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REPORT: Associate billing rates increase more than partner rates. It also reveals how cross-selling lets firms charge a premium.

Analysis of a new report on $19.6 billion of approved legal department invoices reveals to maximize firm profits partners should…

9 years ago

Consider How Scott’s Uses Baseball When Your Firm Sponsors or Donates

The business case for sponsorships and charitable donations in an employer's local community is well documented:  it increases brand awareness…

9 years ago

3 Tenets of a Good Law Firm Coaching Program

Originally, coaches were hired to help fix the acerbic behavior of rainmakers who caused heavily-recruited and talented younger lawyers to…

9 years ago

LANDMARK SURVEY: Ratings affect most lawyers when hiring or making a referral to another lawyer

The endless debate about whether superlative ratings affect lawyers in private practice when making a referral to or hiring another…

9 years ago

SURVEYS: Marketing spending down, staffing and personal effort up

Local and regional corporate, transactional and defense firms are hiring full-time in-house marketers while reducing their firm's out-of-pocket marketing expenses…

9 years ago

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”

Tis' the season for law firms to begin the debate of holiday cards and gifts.  Who gets what?   How much…

9 years ago

What You Do After Making A Referral Is As Important As The Referral Itself

What occurs after you refer a matter to another lawyer or professional is as important as making the referral.  The…

10 years ago

Listing all of your lawyers on the letterhead makes the wrong impression

(This post originally appeared as our response to a question on the Legal Marketing Association list serv). The trend for…

10 years ago

RESEARCH: email subject lines that work best, those to avoid, and the best time to send

Leading email campaign provider Adestra (www.adestra.com) has released a report revealing which keywords in email subject lines cause higher open…

10 years ago