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Stevie Haughey outlines five tips which will help Law Firm Lead Generation

At Moore Legal Technology, we specialise in helping law firms increase their turnover and client base. Put simply, we help our law firm clients leverage the internet to increase the number of profitable, new enquiries. There is a vast number of things you could be doing online to make this happen, however, the following five steps are amongst the quickest and most effective ways you could contribute to your law firm’s success online.

The legal sector continues, in our experience, to lag behind other sectors when it comes to using the Internet effectively from a marketing and business development perspective.

Moore Legal Technology is experiencing continuous growth, so we're hiring yet again - we are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with a passion for digital design.

We were recently invited to attend a meeting in London with a well-respected law firm with a tremendous history of working on high-profile cases that attract widespread media interest. The firm’s reputation in the market in which they operate is well established and the clientele they act for and type of instruction they receive has undoubtedly evolved with the times. There is however one aspect of their business that hasn’t evolved, and with one eye to the future, they contacted us to ask how they could improve their online presence with a view to attracting more clients.

This week, Amazon launched their latest attempt to encroach into every aspect of our lives product, the “Dash” button. These small plastic buttons are designed to take away some of the mundanity of our daily lives. Connected to the internet and your amazon account, these allow you to order replacements or top ups for daily staples like bin bags, fabric softener, coffee or condoms.

As one of the most innovative organisations on the planet, Google improves the way it does things every day. And for our law firm clients to beat their competition online, we need to as well.

Google recently updated its document on local ranking signals. The addition of ‘prominence’ to the document would suggest that businesses which have been focusing on quality SEO work are subsequently more likely to benefit from a boost in local search rankings. In this blog I will elaborate on what this really means and what your firm should be focusing on going forward for great local search rankings.

Have you ever wondered what 'SEO' or 'CTA' actually means? Sometimes, when talking to clients or friends and family we can get carried away with our geeky digital chat. Which is why we have compiled a handy A-Z of some of the most used terms in our day-to-day. We have now published part 1 here which includes terms from A-E. Stay tuned for the rest! If there is any we have missed, just let us know - contact . You can also view all our other digital marketing guides here. 

The recent leak of over 2.6 terabytes of data from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca has highlighted the risks around data security and the need for companies to protect their client’s information wherever it is stored.

Time stands still for no man, so the saying goes. This feels especially true for those of us involved in online marketing for the legal sector. While in my mind I’m still the same fresh faced Kurt Cobain wannabe as the kid in the baggy jumper, as I sit down to write this I suddenly feel rather old (because I am, my colleagues helpfully point out). Incredibly, websites, much like this photograph, have been around for 25 years (which is longer than some of our niche legal sector digital marketers!), while the first search engine was born in 1993 (Aliweb for those of you who are interested) and Google turns 18 this year. Remember a time before Google? Me neither!

Every day the MLT team drive organic and paid traffic to our clients’ websites with the end goal of generating business leads. However, in order us to help generate quality leads, we must have a solid knowledge about the type of law firm we are working with, for example:

As the legal sector continues to evolve and more and more law firms look to leverage the internet for the generation of new business, we continue to increase our resource to allow us to help our clients take advantage of the opportunities that exist online.

Moore Legal Technology is delighted to announce the launch of a new website for CALM Scotland (Comprehensive Accredited Lawyer Mediators), designed and built with great assistance from CALM Scotland member Scott Docherty (follow Scott on Twitter via @TheCalmMediator).

At the end of a week that began with me forgetting Valentines Day (again), I found myself in a meeting with a prospective client talking about how, in order to win online, they needed to view their website in much the same way as they view any relationship that is important to them.

We are pleased to note that the powerful, open source, scalable CMS that we use for the majority of our clients' websites (ie the core of their online business generation projects) has been voted the best free CMS of 2015 by cmscritic.com.

One of the things we appreciate about designing, optimising and enhancing legal websites is that they are, from a functionality perspective, pretty straightforward. Often they won't involve sophisticated queries, algorithms or logic. This doesn't mean that you can't get them badly wrong, but it does mean if you get them right they can really take off and deliver a steady stream of enquiries.