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Round Table Group is a Premier Sponsor of the ABA Litigation Section. On this Litigation Radio episode, we will hear from Dan Rubin, National Business Development Manager of Round Table Group, about using third parties in expert searches. The selection of the Round Table Group as the subject of this interview should not be construed as an endorsement by the American Bar Association of the Round Table Group and its services.-----Expert witnesses can play a pivotal role in litigation, offering insights and testimony that can make or break a case. But where do you find them, and how do you ensure it’s the right one? Guests Genevieve M. Sauter of Noonan Lance Boyer & Banach LLP, and Dan Rubin, national business development manager for the expert witness search and referral firm Round Table Group, share their insights on locating and presenting the right experts. What are litigators looking for when they select an expert witness? Decades of experience? Advanced degrees? Sure. But also important are intangibles such as geographic location, experience, relatability, manner, and presentation skills. Hear how attorneys search for, test, and select the best experts to match each case. If your case depends on not just expertise, but also how well a jury and judge will understand that expertise, you must dedicate time to the crucial stage of selecting the right expert. Best practices, fees, contracts, discovery, and preparation. It’s all in this episode. Every step will make the difference between winning your case and missing the mark.Resources:Previous episode, “You Need An Expert Witness, But Where Do You Find One?” The Round Table GroupNoonan Lance Boyer & BanachABA Pretrial, Practice & Discovery CommitteeAmerican Bar AssociationAmerican Bar Association Litigation Section Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we welcome email marketing consultant and copywriter Tanya Brody to discuss how law firms can utilize email marketing to attract and retain clients. Tanya shares insights on common email marketing mistakes made by lawyers, such as targeting the wrong audience, overemphasizing credentials, and using overly sophisticated language that can alienate potential clients. She emphasizes the importance of creating lead magnets tailored to address clients' immediate needs and outlines a strategic email funnel from awareness to repurchase. Tanya also highlights the necessity of compliance with email marketing laws to avoid blacklisting issues. Tanya Brody is an email marketing consultant and evangelist. The "Hill She Will Die On" is that every business needs an email list, regardless of size, industry, product, or service. Email is hands-down the best way to stay in touch with genuinely interested potential customers and current customers. It also has the highest ROI of any marketing channel, at 4400%. Tanya helps her clients and her students build a relationship with their subscribers and use that relationship to convert those subscribers into happy, loyal, paying customers.Tanya gives listeners actionable tips on: 00:00 Intro 01:19 Common Mistakes Lawyers Make in Marketing 01:54 The Importance of Knowing Your Audience 03:33 Simplifying Legal Jargon for Better Client Communication 05:33 Email Marketing: A Tool for Client Retention and Acquisition 08:06 Nurturing Clients Through the Marketing Funnel 18:05 Leveraging Lead Magnets for Law Firms 25:41 Navigating Email Overwhelm: A Strategic Approach 26:32 Crafting the Perfect Welcome Sequence 27:36 The Art of Email Sequencing for Engagement 28:34 Why Law Firms Struggle with Email Campaigns 29:25 The Importance of Delegating Email Marketing 33:06 Compliance and Email Marketing: Navigating the Legalities 39:27 Book Recommendation 42:31 One thing that works Resources mentioned in this episode:Invisible Selling Machine by Ryan DeissConnect with Tanya here: https://www.instagram.com/tbcopywriter42/ https://twitter.com/harpchicwriter https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyabrody/ https://www.facebook.com/tanyabrodycopywriter http://tanyabrodycopywriter.com https://linktr.ee/emcacademy Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a new iPad on the market… Do lawyers need it? New, shiny tech is always a temptation for Dennis and Tom, and right now they’re mulling over this latest Apple offering and whether its potential uses for attorneys make it worth the investment. They discuss reviews, new upgrades, uses in legal practice, laptop/phone/tablet comparisons, and more. In their second segment, Chat GPT asks the guys: Will they use AI to write a new intro to the podcast? Well, Suno, a new tool, might just be the thing for the job. As always, stay tuned for the parting shots, that one tip, website, or observation that you can use the second the podcast ends.Have a technology question for Dennis and Tom? Call their Tech Question Hotline at 720-441-6820 for the answers to your most burning tech questions.Show Notes - Kennedy-Mighell Report #366A Segment: Is there a New iPad in your Legal Toolbox? Apple iPad: https://www.apple.com/ipad/ Apple Pencil: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/  Magic Keyboard: https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/  Why Lawyers will love the new 2024 iPads: https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2024/05/2024-ipad.html In The News Episode #146: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4UEa6NNUIw&ab_channel=IntheNews  Humane: https://humane.com/  rabbit r1: https://www.rabbit.tech/  B Segment: We Answer a Question from our ChatGPT AudienceSuno - https://suno.com/ Parting Shots: Wired Mouses/Keyboards Experimenting with ChatGPT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s talk about alternative medicine and coverage under Workers’ Comp’s hodgepodge of rules. Guest Maya Rashid is a recent graduate of Penn State Law and the winner of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers’ student writing competition with her article “Revitalizing Recovery: Exploring Workers’ Compensation Coverage of Alternative Medicine.”Fighting for clients seeking treatment through alternative medicine under Workers’ Comp? Even traditional medicine