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"How Social Media Benefits Clients"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "I have to confess. If I had my way I would like to go back to the Leave it to Beaver days.  I liked it when the World Series was played the first week in October and I didn't have a computer on my desk and a cell phone and PDA on my hip. Life was more simple then.

...Recently, lawyers and law firms have seen the value of blogging, webinars, podcasts and using social media tools for client development. Here are some of the ways clients benefit from this advancement. Business clients can:

1. More effectively and more efficiently do research on the lawyer or law firm they are considering.
2. More effectively determine what the lawyer knows about the client's industry and their business.
3. More effectively determine the lawyer's background and experience in the specific legal area of interest.
4. Get a sense of the lawyer's personality and better determine whether the client will have rapport with the lawyer..."

Cordell has eight more ways clients can benefit. Continue reading this interesting post by clicking on the author's name.

Source: Law Consulting Blog, 4 November 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).