the public
When lawyers and law firms decide that they are going to advertise, many struggle with whom to target their advertising efforts. Do they target their advertising to other professionals by advertising to other lawyers and other professionals who work closely with them? Or do they focus their advertising efforts on the general public? Those who…
Does your law firm have a case of “The Slows?”
During the Civil War, President Lincoln was frustrated with the performance of General George McClellan. One of his chief complaints with General McClellan, as he put it, was that he had a case of “the slows.” Instead of marching forward to fight, he spent all his time preparing for a battle versus actually marching his…