When it debuted, LinkedIn was a free online service focused upon helping employers and employees: members could search the site to find new jobs or new hires. LinkedIn was smart to change with the times, and not limit itself to a job search site.
Today, LinkedIn is more of a professional networking service. Most larger law firms and legal professionals are likely to have a LinkedIn membership.
On LinkedIn, professionals “connect” with each other and the LinkedIn service then notifies its members of those who may know each other – or have connections with friends of friends. You link with an old friend from law school, and suddenly, you are given lots of potential "connections" through that friend's network of contacts. LinkedIn afficianados can have 500-1000 connections.
LinkedIn information such as Specialties, New Hires, Firm Size, Firm Revenue, and individual resume pages of firm partners and associates are provided for marketing purposes via Linked In.
Examples of law firms currently on LinkedIn:
Baker & McKenzie
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/baker-&-mckenzie
Clifford Chance
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/clifford-chance?trk=co_search_results&goback=%2Ecps_1269812930126_2
Holland & Knight
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/holland-%26-knight-llp?trk=co_search_results&goback=%2Ecps_1269812930126_1
Jones Day
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/jones-day?trk=co_search_results&goback=%2Ecps_1269812930126_2
WilmerHale
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/wilmerhale?trk=co_search_results&goback=%2Ecps_1269812930126_1
For more information:
Web 2.0 for Lawyers: What is "Social Media" for Law Firms and Why Bother?
Facebook and Divorce: the new AAML Study and the Need to Know Client Web Chatter
Attorneys Take Note: Major Corporations Pay People Just to Tweet
Twitter for Biz Pros: The Debut of ExecTweets
Attorneys Take Note: Yesterday's Reputation is Today's Personal Brand
7/6/10
7/5/10
Jackson Walker on Twitter: Example of How Law Firms Build Reputations via the Web
The internationally known law firm Jackson Walker has been aggressive in building its Twitter presence. By entering the game early, Jackson Walker was able to create separate Twitter accounts for each of its practice areas, using topic headings for the Twitter names.
Brilliant.
Now, anyone looking on Twitter for things like “ERISA” or “First Amendment” will quickly come across the Twitter feeds of Jackson Walker.
Currently, Jackson Walker is tweeting as follows:
Jackson Walker (News about the firm)
• http://twitter.com/Jackson_Walker
JW Law (Legal updates in all categories)
• http://twitter.com/JW_Law
Corporate Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_CorporateLaw
Energy Law
• http://twitter.com/Energy_Law
Entertainment Law
• http://twitter.com/entertainlaw
Environmental Law
• http://twitter.com/Enviro_Law
ERISA
• http://twitter.com/ERISA
Financial Recovery Solutions
• http://twitter.com/FinanceRecovery
First Amendment
• http://twitter.com/FirstAmendment
Health Care Law
• http://twitter.com/HealthCareLaw
HIPAA
• http://twitter.com/HIPPA
Intellectual Property Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_IPLaw
International Law
• http://twitter.com/InternationLaw
Labor and Employment Law
• http://twitter.com/LaborLaw
Litigation Alerts
• http://twitter.com/LitigationAlert
Media Law
• http://twitter.com/Media_Law
Real Estate Law
• http://twitter.com/RealEstate_Law
Tax Law
• http://twitter.com/Tax_Law
Technology Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_Technology
Wealth Planning
• http://twitter.com/Wealth_Planning
JacksonWalker tweets within these separate Twitter accounts with bits of information pertaining to that topic, focusing upon educating or informing others. Check it out.
For more information:
Web 2.0 for Lawyers: What is "Social Media" for Law Firms and Why Bother?
Facebook and Divorce: the new AAML Study and the Need to Know Client Web Chatter
Attorneys Take Note: Major Corporations Pay People Just to Tweet
Twitter for Biz Pros: The Debut of ExecTweets
Attorneys Take Note: Yesterday's Reputation is Today's Personal Brand
Brilliant.
Now, anyone looking on Twitter for things like “ERISA” or “First Amendment” will quickly come across the Twitter feeds of Jackson Walker.
Currently, Jackson Walker is tweeting as follows:
Jackson Walker (News about the firm)
• http://twitter.com/Jackson_Walker
JW Law (Legal updates in all categories)
• http://twitter.com/JW_Law
Corporate Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_CorporateLaw
Energy Law
• http://twitter.com/Energy_Law
Entertainment Law
• http://twitter.com/entertainlaw
Environmental Law
• http://twitter.com/Enviro_Law
ERISA
• http://twitter.com/ERISA
Financial Recovery Solutions
• http://twitter.com/FinanceRecovery
First Amendment
• http://twitter.com/FirstAmendment
Health Care Law
• http://twitter.com/HealthCareLaw
HIPAA
• http://twitter.com/HIPPA
Intellectual Property Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_IPLaw
International Law
• http://twitter.com/InternationLaw
Labor and Employment Law
• http://twitter.com/LaborLaw
Litigation Alerts
• http://twitter.com/LitigationAlert
Media Law
• http://twitter.com/Media_Law
Real Estate Law
• http://twitter.com/RealEstate_Law
Tax Law
• http://twitter.com/Tax_Law
Technology Law
• http://twitter.com/JW_Technology
Wealth Planning
• http://twitter.com/Wealth_Planning
JacksonWalker tweets within these separate Twitter accounts with bits of information pertaining to that topic, focusing upon educating or informing others. Check it out.
For more information:
Web 2.0 for Lawyers: What is "Social Media" for Law Firms and Why Bother?
Facebook and Divorce: the new AAML Study and the Need to Know Client Web Chatter
Attorneys Take Note: Major Corporations Pay People Just to Tweet
Twitter for Biz Pros: The Debut of ExecTweets
Attorneys Take Note: Yesterday's Reputation is Today's Personal Brand
7/4/10
The Declaration of Independence: Full Text - Happy 4th of July!
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. (continues after "read more")
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. (continues after "read more")
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