On June 11, 2025, I will be speaking again for the Attorney Protective CLE webinar series, on Brick and Mortar No More: Ethical Issues with Multi-Jurisdictional Lawyering. Last year, more than 2,000 attorneys attended my AttPro program focused on marketing ethics issues, so I’ll “run it back” to delve deeper…
In the January 20, 2025, episode of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Podcast, host Terrell Turner discusses the complexities of legal marketing with me in this 30-minute discussion available on americanbar.org as well as in your favorite podcast library, including Spotify and Apple. Micah Buchdahl, who concentrates his practice…
In once again serving as the issue editor for the Ethics-themed December 2024 edition of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Today webzine, I contributed an article addressing recent changes to the Rules of Professional Conduct in Pennsylvania, and related ethics opinions, addressing texting in two different ways—ways where texting…
A few months ago, I was asked to provide the ethics attorney perspective for a Legal Marketing Association (LMA) program, AI for Communications and PR: What You Need to Know Now. At that point, I had not put a lot of thought into the ethical considerations. As with most business…
Phillies Scoreboard at Citizens Bank Park Sometimes the subject matter for my marketing column just hits me…like when I’m driving down I-95 in Philadelphia and see one law firm billboard after another, after another, after another. It’s the Morgan & Morgan Effect—and I write about it in the January/February 2024…
SNL’s Point-Counterpoint Perhaps, I’ve never (co) authored an article with a smaller potential audience than the great give-and-take on the bandied-about subject of Model Rule 5.5 under the Rules of Professional Conduct. In the November 2022 edition of the American Bar Association’s online webzine, Law Practice Today (LPT), together with…
Marketing Column In the November/December 2022 marketing column in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Magazine, Marketing Ethics Compliance Continues to Confound, I combine a number of business development topics into one. When writing my column, I often start by thinking about what “hot” areas I’m working on at the…
ABA’s Law Practice Today Webzine Over my 25+ years of working with law firms on business development, addressing the issue of law firm names is not really one of my favorites—because it rarely comes without some painful internal issues to address. There are the firms that want to drop the…
In the June/July 2020 issue of the ABA Journal, Cynthia Sharp asks me about how attorneys can best respond to negative online reviews in “Trashed by Clients Online? Ethically responding to negative reviews,” a subject that I’ve discussed with many attorneys and clients over the years. It is probably the…
ABA’s Law Practice Today Webzine Being super-active in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division means collaboration is a necessity. So in the November 2019 edition of Law Practice Today (LPT), I get to combine my role as Associate Editor of the webzine with my participation in the Ethics &…