Legal Marketing & Consulting

Duane Morris Cuts and Restructures Business Development, Marketing Staff

Duane Morris has hired a new marketing director and restructured its business development and marketing staff. Seven staffers lost jobs in the restructuring, but three senior executives were hired, chief marketing officer Ed Schechter told Incisive Media. The team now has 30 to 35 people. Most of the staffers who…

Aug 21, 2008 10:43 AM CDT

Few UK Law Blogs, But 9 Make London Times ‘Best’ List

Whether a lawyer should have a law blog is a cutting-edge question in the United Kingdom, where not many do. “Notable bloggers in the U.K. legal profession as a whole are few and far between,” reports the London Times, and and many of the country’s solicitors and barristers don’t see…

Aug 20, 2008 11:38 PM CDT

And the Winner of the Reality Blogging Competition Is …

The votes are in. Above the Law held an “American Idol”-type contest to select a new lead editor and the readers have chosen a former big firm lawyer who called himself Sophist during the competition. Sophist’s real name is Elie Ying Mystal. He describes himself this way on Above the…

Aug 20, 2008 4:45 PM CDT

Jackson Lewis Caps Fees in Exchange for All of Pfizer’s Employment Work

Pfizer Inc. has dubbed its law firm management effort P3, for Pfizer Partnering Program. It’s a bit of a misnomer, however, since the program involves the whittling away of law firm partners. The company now uses only 39 outside firms for U.S. litigation, down from 200 before the company instituted…

Aug 19, 2008 4:28 PM CDT

FindLaw’s Reported Offer to Sell Links to Websites Has Blogosphere Talking

Bloggers are talking about FindLaw’s reported attempt to sell links to lawyer and corporate websites for $1,000 a month. A blogger known as Oilman reports on an e-mail he got from FindLaw that says the links may help increase a website’s visibility and rank on search engines such as Google.…

Aug 19, 2008 1:31 PM CDT

Martindale Amps Up on Internet, as Law Firms Ponder Cost v. Benefit

Martindale-Hubbell was the gold standard of lawyer advertising, back in the day when attorney directories, like case decisions, were read in hard-copy publications. But with the ascendancy of the Internet, the venerable directory has lost some of its allure to law firms and is scrambling to offer new online benefits,…

Aug 18, 2008 6:47 PM CDT

New Site Enters Lawyer-Client Matchmaker Field

Updated: The image of a businessman dressed in a dark suit, slipping on a banana peel and about to fall flat on his rear may give Web users an idea of the types of lawyers they might find starting in September on WhoCanISue.com. The new website, founded by Florida lawyer…

Aug 7, 2008 3:08 PM CDT

Faith’s Rewards

Some lawyers find religion a righteous marketing tool

Aug 1, 2008 12:50 PM CDT

Firm Unveils Comical ‘Lawyer Job Interview Translator’

A Minneapolis law firm is poking fun at the job interview process with a new website called “the lawyer job interview translator.” The online recruitment tool is the brainchild of Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson. It features a glib-talking interviewer who delivers pat answers to job candidates. The site then…

Jul 22, 2008 6:02 PM CDT

Wachtell Lipton Client Memo Urges SEC to Target Rumor-Mongers

New York’s Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz sent a call to arms this week to clients. In the memo, the M&A powerhouse urges U.S. securities regulators to be more aggressive in attacking rumor-mongers and in policing other industry abuses. The memo calls for a 45-day study by the Securities and…

Jul 15, 2008 9:12 PM CDT

L.A. Mediator’s Online Show Picked Up By Radio Network

The online show of Los Angeles mediator Lee Jay Berman has been picked up by the American General Media radio network. The show is called “Talk It Over,” and offers advice on conflict resolution and commentary on news items, the Daily Journal (reg. req.) reports. The show will air at…

Jul 14, 2008 12:50 PM CDT

A Sweet Networking Event for Women Lawyers at Greenberg Traurig

About 60 women lawyers and summer associates from Greenberg Traurig gathered at the Manhattan home of partner Judith O’Neill last night for a chocolate-tasting billed as a networking opportunity. Leading the event was food writer Dina Cheney, who said this isn’t the first time she has held a chocolate-tasting for…

Jul 11, 2008 12:39 PM CDT

6 Schwartz Cooper Refugees Pass Up Dykema, Choose Ungaretti

Not everyone at the soon-to-be shuttered Schwartz Cooper believes that bigger is better. Indeed, a group of six from the firm’s intellectual property law group have decided to shift to Chicago’s venerable Ungaretti & Harris rather than join their colleagues going to Detroit-based Dykema. “A merger was not what we…

Jul 8, 2008 4:52 PM CDT

Labor Lawyer Puts ‘Missing’ Iowa Gov. on Milk Carton

Fake milk carton ads featuring a “Missing” Gov. Chet Culver are circulating through Iowa with this message: “Have you seen me?” “Description: Democratic Governor with alleged loyalty to Iowa workers and Labor. … Approach With Caution: May have developed amnesia and is known to throw fits when reminded of his…

Jul 8, 2008 1:52 PM CDT

Ohio Law Firm Switches to Success-Fee Billing

Updated: The ABA Journal recently called the billable hour “the dandelion of law practice: pervasive and not so popular.” The billable hour billing system has been criticized for fostering inefficiency and putting the interests of lawyers and clients in conflict. Now an Ohio firm is joining a few law firms…

Jul 7, 2008 4:45 PM CDT