Check out swag from the ABA Techshow (gallery)

Besides sessions that will get lawyers and firm managers up to speed on the latest legal technology issues and resources, a tech conference is the time to check out products first hand. If you’re a conference veteran, you’ll leave room in your suitcase for the freebies that product vendors hand…

Mar 28, 2014 5:00 PM CDT

Hire me, ‘I think like a criminal,’ Pittsburgh lawyer says in YouTube video

Need a criminal defense lawyer? Then you should hire a lawyer who thinks like a criminal, according to a YouTube video by Pittsburgh attorney Daniel Muessig. The video features Muessig’s friends playing the part of criminals grateful for the lawyer’s services and portrays Muessig as a lawyer who truly understands…

Mar 10, 2014 11:45 AM CDT

Skadden has best-known law firm brand, survey says

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is the top law firm brand in the United States, according to a survey of corporate counsel. Skadden has taken top place for three years in a row, according to the American Lawyer (sub. req.) and a press release. The top five law firms…

Mar 3, 2014 2:32 PM CST

Firm challenges Florida Bar over website ad limits

Mar 1, 2014 9:49 AM CST

What can ‘gamification’ do for lawyers?

Mar 1, 2014 9:20 AM CST

Generation X’s impact on the legal industry | A blogger shares his wife’s lung cancer struggle

“There is a generational shift taking place, and very few people are talking about it, nor the impact it is having on our sales culture, nor our business culture,” Heather Morse, director of marketing for Barger & Wolen in Los Angeles, writes at The Legal Watercooler. Members of Generation X—like…

Feb 28, 2014 2:50 PM CST

Lawyer censured for buying keywords for other lawyers and law firms

A North Carolina lawyer has been censured for an Internet ad campaign in which he allegedly bought keywords for the names of other lawyers, law firms and judicial officials. David Turlington III of Boone continued to buy the keywords even after a 2012 North Carolina ethics opinion deemed the practice…

Feb 27, 2014 11:45 AM CST

May law firms redirect visitors from old to new website after name partner departs? Va. mulls answer

A proposed Virginia ethics opinion would require some additional online information when law firms change their names and create new websites because a name partner has left to start practice elsewhere. The issue is whether a law firm that acquires a new name because of the partner’s departure may redirect…

Feb 13, 2014 11:40 AM CST

What law bloggers think of attorney’s Super Bowl ad | A new blog from Above the Law

More than 4 million people have watched Savannah, Ga., personal injury attorney Jamie Casino’s local Super Bowl Ad on YouTube. In the two-minute opus, the onetime criminal defense attorney tells how he no longer represents “villains” since his brother’s fatal shooting two years ago. New York City Personal Injury Law…

Feb 7, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Trial lawyer in viral action-hero Super Bowl ad fought for airtime to vindicate slain brother

It wasn’t easy to persuade a local television station to sell Jamie Casino two minutes of advertising airtime during the Super Bowl, and the Georgia personal injury attorney won’t say how much he paid to get it, only that it was “really expensive.” But the seasoned negotiator, a regular advertiser…

Feb 4, 2014 9:10 PM CST

Lawyer’s local Super Bowl ad is described as ‘completely nuts’ and a masterpiece

Advertising Week’s Adfreak blog is giving an A to Georgia personal-injury lawyer Jamie Casino for his local Super Bowl ad, dubbing it “completely nuts and completely entertaining.’ The “insane ad” explaining Casino’s transformation from a criminal-defense to personal-injury lawyer is a “two-minute heavy-metal masterpiece,” Adfreak says. The Wall Street Journal…

Feb 3, 2014 6:24 PM CST

Social media has trade-offs for lawyers

Feb 1, 2014 8:00 AM CST

Should law firms give their clients a concierge experience? | Legal tips for the Super Bowl

Is the time our clients might spend waiting for their appointments with lawyers a wasted opportunity? After getting a little inspiration at the Marketing Partner Forum last week, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog’s Greg Lambert wonders. “Imagine having someone in your marketing, business development, or client teams departments greeting…

Jan 31, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Committee calls for caution as more lawyers use group-coupon or prepaid marketing

Jan 1, 2014 9:30 AM CST

New job titles reflect economic challenges, changing career expectations for lawyers

Jan 1, 2014 9:00 AM CST