American Bar Association members receive free continuing legal education credits through the monthly CLE Premier Speaker Series. Sponsored by the ABA and the Center for Professional Development, thousands of attorneys participate in each month’s complimentary webinar program. It is a tremendous honor to have my program, Lawyer Rankings and Ratings: The Impact on Ethics and […]
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Buchdahl to present Ethics CLE on Building a Book of Business at ABA Annual Meeting
If you are attending the upcoming ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, you are welcome to attend this complimentary continuing legal education program being put on by the ABA Young Lawyers Division, at the Palace Hotel (Presidio, Second Floor) on Friday, August 9, 2013 from 11 am-noon PT. For more information, click here, or […]
PBI Ethics Program – A Baker’s Dozen of Hot Topics in Law Marketing & Advertising Ethics
For more than a decade, I’ve provided the Pennsylvania Bar Institute with an annual ethics program on a law marketing or advertising topic. Over the years I’ve focused on a different theme each year–starting with Internet marketing ethics in the late 90s to years where I’ve focused on Supreme Court cases, social media, rankings & […]
WMT: Law Firm Websites – Ethics and Compliance Issues
In my monthly column on internet marketing for lawyers in Web Marketing Today, I tackle the sticky issue of ethics and compliance for law firm websites. If you had told me when I started teaching ethics CLEs on this subject in 1997 that I’d be this well-versed on the subject–and it would become a niche […]
PBI CLE — Lawyer Rankings & Ratings: The Impact on Ethics and the Profession
If you are a PA lawyer, and it feels like you’ve been hearing me deliver marketing ethics CLE hours for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for more than a decade now, it is because you have. My very first ethics CLE ever was given in Philly, New York and Houston in the summer of 1997. I […]
Friday, Februry 19, 2010–CLE with the Sixers: Lawyer Online Marketing Ethics – Dos and Don’ts of Advertising Your Law Practice in a Web 2.0 World
What better place to repeat the ever-popular “online marketing ethics” course for lawyers than in my old stomping grounds, before a Sixers game at the Wachovia Center…where I was an in-house attorney back in the day. This new PBI program includes an hour of ethics CLE and a Sixers game against the San Antonia Spurs. […]
Super Lawyer’s Kryptonite — NJ Ethics Opinion
In a summer where Superman Returns, it is Super Lawyer getting hit by kryptonite, thanks to the recent ethics opinion from my resident state of New Jersey. As many of my readers know, I speak at law firms on a weekly basis regarding marketing ethics (usually as in-house CLEs and at retreats). This morning, I […]
Ask The MAM — CLE Ethics Programs
Dear MAM: I recently caught your marketing ethics program in Pittsburgh. And it was excellent. Do you have a list of where your programs take place? Sincerely yours, H.L., Pittsburgh, PA Dear HL: Obviously, I was going to answer this totally self-serving letter. You are correct. My programs are excellent, and I’m often a delight. […]
Pennsylvania “Ethics 2000” Adoption Takes Effect January 1
Pennsylvania’s adoption of the ABA Model Rules Ethics 2000 initiative will take effect January 1, 2005. Changes to those tricky 7.– rules regarding advertising and marketing, as well as solicitation are included. Contact the Marketing Attorney if you wish to obtain an article reviewing the changes, as they effect business development. The new rules are […]
LP Magazine — The Morgan & Morgan Effect
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 issue of Law Practice, entitled, of course, The Morgan & Morgan […]