PI Law Firm Opens Its Drive-Thru Window

Clients of a personal injury law firm in Connecticut can drop off and pick up documents at its new drive-thru window. The Kocian Law Group decided to keep the drive-thru when it bought and rehabbed a building that housed a Kenny Rogers Roasters. The new office in Manchester opened this…

Oct 22, 2010 11:31 AM CDT

Law Firm Uses Social Network and Billboards to Raise Money for Client’s Cause

The environmental law firm Earthjustice is raising money to help endangered species with the help of a generous donor, free billboards and a social networking website. The law firm’s billboards at San Francisco transit stations feature the American pika, a “cute rabbitlike” creature that may be most at risk from…

Oct 22, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

Law Firm ‘Scared the Wits Out of Some People’ With Mistaken Foreclosure Letters

A marketing executive with a California law firm is taking responsibility for some 2,000 letters mistakenly warning San Francisco homeowners that they faced foreclosure. The letters from the firm Provident & Associates in Pleasanton, Calif., offered to help with loan modifications, the Contra Costa Times reports. “A notice of default…

Oct 20, 2010 11:45 AM CDT

Buchanan Ingersoll Hires Social Media Consultant

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has hired a consultant to train its lawyers how to use social media and created a policy governing their use of the technology. The law firm is one of several Pennsylvania firms using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even YouTube as a marketing tool, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…

Oct 19, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

Law Firm Partners Reprimanded for Misleading Information on Website

Five partners at a Louisiana law firm apparently weren’t aware of misleading information posted on their firm’s website, but they were reprimanded Friday for allowing the mistake. The website suggested that former Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster was a partner at the firm Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson even though he didn’t…

Oct 18, 2010 1:10 PM CDT

Law Firm’s Website Warns Clients: We Aren’t Perfect and We Don’t Work Weekends

High-maintenance divorce clients may not want to hire the Pincus Family Law firm in Columbia, S.C. The law firm takes work-life balance seriously, and it expects its clients to behave. The firm sets out the boundaries on its website under the heading “Client Expectations (Realistic or Unrealistic).” Pincus Family Law…

Oct 7, 2010 3:27 PM CDT

Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg’s Name Costs Him Google Traffic, Nets Him Angry Tech Support Calls

The Social Network, a movie about Facebook and its founders, opens today, but Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t plan to see it. Well, at least not Mark S. Zuckerberg of Indianapolis, who practices bankruptcy law and claims to receive dozens of phone calls every day for the 26-year-old Facebook founder who shares…

Oct 1, 2010 7:21 PM CDT

‘Burning Man Barrister’ Offers Free Legal Advice to Festival Revelers

In response to complaints about overzealous law enforcement agents at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the Nevada dessert, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney has formed Lawyers for Burners, a legal defense team to aid festival revelers in their brushes with the law. David Levin, aka the…

Sep 3, 2010 6:24 PM CDT

Firm’s New ‘EZ Ticket’ Defense Site Aims to Help Drivers Keep Records Clean

A San Antonio personal injury lawyer is adding traffic ticket defense, via the Internet, to his practice. Wallace Brylak Jr. set up EZTicketHelp.com, to handle traffic citations given by the San Antonio Police Department. According to KENS5.com, a local television news website, one can visit EZTicketHelp.com, enter the ticket information,…

Sep 3, 2010 3:23 PM CDT

Another Lawyer Sues Avvo Rating Site, Claims Its Practices Are ‘Beyond Unfair’

A Florida lawyer has sued the lawyer rating website Avvo, claiming it engages in “punitive, coercive and manipulative business practices” that are “beyond unfair.” St. Petersburg lawyer Larry Joe Davis Jr., a board-certified health lawyer who formerly worked as an associate at Foley & Lardner, says he learned he was…

Sep 2, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

Group Buy-In

A new service tries to harness the power of group discounts for solos

Sep 1, 2010 6:50 AM CDT

You’re Good ... If the Net Says So

Sep 1, 2010 5:40 AM CDT

What a Famous Husband’s Bio Can Teach Lawyers About Better Drafting

Lawyer bios are filled with information that is of little interest to clients, according to a law firm consultant who charted his thoughts. At his blog the (non)billable hour, consultant Matthew Homann of LexThink created two barely-intersecting circles, one with the information the lawyers put in their biographies, and the…

Aug 27, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

More Firms Get into Lawyer Rating Game and Claim Profiles on Avvo

We caught up with Avvo founder and ‘09 Legal Rebel Mark Britton in Chicago to chat with him about online reputation management—a hot topic for big and small law firms as competition increases and potential clients from consumers to Fortune 500 general counsel are flooded with information via the Web.…

Aug 24, 2010 9:21 PM CDT

Calif. AG Sues ‘Tax Lady’ for $34M, Says Misleading Ads Promoted ‘Heartless’ Law Firm Scheme

Updated: A California attorney known as the “tax lady” whose law firm grosses some $25 million a year has been accused by the state attorney general of operating a “heartless scheme” that takes retainers from thousands of clients while doing little or nothing to help them. In fact, instead of…

Aug 24, 2010 5:19 PM CDT