Are Referred Clients Yours or Not?

Often, solo attorneys and boutique firms rely heavily on referrals from other attorneys for their business. This is referred to passive marketing. Some of these attorneys often quip that they don’t have their own clients. I disagree. You have a unique opportunity to form relationships with these clients, no matter how they came to employ…

Disney’s Approach to Excellence

Here is the last of the columns I wrote from the 2011 LMA National Conference: A member of The Disney Institute delivered the Keynote speech about Disney’s Approach to Business Excellence in the opening session. Who knew that legal marketers could find so much inspiration from and draw so many parallels with an organization that…

Achieving Win-Win Relationships with Your Clients

It’s almost time for the 2012 LMA National Conference, which helped me to remember that I had not yet posted a couple of great columns I wrote about last year’s conference. One of the most well attended sessions each year at the LMA National Conference in the General Counsel Panel. In 2011, the panel consisted of Stephen…