The Sociable Lawyer is excited to announce that tonight we’ll be hosting our second networking event in Texas this year at Spencer’s Lounge in at the Houston Hilton! If you are a Houston-based attorney or in town for the Texas State Bar Annual Meeting we hope you’ll stop by to take advantage of a great…
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RSS feed for this sectionJoin us in Phoenix for a Great Sociable Lawyer Event!
You might have noticed that our team has been getting around a lot this year. Indeed, we had a great time hosting Sociable Lawyer networking events for attorneys twice in San Francisco this year, once in Houston, in Austin during SXSW, and recently during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. Each of our events have…
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Come Join Us For The Sociable Lawyer Houston Premier Event!
Follow Up to The Sociable Lawyer Meetup at House of Shields
There is no question that social media provides incredible opportunities for tech-savvy attorneys who want to expand their reputation and professional network. Using Twitter and Facebook you can meet, interact, and communicate with colleagues and potential clients across the globe from your home or office. And although we believe strongly in the value of those…
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Event Networking Tips for Attorneys
In a recent post I stated that in order to become a “rainmaker” you need to develop relationships with both your colleagues and potential clients through networking. This isn’t a particularly controversial idea or original concept. Savvy lawyers have always understood the value of making personal relationships in developing a book of business. There are two primary…
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How to Become a Rainmaker
For those of us in the legal industry, being a rainmaker is the ultimate in career security. If you have a strong book of business, you’ll never have to worry about having a job. I’ve personally seen law firms where the partners’ salaries were cut, nearly across the board, with the sole exceptions of those…
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The Rocket Lawyer Food Truck Experiment
Last week, Rocket Lawyer “on tour” took Chicago’s ABATechshow by storm with a part crowdsourcing, part business brainstorm, part artistic, Food Truck Experiment. On the opening night of the techshow-come-conference, we challenged 200 lawyers to collectively guess the weight of one of our favorite trucks — “Curry up Now,” and then, together in groups, to…
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Create Your Perfect Career In The Legal Industry
Regardless of the truth of the statement, it’s become almost cliche to suggest that most attorneys hate their jobs. Of course, I suspect that the number of people in the legal industry who dislike their job is no different than the numbers in any other industry. And I’d further venture to guess that most attorneys…
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Developing Your Niche Market Slowly But Surely
We recently discussed how you can develop your own niche market for your practice. Developing a niche market can be overwhelming, especially if you are practicing a new area of law. Now that you have determined and assessed your niche market, here are some tips to help you determine how do you can go about offering…
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Homeless Hotspots, Social Mobile, and Who Wins During the Great Recession — This Week in Small Business
A while back, I was lucky enough to attend South by Southwest, and that week’s long arbiter of What’s Cool in Every Industry is still chugging along in Austin, Texas right now. I saw some fantastic music, met some great folks, and drank some free beer. But the big thing I remember was that some…
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Use LinkedIn’s Signal Feature to Get More Out of Your LinkedIn Account
LinkedIn recently added a fantastic new feature to their site that can radically change the way you consume the information in your social media stream. The feature is called “LinkedIn Signal” and it provides you with a way to filter the information you can view in your stream. If this doesn’t sound very exciting yet,…
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