20 years ago, you opened your door and your client walks in...

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Opening the door was an invitation, an engagement, a path to your expertise. Your client knew your door would be open and a wealth of expert legal knowledge would be at hand. Fast forward to 2011, that door is still open but there are a lot more...

If 'legal content is King', then up to date content is the ace in the pack!

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There are two major pitfalls that prevent a law firm’s website from being successful. One is bad design and another is out of date content. Out of date content is, in my opinion, more damaging than not having a website at all. All it says is that a...

Can static design be as bad as static content?

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Okay okay, you probably won't consider changing your carpets or painting the same room a different colour every couple of years in your house, but ask yourself this, how often do you see new promotions and design across the UK today? Sure, there is a...

Legal Marketing Event/Conference Calendar

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As you may know if you are a regular reader of this blog or our legal marketing newsletter, we are regular attendees at all kinds of events run by other businesses in and around the legal sector.  Particularly in the Sep/Oct "events silly...

Photo video from 360 Legal Conference

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Finally got hold of some photos to be able to prepare this Animoto video.  Spot the orange dog! Photos courtesy of Paul Coleshill from http://www.rawphoto.co.uk Why not sign up your own Animoto account ....

Information at the speed of light but will clients see the end of the tunnel?

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The need for faster, more instantaneous access to law firms and their fee earners has intensified since the dawn of social media. The need for legal sector to keep-to-date with technological advances is great. But the key question has always been what do...

Legal Futures Conference report

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I spent the day at the Legal Futures conference yesterday.  It's the first one I've been to and was definitely worth attending, even though it was on a Monday (I don't usually "travel" on a Monday) and meant getting a 6am train...

Conscious canine charity challenge - the orange dog...

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Conscious Canine Charity Challenge If you have ever seen us out and about you may have seen our ‘Orange Dogs’ dotted around conference venues and making an impact at conference dinners up and down the country. Well, last week at LawNet’s...

Gordon Turner Employment Lawyers - spell checking

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Did you see that article in Obiter (inside back page of The Law Gazette) where Gordon Turner of http://www.gtemploymentlawyers.co.uk set them a challenge to find typos on his website.  £5 to charity for every one.  Obiter found 11 so...

Suing Santa - Xtranormal video for Christmas 2011

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This video was produced using Animoto, a great web based service for producing great looking "photo videos" although you can upload short video clips as well. ...

Animoto Video from LawNet Awards

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This video was produced using Animoto, a great web based service for producing great looking "photo videos" although you can upload short video clips as well. The photos were taken by Steve Pope - http://fotowalespr.spitfirephoto.biz/ ...

Clarkson Wright & Jakes and Buckles win LawNet awards!

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We had a great day at the LawNet annual conference on Friday.   There were great presentations from Nick Jarrett-Kerr who also covered for the very sick (bed ridden in fact) George Bull of Baker Tilly. The day's interaction was definitely...