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Twitter becoming key referral source for solicitors, says research
Thursday, 14 June 2012There has been a massive increase in people using Twitter to ask for recommendations of professional service providers in the last two years, with solicitors one of the most in demand, according to research conducted for Orange Business.
Tags: social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Technology
Eight PI brands dominate web searches as market fails to make best of social media, says report
Friday, 4 May 2012Just eight personal injury brands dominate the web searches of potential clients, with national law firm Irwin Mitchell leading the way, new research has found. The report also found social media strategies “massively under-developed within the legal services sector”.
Tags: personal injury, social media
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
News round-up: firm overturns £100k wasted costs order, record number of law firms, and much more
Tuesday, 13 March 2012Our latest round-up of news includes Fisher Meredith winning an appeal against a big wasted costs order, SRA figures on the number of firms and solicitors, the first law firm to ‘pin’ on growing social media service Pinterest, fee income up at the largest law firms, and more.
Tags: bar standards board, Barristers, Legal Services Consumer Panel, personal injury, public access, social media
Posted in Barristers, Consumer panel, Latest news, Marketing & PR, News In Brief, Technology
Lawyers told: don’t be put off social media by barrister fined over tweets
Friday, 3 February 2012Lawyers were this week told not to be discouraged from embracing social media after a barrister who was among the legal pioneers on Twitter was fined for messages he posted on the service. However, the case does raise questions over the role of regulators in policing lawyers’ activity on Twitter.
Tags: bar standards board, social media, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Marketing & PR, Solicitors
Firms using social media to broadcast rather than converse, survey finds
Monday, 17 October 2011Bigger law firms are embracing social media but then failing to engage in two-way communications through it, new research has found. The survey found that nearly half of the firms prohibited staff from accessing social networks from work, even though clients were keen to interact that way.
Tags: social media
Posted in Marketing & PR, News
Law firms warming to social media but retain concerns about the cloud
Tuesday, 24 May 2011Lawyers are warming to the use of social media in their practices but have reservations about risks associated with cloud computing, according to a major survey of law firm IT personnel. Three-quarters of the 712 specialists surveyed said they felt positive about social media as a tool to deliver value to their firms.
Tags: social media
Posted in News, Technology
Clients to push law firm engagment with social media, says survey
Thursday, 24 March 2011A large majority of law firms believe they need to devote resources to social media because clients will increasingly be influenced by the strength of their presence in the sector, according to a survey.
Tags: social media
Posted in Marketing & PR, News, Technology
Is Foursquare the new Twitter?
Monday, 27 September 2010Martin Gregory begins a series looking at three of the less well known/utilised on-line applications. In the coming weeks, he will concentrate on Squidoo and Hubpages – tools that can help promote your law firm’s visibility on the World Wide Web, but he starts with Foursquare, which he says is possibly the most intriguing and scaleable social media network to emerge in recent years.
Tags: social media
Posted in Blog, Marketing & PR
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The rise of the agent
We believe AI agents are going to represent the biggest change to the way in which the general public interact with professional services business for generations.
The lonely role of a COFA: sharing the burden of risk management
Compliance officers for finance and administration in law firms can often find themselves walking a solitary path. But what if we could create a collaborative culture of shared accountability?
Mind the (justice) gap: Why are RTAs going up but claims still down?
The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the latest government data.
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