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Author: Kristen Friend

Insights & ideas to help your law firm grow.

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How Law Firms Can Leverage AI for Competitive Intelligence and Better Decision Making

Traditional competitor tracking and analysis rely on identifying and reacting to past trends, and no longer prepare a law firm to compete in a continuously fluctuating search environment.
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A View from the Canva Create Conference

Canva’s 2026 Canva Create interactive conference took place on April 16 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Since our team uses Canva for several design and creative tasks, I was curious to see what the conference had to offer. So, I intrepidly braved the ostensible (but nonexistent) airport turmoil to fly down and check it…

Content marketing: 4 tips for creating compelling, sharable infographics

Most law firm infographics get published, shared once by the firm’s own accounts, and forgotten. Not because infographics don’t work — they do — but because most of them are built without a clear theory for why anyone outside the firm would want to share them. The infographics in CLM’s portfolio have generated links, press…
Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines for Lawyers

What lawyers can learn from Google’s latest search quality handbook

Google published an updated version of its Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines in September 2025. The document runs over 170 pages and lays out, in considerable detail, how Google’s team of human raters should evaluate the quality of webpages and search results. These are the real people Google employs to check the work of its algorithm,…
Important questions to ask an SEO agency

Six Questions to Ask An SEO Agency

You must be able to trust your agency will use your investment to help you grow and deliver more calls and cases.
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Be useful: How to design a website experience that solves real clients’ problems

Attorney websites have progressed significantly over the past decade. Blogs, regularly updated practice area content, video, and interactive tools have replaced the static brochure-style pages that once dominated the legal industry. Design standards have risen. Page speed expectations have tightened. Mobile traffic now accounts for the majority of visits to most law firm websites, and…
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Connect with Clients Through Powerful Pictures and Taglines

People make decisions about whether to trust a business within seconds of landing on its website. Before they read a headline, before they scan a practice area page, before they find the phone number — they see the images. And they form an impression. For law firms, that impression carries more weight than it does…
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Boost Your Law Firm Website Performance with this Web Credibility Checklist

Steps you can take to appear trustworthy to potential clients.
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Ten Ways to Diversify the Calls to Action on Your Law Firm Website and Help Boost Leads

Varying your CTAs can provide your firm with valuable data about how people are using your web pages and what types of CTA language work for you.
Five Ways Your Firm Can Generate More Leads From Its Website (That Aren’t Just More Content)

Five Ways Your Firm Can Generate More Leads From Its Website (That Aren’t Just More Content)

According to one HubSpot study, companies that develop websites with multiple landing pages have higher conversion rates than those with only a few.