can get tangled in case law and treatments, but when it comes to alternative medicines, where do you, and your clients, stand?It’s a confusing issue, trying to figure out how injured workers can choose their own care and recovery path versus what insurers and jurisdictions determine is “reasonable.” The word “reasonable” varies across jurisdictions. Not to mention the confusion of medical bill coding. If you, and your clients, are confused, you aren’t alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new survey finds that clients care deeply about their attorney’s tech tools and tech skills. The numbers don’t lie: Legal tech matters. An efficient, integrated system is no longer “nice to have.” It’s table stakes, from case management to client communications to online filing and billing. As a lawyer, guest Dan Lear found himself gravitating to the field of legal tech, including stints at Microsoft and Avvo and now as vice president of partnerships at InfoTrack, helping software developers provide the tech today’s lawyers, and their clients, want. If you’re running your own firm, hear what clients say about their attorney’s tech skills and their expectations and how you can explore and implement the latest tools. And if you’re a law school graduate who has found you aren’t truly attracted to traditional legal work, hear about the fascinating opportunities for lawyers in the field of legal tech development and consulting.Questions or ideas about solo and small practices? Drop us a line at NewSolo@legaltalknetwork.com  Topics: A new survey finds clients care (deeply) about their attorney’s tech and tech skills. And they expect those attorneys to use that tech to efficiently manage their cases Legal tech tools are advancing rapidly. Today’s tools can integrate every facet of a law practice, from case management and scheduling to digitally filing briefs, seamlessly. There are opportunities for law school graduates who don’t want to practice traditional law, instead helping tech firms develop new tools and helping law firms understand and implement those tools.  Mentioned in This Episode:InfoTrack Attorney Competence and the Client ExperiencePrevious episodes featuring guest Dan Lear, On the Road, “Legalweek 2024: The Future State of the Industry” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawyers are pretty good at keeping our guards up—especially when it comes to the hard, messy, personal stuff. So, what happens when we let those guards down and share those stories with one another?  This week, Stephanie tackles that issue and more with Sarah Soucie Eyberg, co-author of the new book Law Moms: Juggling Motherhood, Ambition and Personal Fulfillment. Links from the episode:   Check out Sarah's Book-Law Moms  Lawyerist listeners can get special pricing with Pilot!   If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited yet, get the first chapter right now for free!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An appeal to common sense is denied.-----You might have thought flying a flag upside after January 6 would be the only "Sam Alito w/10 flag" story of the week, but you'd be wrong. The justice followed it up with another flag tied to the riots and got appropriately roasted over it all by Elena Kagan. Biglaw always paid well, but with partners crossing the $20 million compensation barrier, the structure of Biglaw inevitably shifts to accommodate the new normal. And a law school deals with the most avoidable cheating scandal ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Networking is something that comes naturally to some people. But if the idea of talking to strangers makes you break out into a cold sweat, there’s help and hope, says Deb Feder, author of the book After Hello: How to Build a Book of Business, One Conversation at a Time.“You have picked a profession that is never finished meeting people,” Feder writes of lawyers. A practicing lawyer for many years, Feder now works as a business development coach.In this episode of The Modern Law Library, Feder explains to the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles that her goal is to help attorneys have “curious, confident conversations.” They discuss conversation stoppers v. conversation starters; how not to panic when targeting the “cool client”; and how young attorneys can get past “the kids table.”Lining up a roster of ideal clients doesn’t start at cocktail party mingling, Feder warns. A key to building relationships with the clients you actually want to work with lies in identifying what legal work you’re looking to do, and that requires some inner work. It also involves owning your value, Feder says, and she shares a story about how a partner in her firm impressed that lesson on her when she was a young attorney.In After Hello, she says she meets people who feel too overwhelmed by keeping up with their legal work and personal lives to contemplate business development. “How do you balance the chaos of the day and allow technology to be the support and solution, rather than part of the challenge; how do you let it serve, not destroy you?” Feder asks. She lays out strategies to organize and cope, including how to stop letting your email inbox overwhelm you.Feder and Rawles also discuss After Hello’s “30 Conversations in 30 Days Challenge” and the most common mistakes Feder sees lawyers making on LinkedIn." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you are in trial, your support staff can and should be doing more than just ordering lunch. Hear how the Simon Law Firm staff handles logistics and builds valuable rapport with courtroom staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests from a successful St. Louis collaboration discuss Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s (LSEM) Neighborhood Advocacy Program on Talk Justice. There are 24,000 vacancies and abandoned properties in St. Louis. LSEM was inspired by Legal Aid of Western Missouri’s Adopt-a-Neighborhood program in Kansas City to start their own revitalization project. In 2018, they launched the Neighborhood Advocacy Program to start tackling the legal problems that create lingering neighborhood blight.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices