LPT: The Niche Marketing Issue
In a world where every law firm is (or says) they are “full-service,” comes this issue of Law Practice Today dedicated to niche practice marketing. Depending on your firm, practice and related industries, a niche can be many things to many people—with no real right or wrong answers…so begins the intro to my article on The Pros and Cons of Niche Practice Marketing in the November 2017 edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Today (LPT) webzine.
As a member of LPT’s Board of Editors, past Editor-In-Chief and past chair of the ABA Law Practice Division, I’ve long-enjoyed seeing the growth of the law practice webzine—which is delivered in the inbox of every ABA member (that opts into e-mail) and numerous syndicated bar association partners throughout the country, giving it the largest circulation of any online law practice resource in the U.S. I had the pleasure of serving as issue editor for the niche practice issue, with my colleagues Editor-In-Chief Andrea Malone of White & Williams in Philadelphia and Associate Editor Amy Drushal at Trenam Law in Tampa, Florida.
It is unusual for me to contribute two pieces to an issue, but I had to add a sidebar on How Niche Marketing Helped Me Escape an Arizona Traffic Jam as well. It goes hand-in-hand with an interesting article on When Photo Radar is Worse Than DUI by my (now) favorite firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. You’ll learn about the niche at R&R Law Group, along with how solid marketing efforts brought this educated consumer (that would be me) to their practice for counsel. Spoiler alert—they were 100% successful in their representation of the client.
Among the other interesting features in LPT is Taking the Leap and Starting a Cannabis Practice, authored by an excellent niche practice builder in Alva Mather at Pepper Hamilton. I’ve never inhaled myself, but lots of people do—now legally—in a booming area of practice. Attorney Nick Gaffney of Zumado PR conveys another fantastic roundtable discussion with What Lawyers Considering Specialization Need to Know. And Sherrie Boutwell writes on Be the Missing Piece: Marketing Your Niche Law Practice. When you are done reading this issue, you should be well-versed in the best practices of marketing (or starting) a successful niche practice at your law firm.