Law Marketing/Networking

On Ethical Issues Raised by “Letter Lawyers”

January 29, 2012 Law Marketing/Networking

Mark Bennett refers to them as “letter lawyers”; they are the lawyers who, with the hopes of securing new clients, send out advertising materials to the people whose names and addresses have been listed on public arrest records. A friend of ours was charged recently with a misdemeanor traffic offense and received over 20 letters [...]

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The Mad Men of Legal Advertising

September 7, 2011 Humor

H/T Bitter Lawyer

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DUI Lawyers ISO Telemarketers

July 27, 2011 Law Marketing/Networking

It is an out-of-state phone number so I am suspicious even before I answer the phone.  A guy with a deep, serious voice is on the other end.  He has lots of DUI clients looking for a lawyer.  Could I possibly take on some more clients?  You know, to help them out. Thank you very [...]

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Brian Tannebaum: On the Ethics of On-Line Marketing

June 28, 2011 Law Marketing/Networking

From My Law License:  The video speaks for itself.   ROI 2011: Brian Tannebaum – Ethics and Online Marketing from Radius of Influence on Vimeo.

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Telling Your Wife You Have Been Sued For Defamation

May 12, 2011 Criminal Law Bloggers

My wife heard a lot of terrible and heart-wrenching stories while interviewing Iraqi victims of the Abu Ghraib torture. She was always completely spent whenever she got back from one of her trips to the Middle East, and I swear that experience took ten years off of her life. One of the stories I liked [...]

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When Your Business Card Is More Memorable Than You Are

May 11, 2011 Humor

I am pretty good with faces and with names.  I have always been impressed — almost flattered — by people who remembered my name after a single meeting, and at one point early in my career, I decided to make a more concerted effort to learn people’s names upon meeting them and to commit those [...]

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More on Joseph Rakofsky: The Story Keeps Getting Worse

April 10, 2011 Current Events

“We really didn’t check him out.  He said he was this and could do that.  We thought he was telling the truth.” — Henrietta Watson, grandmother of defendant Dontrell Deaner The blogosphere has been abuzz the past week with the story of Joseph Rakofsky, a 33-year-old lawyer two years out of law school who took [...]

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On Sticker Shock and Legal Fees

February 8, 2011 Law Marketing/Networking

A friend of mine walked into a store intending to buy a bottle of perfume for his girlfriend. While he knew that the particular type of perfume he was intending to buy was expensive, he had no idea exactly how expensive it was until the clerk started to ring up his purchase. My friend is [...]

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On The Facebook Burglar and Other Judgmentally-Challenged Individuals

December 15, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Two stories in today’s Washington Post illustrate the growing role of Facebook in facilitating the prosecution of criminal offenses in the D.C. area. In the first, the Post describes how a 25-year-old Arlington man was arrested after threatening on his Facebook page to set off pipe bombs on metro cars or in Georgetown during rush [...]

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On Networking, Referrals, and Friendships

December 10, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

In a couple of hours, I am going to put aside the motion to suppress I have been working on.  I will shower and shave, and put on a jacket and a tie.  I will leave the comfort of my warm and cozy home study and step outside into the cold, where this year’s first [...]

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