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“Don’t connect with strangers on LinkedIn”, social media specialist tells lawyers
Thursday, 15 October 2015Lawyers should not connect on LinkedIn with anyone they have not met or already communicated with, a social media specialist has warned in the wake of the controversy that followed barrister Charlotte Proudman tweeting a comment made to her on LinkedIn.
Tags: LinkedIn, social media, Twitter
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Do you really know your clients? They prefer Corrie to EastEnders
Thursday, 2 July 2015A “typical” legal service user loves Strictly Come Dancing, prefers Coronation Street to EastEnders, regularly browses Facebook and follows Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross on Twitter. They are also married, in their later years of life, and financially stable – all according to the Legal Ombudsman.
Tags: Legal Ombudsman, legal services users, social media
Posted in Latest news, Legal Ombudsman
Survey: smaller law firms punching above their weight online
Monday, 23 February 2015Eight of the ten most successful law firms at showcasing their expertise online and distributing it via social media fall outside of the UK’s top 50, even though as a whole there is a lot more that large firms can do to improve their standing on Twitter, new research has found.
Tags: social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
Why tweet when you can ‘moot’? QC launches legal social media site
Thursday, 15 January 2015Lawyers frustrated by having to confine their tweets to 140 characters will be free to express themselves in ‘moots’ of up to 500 words on new legal social media site mootis, launched today.
Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, social media, Twitter
Posted in Latest news, Practice points, Technology
Pinsents “an example to other big firms” on Twitter use, report says
Tuesday, 24 June 2014Pinsent Masons is an example to other law firms on how to make the most of a Twitter account, while the ‘private’ setting on Slaughter and May’s account makes it the firm not to emulate, according to a report on the use of social media by large City law firms.
Tags: City firms, social media, Twitter
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
Single parent community interest company launches major family law panel
Friday, 30 May 2014A community interest company which offers support to separating parents through its websites OnlyMums and OnlyDads, has launched a family law panel which it says could become “the place to go as the starting point for family law matters”.
Tags: family law, Resolution, separation, social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Practice points
Solicitors favour LinkedIn over Facebook and Twitter as social media use slowly grows
Monday, 10 December 2012Fewer than half of solicitors in Scotland use the three main social media platforms for professional purposes, according to new research. The most popular social network tool was LinkedIn, with 24% of the solicitors polled using it on a daily or weekly basis.
Tags: social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
Twitter and Facebook are the new golf course – law firms urged to take online marketing initiative
Tuesday, 16 October 2012Law firms will have to adopt a more forceful marketing model if they are to survive in the post-alternative business structure (ABS) marketplace, a specialist in growing online businesses has urged.
Tags: marketing, social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
All hail the high street?
Thursday, 13 September 2012A common trope on this website and elsewhere is that alternative business structures and all the other changes in the legal market will hit the traditional high street law firm hard. In saying this, there is an implication that a reduction in the number of solicitors on high streets is a bad thing. This is a shaky assumption – if everything was shipshape, I don’t suppose so many non-lawyers would be eying up the market. For one thing, quantity does not equal quality – better one efficient, accessible law firm down the road than three inefficient, inaccessible practices.
Tags: high street firms, social media
Posted in Blog
Who owns your departing fee-earner’s LinkedIn contacts? New guidance warns firms to plan ahead
Wednesday, 4 July 2012Law firms’ social media policies need to extend to issues such as who owns contacts and content developed by staff members through the use of networks like LinkedIn, while they should also be cautious about searching the social media activity of potential recruits, new guidance has advised.
Tags: social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology