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Upgrade Your LinkedIn Headline

Hi, it’s Allison shields Johs from Legal Ease Consulting and today what I’d like to talk about is your Headline on LinkedIn. I find a lot of lawyers make mistakes when they put together their LinkedIn Profile, particularly with respect to the headline. The headline is the line that appears directly below your name on …

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LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn Groups Gets an Update

I’ve long been an advocate of LinkedIn Groups as a business development tool, but, especially with the previous round of changes that separated Groups into a stand-alone app, many lawyers didn’t take advantage of Groups. This month, LinkedIn announced it’s making some changes to its Groups feature in both the website and mobile app that …

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Expand Your LinkedIn Network with Legal Ease Consulting

[Infographic] Six Ways to Jumpstart Your LinkedIn Network

Is your LinkedIn network working for you? In 2016, Dennis Kennedy, my co-author on LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers, and I wrote a two-part post on LinkedIn about how lawyers can reinvigorate their LinkedIn networks. That post was subsequently combined into one post on Law Technology Today. As we say in the article, it’s usually …

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LinkedIn Updates and Changes Every Lawyer Should Know

LinkedIn has been busy making even more changes to its platform lately. Here’s a summary of some of the changes and updates you should know about: Skills and Endorsements LinkedIn’s previously named “Skills and Expertise” section has been re-named “Skills and Endorsements” in part due to feedback LinkedIn received from lawyers who advised that many …

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Three steps to using LinkedIn

Three Steps to Using LinkedIn [infographic]

If you’re not a regular LinkedIn user, you may be wondering what it’s all about or where to start. This infographic was developed as a quick overview of three of the steps you need to take to build your LinkedIn presence. All of these steps are covered in more detail in the recently released Second …

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Who’s Using Social Media?

Lawyers ask me all of the time whether they should get involved in social media platforms, and whether those platforms really do anything to help them build their practices or attract potential clients and referral sources. When answering this question (or similar questions about any particular marketing endeavor), I encourage lawyers to first determine two …

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