Today, we're celebrating our newly opened video and podcasting studio!
To make this happen, we acquired a vacant space in our Kearny Street building. The space was conveniently located on the same floor as CLM headquarters making it easy to network the studio with the main office.
The CLM Studio took just over 6 months to complete. We have dual UHD cameras to capture two angles or multiple guests simultaneously. We will be hosting a lot of live events...
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Google had shifted most of their Google My Business Resources to ensuring that listings had up-to-date resources to help businesses communicate with their clients during COVID-19 shutdowns. During this time, we advised our clients to not reach out to their clients and request reviews since there was no certainty that those reviews would be posted.
Over the last 3 weeks, we have seen pre-shutdown reviews get posted to law firms’ Google My Business listings and...
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Legal professionals work for justice for a living, and as such, are often viewed as leaders in their communities. This is especially true during crises. Law firms have a responsibility not just to make a statement about where they stand on the human rights issues at stake in America today, but to enact racial justice in their communities and workplace through a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you, like many others, have struggled to know how...
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By now, you’re probably tired of COVID-19 news, COVID-19 talk, your house, your neighbor that has 5 children, all of which are aspiring musicians that practice all day, and that tank of gas you bought in February that’s still in your car.
Looking for something else to think about? If you focus on your law firm’s search rankings, we have good news! Google has rolled out a broad core algorithm up.
Google rolls out updates to their algorithm on...
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Google has publicly stated that they’re adopting measures to reduce the amount of time their team members are required to be in their offices. What does that mean for Google My Business and your law firm?
Well, for now, Google is prioritizing reporting accurate information regarding offices being open and hours being correct. Since many updates to your law firm’s Google My Business listing are subject to manual review by a Google team member, reviewing a flood of changes across...
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UPDATED: June 1, 2020
Starting on June 15th, officers and executives may return to offices for regular daily work activity. All other team members will continue to work at home until July 15th unless otherwise restricted by local ordinances.
UPDATED: May 5, 2020
Custom Legal Marketing will continue to require team members to work remotely until June 1, 2020. This includes personnel in our Tampa, Florida, and San Francisco, California offices. We are working hard every day to help our clients...
Unlike many countries, the United States has no single, comprehensive law governing how businesses collect and use individuals’ personal data. As consumers become more aware of the extent to which businesses accumulate, buy, sell and share personal information, states are beginning to step in and pass their own regulations. How will this affect law firms?
Major technology companies in the U.S. have enjoyed a business environment with relatively little regulation for decades, allowing them...Read More
As pat of our strong commitment to website security, Custom Legal Marketing (An Adviatech Company) teamed up with Cloudflare through their hosting partner program to make our websites faster and more secure.
You may have heard on CNN Tech or other major news outlets that a vulnerability was discovered in Cloudflare's code (being referred to as Cloudbleed) that allowed data to leak. Some discovered data was encrypted and could have included passwords.
The most sensitive information that...
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Google is rolling out a new mobile-first index over the coming months. The official announcement came at the beginning of November on Google's Webmaster Central Blog, although industry insiders have been speculating about the change for over a year. Google says that it is testing the mobile-first index, with the goal of switching to an index that uses the mobile version of a page’s content to serve all results. The process is still in an experimental phase,...
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Google revealed today that it has rolled out Penguin 4.0, the first confirmed Penguin update in nearly two years.
Google's announcement of the long-awaited release confirms what many in the SEO industry have long suspected (and hoped for). Penguin is now running in real-time. Additionally, Penguin is running at a more “granular” level, meaning it is looking at individual pages, rather than holding a single url's link spam against a whole site.
The current MozCast forecast,...
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