Having a law firm Website is a business necessity these days. The American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center has just released a new Web feature, FYI: Starting a Website. Their five step outline is relatively brief and easy-to-follow. it contains links to lots of other online material.

I’m at the Indiana Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference and just finished giving the opening keynote presentation on Increasing Client Satisfaction. The great thing about these conferences is that you always learn something, no matter how many different conferences you have attended (and I have been to quite a few of these conferences in

Tom Kane has posted his Top Ten Marketing Tips with links to some explanation and elaboration. There is great advice you can absorb in a couple of minutes. I regularly follow Tom’s blog.

I noted with interest a comment posted by someone noting that many of these ideas do not apply in a criminal defense

Let me start by saying that I generally hate lawyer ads on television. I’ve seen many of them and they are generally tacky and detrimental to the public’s perception of the legal system and the legal profession. Of course it could be said that they reflect the state of modern television. But having said that

Lawyers give out lots of business cards. How long has it been since you last thought about redesigning or changing your business card? My essay The Lawyer’s Business Card was written some time ago, but is still relevant today. Are traditional or innovative business cards best? Depends on the type of clients you seek, I’d