Marketing
Should Trademark Attorneys Use NameWarden to Find Clients?
For some reason, I’ve not seen much yet written about Namewarden, a docketing, defense, and new client finder service for trademark lawyers, as described in founder Chris Gatewood’s bio in this post . According to the website, Namewarden’s client finder service is a monthly subscription service that provides current lists of all trademark applicants who…
Read MoreMake Money Monday: You’ve Got Some ‘Splainin to Do!
Remember the “I Love Lucy Show” where Lucy would get herself into some kind of scrape that she’d conceal from her husband Ricky – but then be forced to ‘fess up when he demanded, in his heavy Spanish accent, that “you’ve got some ‘splaining’ to do.” In doing so, sometimes Ricky wanted his wife to…
Read MoreMake Money Mondays: Uber or Lyft Your Clients
A few months ago, I pondered the ethics of lawyers engaging car services like Uber to transport potential or existing clients to their office or the courts. (You can bet that if there’s an “app for that,” there’s going to be 37 ethics rules for that as well). Back when I blogged about the ethics…
Read MoreSolo Cycle: Tips for Bicycling Lawyers
Welcome back, Peter T. Anderson, D.C. Bike Lawyer whom we profiled last week about his niche bike practice. This week, Peter discusses the recreational side of biking, sharing his expert tips on must-have bike gear for commuting lawyers, safety of bike shares and great bike routes. By the way, if you’re a biker, whether in…
Read MorePedaling a Practice: Meet Peter T. Anderson, D.C. Bike Lawyer
Ever wonder what it’s like to turn a personal passion into a practice area? Peter T. Anderson an associate at the small, D.C.-based practice, Grenier Law Group is doing just that; leveraging his love for recreational biking and familiarity with the rules of the road to represent cyclists in the nation’s capitol. Learn more about…
Read MoreThe Attorney Roundtable: How and Why This Home-Grown, Local Networking Group for Solo & Small Firm Lawyers Continues to Thrive After Sixteen Years
Back in 2000 — long before the explosion of Meet Ups, professional networking groups and virtual lawyer affiliations, Long Island based attorney David Abeshouse – then a commercial litigator and ADR practitioner who had just launched his own practice – was searching for substitutes to the collegiality and immediate access to lawyers with different practice…
Read MoreLaw Firm Vendors: Which Ones Not To Hire
Bryan Marble, principal at AmazeLaw is a law firm vendor offering various web, blogging and SEO solutions for law firms. But perhaps because Marble is married to a lawyer, he’s one of the few law firm vendors that I’ve ever seen whose willing to cross the proverbial thin, blue line and call out the bad…
Read MoreMake Money Mondays: Encourage Twenty Percent Projects
Google is famous for its twenty percent project initiative which encourages employees to spend twenty percent of their time experimenting with their own ideas. Other behemoth tech companies like LinkedIn, Facebook and Apple have adopted their version of similar programs. But so too have smaller businesses outside the tech space, reports Forbes , describing the…
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