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MARKETING

Using social media for legal professionals

Social media can provide you and your firm with direct marketing to potential clients, or it can serve as a way to stay connected on a personal level with existing clients. This guide, compiled by our Practice Management Advisor partner, Affinity Consulting, covers the top platforms and how best to use them for success. It will be publicly available for one month. (Affinity Consulting)

This article customarily is restricted to VBA member-only access. It is one of 10 articles linked under Getting Clients on the Build a Law Firm page.

TECHNOLOGY

LAW FIRM HR

What legal tech means for your law firm

Dealing with law firm technology can prompt decision fatigue – so many choices, so many different options for your firm and your practice. This article provides help in making choices that are relevant to what you and your colleagues actually do. (Lawyerist)

14 effective employee retention strategies

Finding good employees is hard. Keeping them can be harder in today’s environment. Robert Half, the talent bank, has identified 14 steps - from mentoring and rewards - you can take to ensure that the good people you hire stick. (Robert Half)

WELLNESS

Why the legal system needs to prioritize attorney

well-being

A lawyer/psychologist takes a look at the challenges lawyers face (stress and anxiety), the worldview prompted by legal training (the “Nostradoomis mindset”) and the response to problems some lawyers have (substance abuse). He advises that lawyer wellness is an effort that will need constant attention. (Psychology Today)

ETHICS

Lawyer sanctioned for copying opponents' work

- including editing errors

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has sanctioned a lawyer for copying and pasting language from opponents' filings into her motions, according to reports. The judge said the copying was “neither slight nor subtle.” He added, "A quick turnaround does not excuse a lawyer's ethical duties to the court." (ABA Journal)

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