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Check List Online-Reputation-Management
Online Reputation
Management
For Lawyers
About this
Checklist
your of f ice. That ’s why, for most law yers, online marketing
Introduction 1
Online Reputation Management
STEP 1 2
Follow what’s Being Said About You and Your Firm
STEP 2 3
Be Aware of What’s Being Said Online Review Sites
STEP 3 4
Request and Track Feedback
STEP 4 5
Augment Positive Reviews
STEP 5 6
Manage Negative Reviews
INTRODUCTION
While online resources can help legal consumers f ind You could hire a reputation management company to handle
law yers, they can also be used by those ver y same people to this task for you, but the costs can add up. If you’d rather
express dissatisfac tion with a law f irm’s ser vices. With the avoid the expense, then you’ll have to handle it in-house.
rise of Yelp and other online review sites, reputation Here are some tips to help you do just that.
1
STEP 1
discussions about you and your law f irm. Once you create
results are located. You can also utilize tools that track
BrandWatch, or BrandsEye.
Monitor online Review summaries of
chat ter online mentions
Es tablish account s
with online monitoring
ser vices
2
STEP 2
The sites clients use to f ind law yers are of ten the same sites
Google Business.
Choose online review Track comment s made
sites to follow about your f irm
3
STEP 3
Request and
Track Feedback
4
STEP 4
Augment Positive
Reviews
5
STEP 5
Manage Negative
Reviews
client stumble upon this review. And f inally, counterac t the Track online Make sure to avoid
reviews including conf idential
negative review by encouraging other clients to leave information in your
reply
positive reviews on that site.
Carefully and Counterac t the review
thought fully address by asking other
negative reviews client s to leave
positive reviews
Provide a brief,
measured response
and tr y to move the
discussion of f line
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About the Author
Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York at torney, author, journalist, and the Legal Technolog y Evangelist at MyCase, legal
prac tice management sof t ware. She is the nationally-recognized author of “Cloud Computing for Law yers” (2012) and
co -authors “ Social Media for Law yers: The Nex t Frontier ” (2010), both published by the American Bar A ssociation. She
also co -authors “Criminal Law in New York,” a Thomson Reuters treatise. She writes regular columns for Above the Law,
ABA Journal, and The Daily Record, has authored hundreds of ar ticles for other publications, and regularly speaks at
conferences regarding the intersec tion of law and emerging technologies. She is an ABA Legal Rebel, and is listed on the
Fastcase 50 and ABA LTRC Women in Legal Tech. She can be contac ted at niki.black@mycase.com.