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This panel of senior marketing and business development leaders discuss the various approaches towards integrating social media into an overall business development and marketing strategy. The panel cover various social media tools, integrating social media into your law firm’s branding strategy, coordinating various social media efforts across the organization, gaining buy-in, coaching attorneys, and the measurement of return on both investment and effort.

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Part 1: The Listening Power of Social Media
Social media is not just a mechanism for putting out information – a successful social media strategy leverages the listening power of these platforms. This panel explores how to use social media to better understand your clients’ needs and then leverage them into intelligent and relevant conversation.

Part 2: New Approaches to Using Video for Business Development
This panel explores some…

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Social media can be overwhelming but as hard as many law firms try, it shouldn’t be ignored.  You can sort through the static and harness it’s power by learning to understand that as a part of an integrated marketing and business development strategy, the portfolio of social medial platforms available not only keeps you connected with …

Law practices grow from both internal and external efforts; from traditional and novel approaches; and consciously and without effort. We looked at selected traditional efforts in a previous segment. This session will focus on social media, a term of art that refers to the use of technology and the internet.  Fundamentals do not change, but the advancing technology offers new tools to achieve the same result: ethical growth of your law firm to serve the needs of your market, your clients.

Using social media to networking through the Internet for professional and business development is actually no different than traditional networking by lawyers. It’s all about engaging your target audience to nurture and build relationships. Lawyers do have fears and concerns when faced with social media though. Kevin O’Keefe will cover the ethical and liability issues that should be considered, if a social media policy should be used, and if so what the policy should include, and the best pract…

In-house counsel, like athletes, succeed with training and development. An in-house lawyer in top condition really can do more with less, and help be the solution to the challenges of their business. While law firms are increasingly taking innovative approaches to professional development strategies, arguably it is in-house legal teams that can gain as much if not more from this. This session draws on the experiences of in-house and private practice professionals to build a comprehensive stra…

Medicare compliance is as important after the settlement as it is at the time of the settlement. On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes co-host Angus Kennedy and guest, Hany Abdelsayed, Director of Business Development at Rising Financial Solutions, to take a look at Medicare Set-Asides in worker’s compensation cases. Larry, Angus and Hany discuss the role of a professional administrator, the options individuals have when self-administering their own MSA’s and the importance of Medicare compliance.

In our February edition of Law Technology Now, host Monica Bay welcomes Mark Gerow director of applications development and business process in the intellectual property group at Fenwick & West. They talk about why SharePoint is so popular in law firms, and how firms can create “ethical walls” to protect client confidentiality a the subject of Gerowas article, Building Ethical Walls in Microsoft SharePoint, in the February issue of Law Technology News.

On this edition of The ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack welcomes Alex Buck, Discovery and Technology Counsel for Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Dave Walton, a Member in Cozen OaConnoras Labor and Employment Practice Group and Co-Chair of the firmas E-Discovery Task Force, and Jason Straight, Vice President of Legal Technologies Business Development for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss findings and best practices from the Fourth Annual ESI Trends Report published by Kroll Ontrack. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki looks at the recent case of Voom HD Holdings v. Echostar Satellite.

In this second edition of The Robert Half Legal Report, host Marilyn Bird, District President for Robert Half Legal, welcomes Attorney Charles Volkert, Executive Director of Robert Half Legal, to discuss how law firms and corporate legal departments are changing in response to major developments not only in the legal field, but also in the broader economy. Marilyn and Chad examine best practices for improving client service levels and business development methods in a landscape of continuous change.

In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Doug Cohen, Senior Director of Business Development for Kroll Ontrack/TrialGraphix and Dr. Dan Wolfe, Director of Jury Consulting for Kroll Ontrack/TrialGraphix, to address the challenges faced by legal teams spurred by the increasing demand to perform more with less. The discussion will also include new and efficient ways to prepare for trial in 2010. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent, Kelly Kubacki will take a look at the discovery order issued in Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities, LLC.

On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, co-hosts Lynne DeVenny and Vicki Voisin welcome Attorney Beverly Michaelis, Practice Management Advisor for the Oregon State Bar’s Professional Liability Fund, to discuss practice management, technology and current ethics issues for paralegals. Later in the program, Vicki will chat with Shawn Siek, Vice President of ESI Business Development at Teris, about what to look for in a service provider and hiring a litigation support vendor.

The Gardere Wynne Sewell Womenas Council wanted to create a bit of drama and ended up with a slice of television when its leaders invited Ed Begley Jr., of “Living with Ed,” to be the speaker at their law firm’s networking cocktail party. Monica Bay, Editor-In-Chief of Law Technology News welcomes Attorney Jane Fergason, chair of the Gardere Wynne Sewell Womenas Council and Jennifer King, assistant director of marketing & business development for Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, to talk about this star-powered celebration and how you too can plan your next agreenaevent.

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“I have been married to the legal profession for more than eight years, starting way back when as a paralegal, before eventually moving to a fee earner role in commercial litigation with a national top-tier firm, while at the same time undertaking an LL.M in international business law. “I currently work for a private investor as corporate strategist and business development consultant, but I really want to work in a similar role at a law firm – how does this happen? Am I missing something? How do you get into business development in law, and what are the prospects?

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“I have a very strong academic background in law to masters level, and in addition to support and fee earning experience, I have around four years’ business development and marketing experience, and have worked on some excellent projects at senior level. However, I simply cannot get a BD role in a law firm in the northwest, where I am based. I have in the past been offered several roles in London with some excellent firms, but I am just not in a position to relocate at this time. “Am I better simply just to move to London and make the jump? Why do firms place such an emphasis on BD and marketing teams being in London rather than regional offices?”

The Obama administration says it is easing restrictions on U.S. investment and trade in Myanmar to encourage business development in the impoverished country and in recognition of its political reforms.

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school it’s a wonder I can think at all.” That’s the first line from Paul Simon’s song Kodachrome. Although 40 years since the summer of ’73 when Kodachrome peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 100, I’ve never been able to get that… Continue Reading

With Facebook’s IPO coming this week you can’t get away from all the news and talk about Facebook. Is all the hullabaloo warranted?A Should you care as a lawyer or law firm? Yes. I used to think Facebook was not worth a lawyer’s time. How could a lawyer use a forum where people shared personal notes… Continue Reading

I just finished speaking with a class at the University of Washington Law School. It was class for mostly 3L’s entitled ‘Practical And Professional Responsibility Issues in the Small or Solo Law Practice.’ The course description in the catalogue: This course examines the practical, ethical and personal issues which are unique to small firm and… Continue Reading

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