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"Electronic Business Cards for Law Firms"

This post was written by Mister Thorne: "You join a new law firm, and a few days later, they arrive: your brand new business cards. You open the box they came in, withdraw one card, and study it. And then you discover an error!

A mild case of excitement becomes a small disappointment.

This is an error that MUST BE FIXED!

You are not going to hand out business cards with your name misspelled. Who would?

Attorneys should apply the same sort of reasoning to their firms' web sites -- those electronic billboards posted along the information super highway. And every attorney, I say, should examine his bio. An error there could be just as intolerable as an error on a business card.

Note: I am still tracking an attorney whose bio (for the past three years) claims he graduated from Hardvard. What does that say of the attorney?

There are others who serve attorneys, and one of them should make sure his firm's web site is working OK.

Here are a few things you (if you're the one responsible for such things) should do regularly:..."

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Source: Set in Style, 6 July 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.  

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).