June 2010

A Surefire Plan for Generating Referrals

There are many ways to skin a cat (whatever that means), and there are many ways to market your practice. Here’s one idea that I guarantee will work for you. How can I guarantee it? I know it works because it’s working right here, right now. This site, Divorce Discourse, generates a gazillion referrals to [...]

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TechnoLawyer: 10 Questions That Lead to Explosive Practice Growth

TechnoLawyer is running some columns I’ve written in its SmallLaw series. The website has some excellent writers (plus me) addressing small firm issues. TechnoLawyer makes the columns public, a week after release, on the TechnoLawyer blog. You can get the content a week earlier by subscribing to SmallLaw via e-mail. My most recent column came out yesterday. [...]

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I’ve Got a Sticky Situation. Can You Help?

I’d like your opinion, please. Here are the facts: I interviewed a lawyer for a podcast here on Divorce Discourse. The interview went well and it’s fairly interesting. It’s still on the site. Since the interview, the lawyer was arrested on charges of distributing child pornography. He has now surrendered his law license and agreed [...]

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Sunday Funny: Will It Blend? iPhone 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLreo24WYeQ&feature=player_embedded

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LinkedIn, Getting Things Done, and Making Clients Right. Saturday!

Happy Saturday! Every Saturday, I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across that might interest you. These are things that caught my attention this week. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them if you’re curious. I also include a picture I like. LinkedIn Takes Groups [...]

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The Missing Element That Destroys Your Website

I visited the website of a family law attorney yesterday in search of his phone number. I needed to place a quick call to this guy about some help I needed. I had a crappy Internet connection, and I was in a hurry. I found the site easily by searching on his name and city. [...]

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Can a Divorce Lawyer Stay Married?

Divorce lawyers end up divorced as often as our clients. I’m not sure why we don’t acquire some special knowledge from watching so many people make the same mistakes over and over. But, alas, we don’t seem to gain any immunity from our experience. Plenty of us get divorced. I’ve been fortunate not to have [...]

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The Price of Free Software

This site runs on WordPress. I also run my other sites, North Carolina Divorce, Stay Happily Married, and Divorce Talk Radio, on WordPress. The WordPress software is free. We pay for hosting at Rackspace, but the software costs us absolutely nothing. In fact, we’ve installed dozens of plugins created by the WordPress community, and they are [...]

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