Create strong referral networks to grow your business 
By:
Jenna Weber
Published: January 30, 2013
Tags: business development, marketing, practice management, referrals
It’s easy to say you build your practice by word of mouth, but how do you really know whether word is spreading?
It is more beneficial to have a set strategy you follow consistently in order to fully reap the rewards of your professional relationships. This is why it’s crucial to build a strong network of referral partners or centers of influence to help develop a steady flow of qualified referrals.
Using ‘Meetup’ for marketing
Published: January 17, 2013
Tags: business development, marketing, practice management
Lawyers are using the social networking site Meetup to meet other lawyers, get referral sources and find potential clients.
Exercises to set goals for your law firm and see them through
Published: May 15, 2012
Tags: business development
If you have lots of ideas for your law firm but they remain in the realm of the abstract year after year, here are some 10-minute exercises that can help you set specific goals and turn them into reality.
Developer and city settle golf course suit for $2.4 million
Published: April 26, 2011
Tags: business development, Washington
A man who won a $3 million verdict two years ago against the city of Kennewick, Wash. after being prevented from developing an RV park on a golf course property will accept the city’s offer to settle the suit for $2.46 million.
You are your most important client
By:
Stewart Hirsch
Published: April 8, 2011
Tags: business development, task list
Some lawyers have a fear that if they put themselves on their to-do list, they’re no longer client-focused, that it’s wrong to address their own needs if they have a client to whom they need to attend. But according to columnist and former attorney Stewart Hirsch, that simply is not true. If lawyers don’t take care of themselves, they’re not as valuable to their clients.
The basics of business development
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: March 17, 2011
Tags: business development, networking, webinar
For lawyers looking to jump start their client development skills, Dallas-based career and client development coach Cordell Parvin recently conducted a webinar entitled “Business Development 101 for 2011 and Beyond,” hosted by LexBlog.
More firms are creating ‘alumni networks’
By:
Reni Gertner
Published: November 9, 2009
Tags: 20 Things Lawyers Need to Know in 2010, alumni networks, business development
Only a few years ago, many attorneys would never have dreamed of maintaining official contact with the law firms they left.
But an increasing number of firms are realizing that staying in touch with former partners, associates and staffers can be good for business, especially at a time when so many attorneys are in transition due to the recession.
Effective marketing doesn’t have to bust your budget
By:
Tom Kane
Published: August 17, 2009
Tags: business development, marketing, practice management
Effective and productive business development activities do not have to be expensive, especially during a down economy.
When to sue your client
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 27, 2006
Tags: attorney fees, business development, clients, legal malpractice
Twenty years ago a mentor told Boston lawyer Janet Kenton-Walker that the most important discussion a lawyer has with a client is about legal fees.
It was the best advice she ever got, and she has lived by it for more than two decades in her career as a domestic relations lawyer. So it was against her better judgment in a recent divorce case that Kenton-Walker continued to work without a new retainer after the client’s initial one was used up.
Choosing a managing partner in a small firm
By:
Reni Gertner
Published: November 10, 2003
Tags: business development, practice management, small firms
Small law firms, in their urgency to practice law, often fail at managing the business that will make the law practice prosper.
