Lawyer Marketing Blog: Legal Marketing & PR

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Marketing & PR Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Legal Marketing & PR

Lawyer Marketing Blog

Focused on Internet marketing for lawyers and how to generate new business through the Internet. Topics include SEO, SEM, video marketing, and website design and content.

Post Frequency: 0.2/day

Last Entry: November 20, 2008 at 21:19:22

Legal Jobs Go - Mayer Brown Latest To Issue The Pink Slips

Posted on November 20, 2008
And so the legal layoffs continue - the latest being this memo from Mayer Brown: Despite the current conditions in the worldwide financial markets, Mayer Brown is having a strong year, with an increase in gross revenues. Most of our practice areas are performing well...

007?s Rules For Legal Jobs In 008 - For Shaken and Stirred Attorneys Everywhere

Posted on November 16, 2008
A little piece we did for LawFuel today: James Bond?s Quantum of Solace has hit the screen with the usual Bond hoopla, but maybe in all the action there is some tips for those law job seekers who are shaken, but not stirred by the current legal market...

Legal Jobs Threatened By Increased Pessimism, Survey Finds

Posted on October 27, 2008
The legal market continues to deteriorate internationally, with optimism among UK leading law firms dropping 40% in the past year alone, according to a report carried in LegalWeek. The report from accountancy firm Smith and Williamson was carried out among 102 firms and showed that some firms were looking at “defensive mergers” in the months ahead...

Aaahh. The Meltdown Hit Legal Jobs In London - Big Time

Posted on October 14, 2008
There was a time, many years ago, when any job in the bureaucracy was relatively safe from “interference” by pesky government superiors. No more. The Times reports that the UK Department of Justice is about to axe over 3000 jobs, a move that will see up to 100 courts close...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Legal Jobs Under Threat With Wall Street Woes, Survey Shows

Posted on September 20, 2008
An increasing number of lawyers are worried that problems on Wall Street will hurt their careers, particularly if a new Above the Law survey is true. Forty-two percent of practicing lawyers responding to a survey through the blog said the recent bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch would harm their careers...

Looking For A Law Job? Heller?s Have A Blog You May Want To Read

Posted on September 18, 2008
When law jobs get tough, the tough get . . well, blogging. Lots of trouble over at Heller Ehrman and now there’s “Heller Highwater”, a blog that just went up giving survival tips for their lawyers. Since the failure of the merger with Mayer Brown things have not been great for the boys and girls over [...

Okay, So How About Lawyer32.0 For A Title?

Posted on September 15, 2008
There are a lot of fancy job titles around - as we all know only too well - but when it comes to lawyers, what about descriptions like “technical director of legal and corporate affairs” and “senior product manager for intellectual property and licensing”? The descriptions were seeni in a recent product announcement from the monolith...

NZ Legal Jobs Looking A Little Shaky - But You Can Pick Up Your Law Marketability

Posted on September 11, 2008
We’ve been writing a new report on the New Zealand law jobs scene - tentatively entitled ‘Talent Wars and Rocky Roads’. The thing that’s come through, in part at least, is the fact that the legal scene in our home territory in New Zealand is that talent is not only still the key ingredient necessary [...

Worried About Your Legal Job? Here?s What the CEOs Have To Say

Posted on July 17, 2008
The credit crunch and other issues have occupied the minds of lawyers in recent months, but what does it mean for law firms in terms of the outlook? LegalWeek published an outlook from top firms managing partners. A sampling: Tim Jones, Freshfields - ?Litigation is a big practice area right now...

A Quality Law Degree In Two Years? Come On.

Posted on June 22, 2008
The ABA lifted a requirement that law degrees be over six semesters right back in 2004 - a major deal that lead to the odd legal institution instituting their two-year law degrees. But now, a more esteemed name in legal education, NorthWestern University has entered the fray with it’s two-year degree...

