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Getting personal: Harrison Pensa’s smart new website
Stem client Harrison Pensa, a full-service law firm based in London, Ontario and serving clients throughout southwestern Ontario and across Canada, has just launched a new website. That might not, in itself, be something worth drawing to your attention. But I do think Harrison Pensa’s approach to its new site is smart, savvy, and sophisticated, and I thought… more »
Mobile-Friendly Law Firm Websites: Ideas & Examples
I’ve been feeling that the legal industry was on the verge of adopting mobile friendly websites for a few months now, so when a new report from the Law Firm Mobile blog arrived in my inbox yesterday, it was pretty timely. Inspired by LexBlog’s State of the AmLaw Blogosphere, Law Firm Mobile set out to determine which firms,… more »
Techshow PPT Decks on Website Building and SEO
In the “better late than never” and “short but sweet” categories, I’ve finally uploaded the slide decks from my presentations at this year’s ABA Techshow, which was held from April 11-13 in Chicago. Website 101: Build and Rebuild was co-presented with Courtney Ward-Reichard and covers all the major aspects of law firm websites: selecting and managing a domain… more »
Online innovation: a privacy policy generator
Stem client Harrison Pensa LLP of London, Ontario has done a great service to every organization that operates a website (which is to say, much of the corporate world). Led by business and technology lawyer David Canton (author of the eLegal blog), the firm has helped create a privacy policy generator called PrivacyTool. PrivacyTool guides users through… more »
WordPress Security for Law Firm Websites
If your law firm website or blog uses WordPress as its content management system, please take a look at my latest Slaw column on beefing up security measures around the administration login area. WordPress is our preferred development platform here at Stem, so I’ve tried to outline some of the steps we take when setting up a new website.… more »
Tips for moving domain names
Moving your website from one domain to another is no easy task, as the American Bar Association is currently finding out. The ABA is in the middle of a transition from their long-term home at ABANet.org over to their new domain at Americanbar.org. I say middle because many of the established addresses on their old website are throwing 404 errors… more »
Law Firm Blog Location and SEO
My friend Kevin O’Keefe is debating the effectiveness of placing law firm blogs within the law firm website, as opposed to setting up each blog with its own domain name. Kevin clearly supports the idea of giving each firm blog its own domain, and wrote on this same topic last year. An important piece of context… more »
How to fix your law firm’s Media page
I have kind of a standing recommendation for organizations regarding their websites: every few months, review your site, identify the 10% least relevant pages (based on page visits, links, lack of currency, etc.), delete those pages on the spot, and see if anyone notices. No one has yet had the gumption to take me up on that, but I’m inclined… more »
Seeklogo.com for Logo Design Ideas?
Designing a new logo and looking for new ideas? Try SeekLogo.com, a new search tool that indexes 200,000 downloadable vector graphic logos. The term ‘law’ produced only 59 logos, so it’s not particularly heavy on legal examples; but a database of 200K operational logo designs may help your next brainstorming session. more »
Matt Homann’s 10 New Rules of Legal Marketing
Matt Homann over at the [non] billable hour has a great new post up titled 10 New Rules for Legal Marketing. As many of you may know, Matt is a long-term member of the legal blogging community, and prides himself on inspiring innovative thinking. His current push over at lexthink is to inject that method into his… more »
Findlaw Selling PageRank
Most in-house law firm Marketers were aware of the Findlaw PageRank sales scam long before it hit the blogosphere. Mostly because they were the target of a huge email blast from Findlaw a few weeks back. Which is how I found out about the offering, when clients then forwarded the program details to me for review. [If you're looking… more »
Do Lawyers Watch TV?
Where do I find the time? A common question for many lawyers… for just about ever subject, actually. Not billable? Sorry, no time. Keeping perspective on personal productivity is an important issue. True, but what about down time? While the typical lawyer has less ‘social surplus’ (see video below) than the average person out there, most still have *some* time… more »
Blogs, Websites & Ron Chapman
Following up on a Stem news item I just posted, I’d like to offer a blogging welcome to Florida criminal lawyer Ron Chapman. Ron became a Stem client just after Christmas, and we’ve been slowly retooling some of the aspects of his blog & website. Here’s a short snippet about Ron’s practice: About Ronald Chapman, P.A.: Since 1990,… more »
Kevin O’Keefe: Why most law firm web sites stink
Kevin O’Keefe of Lexblog has re-mixed a short post from the Wall Street Journal called ”Why most business web sites stink‘. Kevin’s re-title, Why Most Law Firm Web Sites Stink. The recommendations via Harley Manning at Forrester are nothing new, saying ’97% of corporate websites get a failing grade’. With the… more »
Law Firms & Content Strategy
There’s an old adage on the web says ‘content is king’, and that continues to be true even when selling professional services. Your content is your drawing card. It acts as proof that the writer is knowledgeable about their subject, but more important, is an absolute requirement to drawing new visitors to your website. Without content, the only visitors your website will see… more »
