Tag: social law firms

“Be Social or Be Irrelevant!” That phrase was coined by Vala Afshar, Chief Customer Officer and CMO of Enterasys Networks, when he wrote a blog post for The Huffington Post about the importance of hiring employees that use social media to build their personal brand. The very same thing could be said about the traditional […]

We first used the phrase The Social Law Firm about a year ago in a post on this blog. (You can read the original post here.) For us the phrase crystalizes an important idea and points to an emerging trend in the legal market. As law firms continue to face intense competitive pressures, the tools […]

Over the last year, a new position has been created by many Fortune 1000 companies — the Chief Digital Officer.  The CDO joins the executive suite as an important new player charged with the responsibility  of defining the strategy for a company’s deployment and use of social and digital technology. According to a blog post in the MIT […]

I have been fascinated by the future and what it holds for all of us for a very long time. As a child, one of my fondest memories was going to Disney World in Orlando and riding on the “Carousel of Progress.” This was my favorite ride because  it gave visitors an opportunity to peer […]

How can lawyers use social media to generate new leads? Yesterday I was invited to be a guest speaker on Esquire Coaching‘s weekly BlogTalkRadio show to talk about this topic. The host and founder of Esquire Coaching, Ann Jenrette-Thomas, is an attorney, professional certified coach and author who has spent nearly 18 years helping individuals and […]

On February 7 over 800 people gathered at the ReInvent Law NYC event to discuss the future of law and the impact of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry. The audience included a diverse group of people: large firm lawyers and legal professionals, solo practitioners, entrepreneurs, techies, academics and others. One of the […]

We came across a very interesting article recently about changes in the world of marketing.  In a blog post on Social Media Today, Bryan Kramer makes a case for the obliteration of the distinction between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to- consumer (B2C) marketing. Instead, Kramer argues, today it is all about human-to- human or H2H marketing. […]

We are very pleased by the strong interest in The Social Law Firm Index and the white paper we recently published. We’ve heard from many firms – those who ranked well as well as those who did not; we’ve also heard from many small and mid-sized firms not covered by the scope of the initial survey.   And the […]

The index is the second part of The Social Law Firm study to determine how effective the top 50 firms in the U.S. are with their use of social technologies.

In my last post, Why developing personal brands is crucial for professional services firms, I wrote about a book that I had recently read called The Social Employee: How Great Companies Make Social Media Work by Cheryl and Mark Burgess. In the book, the author writes about the importance of employee collaboration and communication. One […]

Findings from the 2013 social law firm study and white paper This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight some of the findings of the Social Law Firm Study and White Paper. The study was jointly conducted by Above the Law and Good2bSocial from June-October 2013. This White Paper,  “The Social […]

What exactly is Social Business? What is an Enterprise Social Network? Why Should I care? Trying to explain to clients and colleagues the concept of Social Business, Enterprise Social Networks (ESN’s) and their value proposition is often complicated. Even when you spend a significant amount of time explaining what Social Business is or what an […]