This past January I had the great opportunity to hear Jerod Morris speak at the Lawyer Forward conference in Austin, Texas.  Jerod is the VP for Marketing for Rainmaker Digital and the host of three podcasts –  The Showrunner, The Digital Entrepreneur, and The Assembly Call. In his talk at Lawyer Forward, Jerod spoke on […]

A few weeks ago I was interviewed on Jim Hart’s podcast, Legal Marketing Made Easy about my online courses that are designed to provide legal information to consumer dealing with debt problems.  Since then I have received some emails asking how I set up my courses and some of the tools that are used to […]

I am currently going through the process of changing the name of my law firm.  For nearly nine years I have operated under the name Skiba Law Group but have now changed my law firm name to the Arizona Consumer Law Group.  This changed was spurred by a change in the ethics rules here in […]

This past January I had the opportunity to speak at the  Lawyer Forward conference in Austin, Texas.  Michael Whelan is the founder of the Lawyer Forward conference and each year he brings together a bunch of lawyers who are looking for something more out of CLE and ways to improve not only their law practice […]

In today’s episode I discuss a topic that I have been thinking a lot about lately – improving customer service in my law firm.  In trying to find ways to provide better customer service I came across Jay Baer’s new book “Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers.”  Jay does an […]

The first episode of the JDBlogger Podcast was launched on December 5, 2012.  Over the years I have had the chance to conduct forty-one (41) interviews with some really smart and great people.  Thank you for all of those who have stayed with me over the years and continue to support the podcast. On today’s […]

One of my favorite things to do is grab lunch with a local attorney and exchange ideas on what is working and not working when it comes to building a law practice. So much of marketing for solo and small firm attorneys is done by trial and error and it can really give you a […]

In early February Avvo launched Avvo Legal Services – fixed-fee, limited scope legal services provided through its network of attorneys.  As of February 2016 Avvo has made the service available in eighteen states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and […]

Being a lawyer can be really difficult and really stressful.  For solo and small firm lawyers the load can be particularly heavy due to the many demands on your time and resources.  These demands leave many lawyers asking themselves if this is really worth it and too often it leads attorneys out of the practice […]

Content creation for law firms is often thought of in terms of blog articles, videos, and even podcasting.  However some of the most effective content creation I have done is for my law practice has been the content I created for use in handouts and other documents that are used as part of my consultation […]