In June 2009 I was interviewed by Lawyers USA Online about the value of Twitter in regard to law firm marketing. At the time, I had only been on Twitter for about 2 months so I was speaking as a true rookie. I told the interviewer that I thought it was too early to tell if Twitter was a waste of time for lawyers as some legal marketing experts apparently felt. I also said, “The education...
A couple of Twitter “tweets” I saw today referenced a lawyer disciplined for allowing “non-lawyers” to do something that only a licensed attorney should have done. I really dislike the “n-l” word so suggested in my reply “tweet” that surely we could all find more respectful words to use when referring to someone who does not practice law for a...
There’s been a recent flury of Tweet exchanges debating whether or not Twitter gives lawyers a return on their investment of time and effort. @larrybodine feels strongly that it is not a good marketing tool for law firms while many others strongly disagree. I was recently interviewed about this ongoing controversy by Nora Tooher, one of Lawyers USA’s excellent full-time...
This is a brand new blog and hopefully we will soon get a dialogue going on whatever interests we share….today, I started sending out what I call “ProgressBuster” tips on Twitter (@lawbusinesstips). These will include those things I’ve seen through the years (over and over unfotunately) as a law office/business consultant that hurt (and often totally kills) productivity,...
