International Lawyers Network Welcomes New Member in India

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 21, 2019

We’re so pleased to welcome a new member firm into our Network, Ahlawat & Associates, an Indian firm with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and abroad.

Ahlawat & Associates aims at providing high quality, practical and strategic legal solutions to help clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. All their partners have specialized knowledge of both the legal framework as well as the specific business requirements of various industry sectors. They have a well-established track record in personally guiding companies and individuals based on their specific needs for doing business in India. A&A has been able to achieve this by adopting the highest standards of professionalism implemented by the top international law firms, which has been the primary reason for putting their clients at ease and ensuring smooth entry and operations for their clients’ business. The partners are confident in their ability to provide accurate and sustainable cross borders advise. The firm takes pride in identifying the clients’ requirements and working along with clients to help them achieve their goals. Continue Reading

Posted in Future of the Law Firm, Law Firm Client Service, Law Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility for Law Firms: Understanding the Global Movement

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 20, 2019

This fall, ILN members will have the good fortune to participate in a webinar with Pamela Cone, founder and CEO of Amity Advisory. Pam is speaking on the global movement behind corporate social responsibility and sustainability for law firms, and why firms should care, and in advance of that, I’ll be sharing some guest posts with you that may aid in your own efforts.

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The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The Goals interconnect and in order to leave no one behind, it ís important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030.” (www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/)

The world is changing and so is the way we must do business. Continue Reading

Posted in Firm of the Month

ILN Firm of the Month – Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law, Taiwan!

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 15, 2019

The ILN is proud to announce our latest firm of the month, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law, Taiwan!

Lee and Li is the largest full-service law firm in Taiwan, with its main office in Taipei and several branch offices/affiliated firms in other cities of Taiwan, Shanghai and Beijing. They maintain a strong international and domestic client base across an expansive range of industry sectors, from financial services to healthcare. They display a growing strength in cross-border work and have an impressive client roster that includes household names in the technology and automotive industries.

Posted in Law Firms, Leadership, Legal Marketing, Social Media

Lawyers: What’s the One Thing that Makes Clients Care About Your Content?

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 13, 2019

Recently, Greentarget and Zeughauser Group released their annual results for the 2019 State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey. I had the chance to chat with Greentarget President and Founding Partner, John Corey, about the results, which had some actionable findings for lawyers and law firms, as well as a few surprises.

First, the report – Corey notes that they work to take it somewhere new each year, and their six months of hard work are obvious. In addition to the report’s results this year, you also get access to some excellent thought leadership pieces that expand on the ideas revealed by the data. The data itself examines three categories of respondents – general counsel, the C-suite, and law firm CMOs, which gives a full and interesting picture of what your firm clients are looking for at various levels, and whether your firm may be correctly addressing these needs. Continue Reading

Posted in Rainmaking Recommendations

Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: Recommendations, Reviews, and Testimonials (Part 1): What’s the difference?

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 8, 2019

In today’s guest post from Jaimie Field, she’s talking about the difference between reviews and testimonials, as part of a three part series that you’ll definitely want to tune in for.

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Testimonials, reviews, recommendations – these have always been important to growing your book of business, but it is now even more so. In this three-part Rainmaking Recommendation series, I will detail the differences between a testimonial, a review, and recommendations (part 1). In part 2, I will discuss how to obtain these important evaluations of your services on a regular basis. And in part 3, I will write about how to deal with bad reviews. Continue Reading

Posted in Relationship Development

Why Does Relationship Marketing Matter to Lawyers?

By Lindsay Griffiths on August 6, 2019

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a podcast with Deirdre Breakenridge for her Women Worldwide series, discussing how to build unbreakable bonds. One of the questions she asked me to think about in advance of the session was “What is relationship marketing, and where do you start when you want to build your business?”

Since we’re in a relationship business, I’d hope that most lawyers reading this would be comfortable with the idea of engaging in relationship marketing, and how to translate that into business for your practice. But in case you’re not (or in case you want to put a more formal name to something you’re already doing in your practice), let’s talk about what it is, and how to use it. Continue Reading

Posted in Future of the Law Firm, Law Firm Client Service, Leadership, Relationship Development

Overcoming the Barriers to Collaboration

By Lindsay Griffiths on July 31, 2019

While being interviewed for a podcast yesterday morning, the host asked me what I saw as the primary trend for the future of law firms. Although my answer is simple, the work behind it is not – collaboration.

We’ve talked about Heidi Gardner’s book, Smart Collaboration, before (and I again highly recommend reading it). One of the things Gardner addresses in the book is the barriers to collaboration. I’m sure many of these will be familiar to you, and that she’s so adept at identifying them should give you comfort that she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to why collaboration is so essential and useful to law firms and lawyers. Let’s examine a few of these, and how you may overcome them within your own firms or law firm networks to achieve better collaborative results. Continue Reading

Posted in Law Firms

Why Onboarding is Good for Your Law Firm

By Lindsay Griffiths on July 25, 2019

Today, I’m bringing you a guest post from Dina Eisenberg, lawyer turned award-winning entrepreneur and Founder of OutsourceEasier.com. She’s talking about a law practice management topic that doesn’t get much attention – onboarding new lawyers to your firm. We tend to think long and hard about what it means to bring in a lateral, and do an extensive amount of work to bring them in, but what happens once they arrive? Do you have the right systems in place to bring them up to speed and ensure their success? What about associates, or other law firm professionals? See what Dina has to say.

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Would you give someone a driving manual then expect that person to know how to drive a car?

The answer is probably not, yet many lawyers give their new hire an employee manual, ask them to read and sign it and call that onboarding. Continue Reading

Posted in Rainmaking Recommendations

Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: It’s Not Rocket Science

By Lindsay Griffiths on July 18, 2019

Are you stuck thinking that business development is too big of a hurdle? Read today’s guest post from rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, to find out why it’s not rocket science.

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On Saturday, July 20, 2019, we will celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Think about this for a moment. 50 years ago, technology was rudimentary comparatively speaking to today’s tech (and even tomorrow’s tech). Yet, they were able to land a man on the moon. Continue Reading

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