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Kanye's Apology … Cooler Style
By Heather Morse on September 15, 2009
On the Legal Marketing Association's* listserv, LMA Connect, today a comment was posted on what we in the legal marketing industry could learn from Kanye West's apology on The Jay Leno Show last night for ruining Taylor Swift's moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.
As LMA Connect is a closed listserv I…
Legal Marketing Must Haves: Blogs, Resources, Websites
By Heather Morse on July 16, 2009
I really enjoyed 50 Web Resources for the Suddenly Solo Lawyer by Jim Calloway and Allison C. Shields. But one thing lacking in the article were marketing, business development and sales resources for the legal professional.
I've asked some of my esteemed readers (Jayne Navarre, Nancy Myrland and Greg Lambert) for…
By Heather Morse on August 28, 2008
Monday I came across this CNET article and thought no big deal. Google Suggest sounded a lot like what Yahoo rolled out 13 months ago and their market share since dropped 3%. Besides this offering has been available behind the scenes since roughly 2004 so the coming out party didn't seem that newsworthy.
Today Google…
In yesterday's Legal Blog Watch Alert, Carol Elefant notes that the Seattle Times is reporting that lawyer Shakespear Feyissa has demanded his alma mater's college newspaper expunge a unflattering ten-year old story from their online archives, which they have refused to do. There is complex question of journalistic ethics and decorum involved, and I don't…
Attorney Needed Course in P.R.
OK, tell me this isn't just a perfect example of how lawyers must not be thinking (but ought to) about public relations while they do their jobs. Yesterday Legal Blog Watch reported on the dismay of an Alaskan artist whose "Got Breastmilk?" t-shirts and onesies promoted infant health, when she received a cease and desist…
Is 99-cent Gas Ethical?
By Heather Morse on July 2, 2008
Equally as important, does it matter? In today's ABA Online Journal there is this item about Kevin Renfro and the Becker Law Office running a promotion at a local gas station on the first day of Kentucky's gas tax hike: 99 cents a gallon for gas.
Apparently led to do this by their PR firm…