Business Development

Opportunity in the Moderate Income Demographic with The Court Square Law Project’s Naree Sinthusek and Jake Dore

Naree Sinthusek and Jake Dore of the Court Square Law Project discuss the Project’s mission of providing quality legal services for people who believe they can’t afford a lawyer and the market opportunity in that representation gap. We discuss the business and social justice aspects inherent in that mission and the difficulty of balancing those opposing forces. We discuss, as well, the educational aspects of the Project: encouraging the recognition within the legal community of the business opportunity (and social good) in serving this demographic and showing this moderate income demographic that legal representation is available and affordable.

Recorded February 26, 2017 at the offices of The Court Square Law Project.

Adapting to the New LinkedIn Interface with Bruce Segall

In early 2017 LinkedIn began rolling out its new interface. The changes were met with a mix of delight, acceptance and gnashing of teeth. Regardless of how one feels about the changes, in what ways is it necessary to adapt one’s business development strategy on the platform? What will continue to work? What will get a lower response? And what new opportunities are there? Bruce Segall of Marketing Sense joins me on this episode to explore what the changes to LinkedIn’s interface portend for users and suggest about the direction the platform will move in the future.

Recorded March 21, 2017 @ the Shetler Studios in New York City.

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Digital Tools and Human Relationships; a conversation with Todd Rengel

Digital marketing tools are increasingly sophisticated and ever expanding in capability, yet at the end of the day the goal of business development is to build and strengthen human relationships in the real world. In this fourth and final episode of the Legal Marketing Studio’s monthly mini-series on web design for law firms, Todd Rengel of Animus Rex takes us through the expanding potential of digital tools (specifically websites) over the past two decades while reminding us of the need to remain grounded in the underlying strategic goal of all business development business: cultivating human relationships. What do your customers want to see? How do they want to see it? And how can you make it easy for them?

Recorded February 17, 2017 @ the offices of Animus Rex in New York City.

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Moving Law Firm Websites Towards Publishing Platforms Using Attorney Microsites, a conversation with Robert Algeri


The nature of the web is constantly changing, giving law firms significant opportunities to leverage their websites in new and innovative ways. In the second episode of a four part mini-series on web design for law firms, Robert Algeri of Great Jakes joins me to talk about his agency’s vision for law firms’ websites as publishing platforms and their use of Attorney Microsites as one means of achieving this. There are some terrific insights on the potential for law firms’ web presences.

Recorded January 9, 2017 @ the offices of Great Jakes in New York City.

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