Welcome to GAL Radio. My name is Attorney Enrico Schaefer, and today we’re going to talk about something that’s really important to lawyers and law firms alike. How do you sign up your clients?
Keep in mind that the industrial age model for signing up clients was to get them on the phone or in a conference room, have a lawyer or lawyers sitting there. Those lawyers would then impress the client that they knew more than the client about some legal issue. Of course, before the internet, the client’s chance of knowing anything about their legal issue was fairly limited.
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I’m a big fan of Seth Godin’s blog found at sethgodin.typepad.com. Seth talks in this post about an unreasonable customer and the reasons why you should consider firing a customer or, if you happen to be a lawyer or law firm, a client. Here’s his list:
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Welcome to GAL Radio. Today, we’re talking about reputation management in the internet space. There’s a lot of stuff that goes on on the internet. There are review sites such as Yelp and Google Places. Your Google Places’ page has a place for people to post a review of your services. For lawyers, there is AVVO and a host of other rating services. One thing that has caught my attention the last couple of days is the reputation issues that are being faced by Herman Cain, who, as we all know, is facing any number of accusers on sexual harassment, and Joe Paterno over at Penn State, as a result of his alleged failure to do more when he became aware of an assistant coach’s alleged abuse of a child in the locker room. All of this got me thinking about something that we do at our law firm every single day, which is online defamation/ internet defamation claims and defense on behalf of people who are looking at a Google search result that they don’t like, on the plaintiff’s side, or they have been accused of internet defamation in a defamation threat letter from an attorney.
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Don’t get me wrong. I love technology. And I adore the internet. As a lawyer specializing in internet law and technology issues, it is hard for me to complain about anything related to technology. Our law firm thrives on the growth and innovation that is occurring online.
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