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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Playing a lawyer on TV
12/4/2008 10:00 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
When the sitcom, "Sex and the City" geared up to go off the air after several successful seasons on HBO, marketers took action to make sure their heroines wouldn't be forgotten.
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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Steering law firm marketing
11/20/2008 8:00 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
When it comes to law firm marketing, potential clients want attorneys to do one thing: Sell the steak ... not the sizzle.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Law firms and title work
10/31/2008 7:40 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
On the front page of a service marketing Web site, the headline states that the industry's current business developer of the year is generating big results in her accounting firm.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Lawyers' tricks can be treats
10/22/2008 3:00 PM By Kathryn E. Brown
As Halloween approaches, cable networks proudly present horror films for audiences that love guts and gore.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: From click to clique
9/17/2008 2:00 PM By Kathryn E. Brown
Popular social networking Web sites such as MySpace and MyChurch, Facebook and FaceParty, offer interactive, user-submitted networks of personal profiles, blogs, photos, music and videos for people of all ages to peruse.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: The Agony and the Ex-tasy
8/19/2008 9:45 PM By Kathryn E. Brown
CHARLESTON -- One of the worst marriages in pop culture had to have been the merger of J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing (human versions of oil and water).

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: As green as wheatgrass
8/7/2008 9:30 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
CHARLESTON -- First, the Baby Boomers were unseated by the Baby Busters, and then Generation X was invaded by Generation Why. Now, there is a new group in circulation, and they are called The Bobos.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: From Atticus Finch to Harry Potter
7/24/2008 7:45 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." At least, those were the famous words of Charles Lamb, and English critic, poet, and essayist of the 1800s. The quotation was thought-provoking enough to make it into the preface of a famous novel, and it continues to haunt modern lawyers as they accept the realities of their profession.
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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Required summer reading for lawyers
6/26/2008 11:21 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
The headmaster of an exclusive, private boy's school in Massachusetts recently issued a statement on the institution's Web site explaining the reasons behind a mandatory summer reading program.

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YOUR LEGAL WRITES: Animal law to sit, stay
5/28/2008 10:00 AM By Kathryn E. Brown
For law firms, the veterinary industry may have become man's best friend.
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