Do you rank attending law firm social events right down there on the popularity scale below having a root canal? If so, you’ll identify with a young lawyer in one… [more]
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Small Talk Is a Big Opportunity: How to Work a Room
by Margaret McCaffery
Friday, January 27th, 2012
How to Avoid Resource-Draining One-Off Marketing Activities
by Susan Van Dyke
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Many firms and lawyers alike still approach marketing as a task on a to-do list. Get carpets replaced, schedule articling student interviews, get a marketing speaker for the associates…
Marketing… [more]
Legal Business Development: Embrace Uncertainty With Certainty
by Paula Black
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Uncertainty… is a lawyer's discomfort. When I sit down with clients and ask them to "project how many cases this business development initiative could produce," they squirm in their seats.… [more]
I attended an interesting webinar on “Content Curation on the Social Intranet.” given by Shel Holtz of Holtz Communication + Technology on December 13th. While the concept is not new… [more]
Creating an annual roundup of legal web technology predictions was never on my personal "to do" list. Rather, it was an accidental offering started here at Slaw a few years… [more]
Sponsorships: Waste of Time and Money or Essential to Good Client Relationships?
by Margaret McCaffery
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
This scenario will be familiar to any marketing staffer in a large law firm: the phone rings and it's someone asking why you haven't sent them the firm logo for… [more]
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. That is the old-fashioned premise behind a relatively new web marketing strategy known as remarketing or retargeting. And if you… [more]
Maximize Your Content Marketing: Get New Traffic From Old Content
by Allison C. Shields
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
I like to encourage lawyers to ‘repurpose.’ Repurposing is using what you have already done (including legal work) in new and different ways to attract the attention of a new… [more]
Lawyers know best. It must be true otherwise they wouldn’t always be asking for marketing material to give to a prospect prior to the first meeting.
Marketing people are regularly… [more]
Revisiting PDFs for Law Firm Websites & Mobile Publishing
by Steven Matthews
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Most law firms have a history of using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) to distribute their brochures, papers and longer written pieces. That practice matches what web usability experts have… [more]
If you have “friended” a reporter on Facebook you could potentially see one of your “private” photos published in a mass media publication. It happened to my client.
A recent… [more]
In September, I attended the 18th “Intranets for Corporate Communications” conference hosted by Federated Press. Attendees and speakers were an interesting mix of marketing, corporate communications and knowledge management experts… [more]
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Aliens - Exclusion and expulsion - Power to detain and deport - Minister’s certificate - Review - Evidence
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Contracts - Formation of contract - Signing - Electronic signature
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Barristers and Solicitors - Relationship with client - Confidential communications - General
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Practice - Costs - Funding before judgment - When interim or advance costs available
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