Climate Change Law Jobs Heat Up

Posted on June 07, 2008
Credit crunching and other issues may have slowed down the growth of firms in the financial sector, but the ever-increasing range of new opportunities includes climate change law. Carbon trading, new climate regulations, environmental iniatives of all types have created a plethora of new opportunities, which younger lawyers are primed to seize...

When Law Jobs Go Bad - Sentencing Melvyn Weiss

Posted on May 27, 2008
It’s kind of unusual for a defendant to file his own sentencing memo to a court, but when the defendant is class action guru-turned-defendant Mel Weiss well, anything can happen. The WSJ Law Blog published the memo, which carried more than 275 letters attesting to the good-turned-bad lawyer’s good deeds...

Law Jobs Go At DC Attorney General?s Office

Posted on May 24, 2008
Many may think that public law is for whimps and not for the real stuff, well in the case of the Washington DC Attorney General’s office the plan is to transform the office into a “first rate law firm” - starting with what all first rate law firms do and firing lawyers...

Pregnancy, Adoption And Law Jobs That Recognize Them

Posted on May 20, 2008
Sullivan & Cromwell started the ball rolling - their generous (18 paid weeks’ maternity leave) started in July and now other firms are joining the queue to be nice to mothers. That generosity hasn’t always been the case, of course, but the work/life thing is catching and as American Lawyer point out, similar policies extend to adoptive [...

Law Job Layoffs, Pregnancy And Unwanted Emails - A Paul Hastings PR Nightmare

Posted on May 09, 2008
The brouhaha over Paul Hastings associate Shinyung Ho has been all over the law blogs this week and points up some of the key issues for not only pregnant “life stylers” seeking a life along with a law careers, but also the way large firms handle layoffs...

Oprah?s Lawyer - Now What Sort of Law Job Would That Be?

Posted on May 01, 2008
Celebrities with one name are pretty big - that’s why they have one name - but what about the lawyers who act for them or, in Oprah’s case, the Chicago attorney she found because she liked his tie. William L Becker got the call in 1988 because Oprah had been searching for a lawyer...

Law Partnerships - And A New Law Career Path For Some Firms

Posted on May 01, 2008
The Lawyer have a story on the new partners entering the fray - ah, we mean partnerships - in the UK. Hammonds take the cake for the most new partners, as you can see from The Lawyer’s pic, below. The firm now has nine per cent of its total partner as ‘new chums’, compared to most [...

Looking For Work-Life Balance? Then A Law Job May Be TOOO Much

Posted on April 27, 2008
The good old State Bar of New York has come out with a work/life balance report that shows that the holy grail of work/life balance is as elusive as ever, with lawyers missing out on the chance to play a part not only in the community, but also in their own families...

Best Paid Jobs - The Top 10 Pay Rates - And No Lawyers

Posted on April 25, 2008
We posted an item from the The Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey from June 2007 showing the top paying jobs (by hour) in the US. So which position do the lawyers occupy? Top 3? Nope. How about some mid-level position? Nope. Law teachers do come in at an equal number six with general [...

Top Lady At Facebook - Just Where A Law Degree (And Big Brains) Can Take You

Posted on April 17, 2008
The places where lawyers - or those with law degrees anyway - can take you can be as interesting as looking at where lawyers go in the law itself. For Sheryl Sandberg, her ‘non legal’ path has taken her through the hallowed halls of the World Bank, the Treasury, on to (more colorful now) Google [...

Law Jobs And The ?R? Word - More Layoffs Around

Posted on April 15, 2008
Thelen Reid is the latest firm to announce layoffs, confirmed by AbovetheLaw reporting a layoff of 26 associates and 85 staff firm-wide. That’s a layoff rate of around four per cent of Thelen’s total headcount of 600 lawyers. Thelen co-chair Stephen O’Neal told ATL that the layoffs were spread out among groups, but with “some areas more [...

