How to prevent social media hacking – and damage limitation

Last night I received a direct message on twitter from a follower. It suggested I might want to know about a photo of me that was circulating the net. As a long time twitter user I have seen this before,...


Why Latin America should be in your law firms’ plans for growth

The UK legal services market has not been used to much positive news in recent years. Though some law firms have managed to develop their business and grow in hard economic times, there has been an awful lot of flat-lining,...


How to use YouTube in business

You might have been under the impression that YouTube was solely for the purpose of posting videos of the Harlem Shake, badly made image collages soundtracked by music, or embarrassing wedding videos. However, it has begun to emerge as an...


How not to do social media

The use of social media in business - and especially in law - is relatively new and, as a result, it remains a fairly unpredictable beast. As its efficacy effectively depends on the reactions of millions of different users it...


Co-op legal marketing blunder

The opening up of the field of legal advice by the Legal Services Act last year left many in the profession wondering how the playing field was likely to change once other types of organisations began offering legal advice as...


Twitter needs to find its safe place

Twitter and trolls go together like jam and cake, but over the past week the Twittersphere has witnessed the kind of uber trolling that we haven’t really seen that often before – and it has been quite a shock. Bizarrely,...


How important is your law firm website?

Law is one of those professions where reputations have traditionally been built on performance, on interactions, and on who you know.  Given this history, the idea that a few online pages could influence whether or not a firm gets business...


When private communications go viral – it doesn’t matter who you are

The issue of private correspondence ‘going viral’ is not a regular occurrence for the legal profession (although Roll on Friday would like you to think it is!). Lawyers are notoriously cagey when it comes to language, knowing full well the consequences of...


The birthday blog: are all lawyers workaholics? How to take the pressure off

It may not come as a surprise to many to learn that a recent survey has found that lawyers are workaholics. Research by the legal recruiter Robert Walters, which was released at the end of last month, indicated that lawyers...


Blog power – still believe it doesn’t exist?

Despite the widely discussed impact that blogs and bloggers continue to have on the digital world, many remain rather skeptical about whether or not that impact actually means anything.  As most of the power of the blog is not especially tangible,...