A Proactive Plan for Award Nominations

January 4, 2021
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The legal industry offers a dizzying array of awards that recognize the achievements of individual attorneys, practice groups and firms. Some highlight precocious attorneys (40 Under 40 awards). Some praise attorneys or groups who won high-profile cases or closed high-value deals. And some recognize key leaders whose efforts are making law firms more equitable and inclusive places to build careers.

As a law firm marketer, you...

The PESO Model: Putting the Four Types of Media to Work for Business Development

December 30, 2020
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As 2021 promises to bring an even more challenging media landscape for legal marketing leaders to work with, now might be a good time for your team to familiarize itself with Gini Dietrich’s innovative PESO Model for integrated marketing and PR.

In legal PR and media relations, times have changed — there’s no getting around it. The number of reporters and news outlets

Leading Your Managers, or Managing Your Leaders?

December 14, 2020
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Are you a manager or a leader? According to the conventional binary embraced by businesses (and business consultants), leaders are visionary empaths who don’t sweat the small stuff, while managers myopically prize the status quo and micromanage everyone to death.

Unsurprisingly, few people would aspire to become a manager under this definition. (And, incidentally, some of them might notice how the manager’s traits are freighted...