Sexy Law - Let?s Go Dating Miss Climate Change

Posted on April 09, 2008
Want to step into a law job that places you in the very epicenter of ‘cool’? I wrote in ‘Briefcase’, the NZ Law blog about the fact that different areas of law have different levels of ‘coolness’ to them, undoubtedly now lead by Climate Change, as the hot area, pun excused...

Legal Jobs Outlook in April - Buoyant?s the Word, Says One

Posted on April 06, 2008
Despite all the pessimism about the downturn in the legal jobs market, LegalRecruitment’s Jonathan Fagan reports from the UK that the legal job market is quite buoyant still, and despite a slow down around the early Easter, he’s found plenty of quality candidates with a good outlook on the permanent front and less good for [...

Cool Law Job Wanted? The Coolest Law Firm Vote-Off

Posted on April 06, 2008
The ‘coolest’ law firm? Well, there are plenty of places for law jobs and plenty of surveys of law firms, but it’s AboveTheLaw that is taking votes on the coolest law firms - down to the final four bracket, as below. Voting shows the firms headed for the final four are Cleary Gottlieb, Davis Polk, Latham & [...

Big Jobs Growth In Big China Market

Posted on April 03, 2008
Noone needs telling about China’s growth and apart from the “troubles” in Tibet, the Olympic Games are casting the giant in an increasingly favourable, if fuggy and polluted, light. Law firms are recruiting big time, as a PriceWaterhouseCoopers survey has indicated with the large firms predicting a 10% growth this year alone...

The Law Firm Of The Future - What Will Your Law Job Look Like?

Posted on April 02, 2008
UK lawyers Eversheds has released a report it commissioned from RSG Consulting on the future of law, “Law Firm of the 21st Century” which has stirred considerable interest among the legal community and blogs like JD Bliss. RSG surveyed 50 top partners of the leading law firms in the United Kingdom and 50 general counsels, legal directors, and [...

Bed Bugs With That Law Job?

Posted on March 31, 2008
Poor old Cravaths, one of Wall Street’s most eminent firms, has been struck down with some bedbug infestation. The blogs and wires are alive, along with the offices and beds evidently, a bedbug invasion. For instance: AboveTheLaw: 1 . An email was sent around Cravath last week about the presence of bed bugs at the firm...

Query: Was This Barack Obama?s Legal Job Or Not?

Posted on March 30, 2008
Was Barack Obama exaggerating to describe himself as a “law professor” at the University of Chicago, asks AbovetheLaw? The University itself answered the query clearly, we think. “The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer...

Top Law Job? Then Check Allen & Overy?s Top Chargeout Rate

Posted on March 28, 2008
Charge-out rates have always been a subject of intense interest, particularly among the Big Law boys and girls, so it was interesting to see Above The Law take a look at global firm Allen & Overy’s chargeout schedule in Europe, which differentiates between Paris and London, the average rate being around US$1100 at current USD [...

Thinking About Changing Legal Jobs - Inhouse, Perhaps? Think Carefully.

Posted on March 26, 2008
Working inhouse has been a growing attraction for many lawyers seeking to change legal jobs and who want to remove themselves from the grind of the six-minute unit and the pressure of private practice. Query, though. Is it actually any better? Are the lifestyle benefits any greater? Has the pace and nature of inhouse legal [...

Related Law Bulletins

Personal Injury: 5 Reasons Why Your NY Injury Lawyer Will Lose His License
1. He steals your money.2. He steals your money.3. He steals your ...

Immigration Lawyer And Assistant Found Guilty Of Visa Fraud
The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of T...

Injustice - Righting a Wrong - NY Medical Malpractice Lawyer Explains
Have you ever felt that you were wronged? Maybe you noticed it whe...

Dead Man's Family Calls NY Malpractice Lawyer First Before Burying Him
THIS IS A TRUE STORYA call came in the other day. A hysterical wom...

2 Questions Every New York Malpractice Lawyer Needs To Ask
A potential client calls the office with a story that rambles on a...