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Enhance Your Law Firm’s Online Presence with LinkedIn Company Pages

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Social media has become a social norm. According to Statista there are over 5 billion social media users. In 2023 alone, users spent 151 minutes on average on social media on a daily basis, nearly 2.5 hours of time scrolling...more

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Implement These Strategies To Outsmart The LinkedIn Algorithm

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You already know that LinkedIn is a critical platform for making connections and building your professional reputation as a lawyer in the online world. So you should look to set yourself apart as a thought leader by sharing...more

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Ask Me Anything - Writing Marketing Content

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Content takes a lot of forms. Blogs. Emails. Social media posts. Press releases. News items. Attorney bios. And so much more. But where to start?...more

Good2bSocial

20 Ways to Accelerate Business Development for Lawyers

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The business world today is hyper-focused on digital connectedness, particularly during the pandemic. Lawyers are traditionally reliant on in-person business development, networking, and word-of-mouth. However, the days of...more

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A Guide to Marketing for Small Law Firms

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Marketing can look different based on the size of the law firm. The unfortunate truth is that big law firms have much more time, resources, and experience to market in significant ways. That doesn’t mean that small firms...more

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Updated for 2022: 15 Steps for Spring Cleaning Your Law Firm’s Website

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Finally, it’s spring! The light of day lingers past dinnertime. The sweet smell of flower blossoms float in the warm air through windows, now open. I cringe at the thought of all the dust and dirt drifting into my house and...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

2020 Update: Can your social media (e.g., LinkedIn) contacts be your employer’s trade secret?

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Employers and employees alike use social media to promote and define their businesses and themselves in the digital space. From personal connections on Facebook, to professional marketing on LinkedIn, these connections on...more

Payne & Fears

Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

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For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

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Privacy Tip #125 – Check + Set LinkedIn Privacy Settings

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It is well known that hackers and fraudsters surf Facebook to find individuals who have not protected their information through Facebook’s privacy settings. People put a lot of information on Facebook that is very personal...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

In-House Counsel: How to Avoid Missteps in the Social Media Minefield

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While social media has become ubiquitous, attorneys are subject to particular restrictions online. During Ward and Smith’s 2017 In-House Counsel Seminar two attorneys reviewed some of the potential pitfalls in-house counsel...more

Knapp Marketing

Five Lessons from a Social Media Survey of In-House Counsel

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Just before Thanksgiving, Greentarget and Zeughauser Group released their 5th annual State of Digital and Content Marketing report. This year’s survey included responses from 181 in-house counsel (IHC) about their use of...more

Baker Donelson

Social Media Compliance Policies: Your Company Needs One

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Use of social media is ubiquitous in today's society. This is astounding when you think back to 2004 and realize that social media did not exist then. Fast forward ten years and by September 2014, 58% of all American adults...more

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Social Media Brings the Right of Publicity to the Masses

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Do you consider yourself famous? If the answer is no, then you have likely never been concerned with the invasion of your right of publicity. The right of publicity is the right of a person in his or her identity—name or...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Social Media Week Part V – Tools and Apps for the Compliance Practitioner

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To conclude this week’s posts, I wanted to list some of the more prevalent social media tools, explain what they are and how you might use them in a compliance program. (As usual I got carried away so this series will...more

Allen Matkins

Magistrate Judge Rules LinkedIn’s “Reference Search” Does Not Violate Fair Credit Reporting Act

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As we discussed in a previous post, a class action lawsuit (Sweet, et al. v. LinkedIn) was filed last year against LinkedIn in California based on allegations that the reference reports LinkedIn generates for premium...more

Lewitt Hackman

Claims Dismissed: Social Media Site's Reference Search Not a Background Check

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Good news for employers using social media to vet job applicants: A Federal District Court recently ruled the technology used in LinkedIn's Reference Search does not constitute a “consumer background check” of employees and...more

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Gawker Interns and the Use of Social Media to Notify Potential Class Members

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Social media has dramatically impacted many areas of law, and class and collective action litigation is no exception. Recently, a number of former interns who sued Gawker Media LLC and its owner Nick Denton (Gawker) for wage...more

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Can your social media contacts be a trade secret of your employer? Maybe.

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This is a relatively new legal subject, so there isn’t much law out there.  In December, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal court answered this question in the negative.  In the case of Eagle v. Morgan, Linda Eagle, the founder of...more

McAfee & Taft

Secret Connections: LinkedIn contacts may be a trade secret

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A California court recently determined that an employee’s LinkedIn contacts could be considered a “trade secret” in a case where the employee retained his contacts after he left the company and began a competing venture....more

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Social Media and Non-Solicitation Covenants – Another LinkedIn Cautionary Tale, but this One for Employers

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Those of you who joined us for our November 13 webinar on “Post-Employment Solicitation of Customers & Employees in the Social Media Age” will be interested in a recent social media-related non-solicitation case from...more

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