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23 October 2014 / Lena Ahad
Categories: Features , Profession , Marketing
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Building your brand

Lena Ahad explains how to market legal services more effectively in a digital world

All too often organisations use external communications as a tactical, promotional tool. In most cases, this is prompted by a desire to tell the world about the latest client win or promote a new office opening in region X. Although this type of external communication is important to demonstrate business momentum and growth, PR and marketing disciplines can now be far more strategic when applied skilfully by an experienced practitioner. 

What’s changed? Social media. Love it or loathe it, it’s here to stay. In the business world, LinkedIn and Twitter are the dominant platforms for sharing news, opinions and educational content. Social media provides greater transparency between businesses and their customers. And from a communications strategy, it’s a great way to interest and engage your audience.

Content is king

Content development for PR purposes is not the same as developing sales collateral, yet this is a mistake many organisations make. Sales content needs to be clear and concise,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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