Design

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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The Case for Beautiful Design in Law Firm Websites; a conversation with Janet Odgis

This conversation with Janet Odgis is the first of a four part mini-series on web design for law firms. Janet and I discuss the business case for beautiful design and the design process at her agency Odgis + Co. Janet’s cross industry experience gives her an expansive perspective on how to effectively communicate a firm’s story through its website. She sees a websites functionality inextricably linked to its form: good design leads to effective functionality.

Recorded January 10, 2017 @ the offices of Odgis + Co. in New York City.

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Using Print; Balancing Marketing, Business Development and Business Process Improvement: a Conversation with Mark Messing

Mark Messing, the CMO of Duane Morris, kindly joined me on the Legal Marketing Studio’s last episode of 2016. What was originally intended to be a conversation focused on the way Duane Morris uses print publications within (and throughout) its marketing ended up covering quite a bit more ground. Mark generously shared his thoughts on the relationships between marketing, business development and business process; forging strong client relationships; building engaging pitch teams (and the need for them to rehearse!); the perception gap between a given marketing tool’s aesthetic value vs functional value; and where Mark sees the legal industry and legal marketing moving over the next few years. All in all, lots of really interesting insights in this fascinating podcast.

The print publications discussed in the episode can be seen on the firm’s website here.

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Recorded October 11, 2016 @ the offices of Duane Morris in Philadelphia.