Referral Attorney Requirements and Checks

Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. imposes high standards on the provider law firms and on all referral attorneys that provide legal services for their members. In order to receive referrals, an attorney must meet the following requirements:

WOW: Respect

I promise to treat each client as an individual who is deserving of my respect, attention and highest level of professionalism.

WOW: Respect

I promise to treat each client as an individual who is deserving of my respect, attention and highest level of professionalism.

RAD Tips for Provider Firms

This month's RAD tips will cover adding a new attorney to the database:

Avoiding Member Resolutions Requests

Member resolutions requests are normally caused by misunderstandings. Do not take them personally. Many times they can be resolved with some further communication.

RAD Tips for Provider Firms

As a new feature to the RAD Email Newsletter we will offer monthly RAD tips for Pre-Paid Legal Provider Firms. If you have any tips of your own or questions, please feel free to email us at erussell@primelegal.biz.

Member Resolutions Process

Pre-Paid Legal (PPL) values its membership base and wants to keep them as members. Members are offered several means to express their satisfaction, as well as their concerns with the service they receive.

Making a Great Impression on Pre-Paid Legal Members

Establishing an outstanding relationship with a new client often depends on both great legal advice and customer service. Here are some important tips for making a great impression on Pre-Paid Legal members.

Referral Attorney Service Standards

In previous articles we have discussed the various entities involved in the Pre-Paid Legal referral network, as well as the criteria for attorneys to join the network. In addition, Pre-Paid Legal referral attorneys are asked to meet certain expectations when dealing with Pre-Paid Legal members. These expectations are meant to ensure a high level of customer service and an open channel of communication between referral attorneys, members and provider firms.

Referral Attorney Requirements and Checks

This month we will cover the standards and review the procedures for Pre-Paid Legal Referral Attorneys. If you missed last month's issue or would like to review any of the previous articles, you may view them here.

Who Uses and Maintains the Referral Attorney Database (RAD)

The first part in this series of articles on the Referral Attorney Database (RAD) will address the various entities that utilize and maintain the database. The RAD is a database listing all the attorneys who have been recruited by Pre-Paid Legal or the state provider law firms and are qualified to provide services to Pre-Paid Legal members as assigned. The RAD contains information about the attorneys, their practice areas and qualifications to be a part of the Pre-Paid Legal referral network.

 

One of the most frequent requests I have heard throughout my career is "May I have your card?" Whether it's a sales call or business-to-business (B2B) networking, the practice of swapping business cards is the most common way to make an introduction. So why do so many merchant level salespeople (MLSs) arrive at meetings and trade shows without them?

From the obvious to the "Hey-I-never-thought-of-that-great-idea-before", here are 10 of the top 52 tips on how to optimize your website for its turbo-charge rocket ride up the search engine rankings.

Be bold. Use the <b> </b> tags around some of your keywords on each page. Do NOT use them everywhere the keyword appears. Once or twice is plenty.

 

Behavioral targeting — serving up ads to Internet users based on the sites they’ve already visited — has been standard practice on the Web for a couple of years, but not at Google (GOOG). That changed this morning, when the search giant rolled out its version of behavorial targeting, which it’s calling “interest-based advertising.”

Whether you are looking for a job or running a business, giving out business cards is crucial to marketing your skills or services. Even as a job seeker, develop the mindset of running the business of YOU, Inc. Business cards speak volumes about who you are, what you offer and how serious you are marketing YOU, Inc. as a business. Oh! So, you have a resume and don't need business cards. Can you carry 10 resumes in your wallet' Do you or can you carry your resume everywhere you go' A church bell ringing lets people know they are open for business. Your business card is your bell. Here are some proven tips using business cards to increase your chances of landing a job or creating a business opportunity.

OK, OK, so that's a little aggressive. But really, isn't that the whole deal? Get it right, and everything else follows. Get it wrong, and -- even if everything else is perfect -- you'll still fail.

By Bryan Eisenberg, ClickZ, Jun 25, 2001

Save Money on Postage

The current economic crisis is forcing many businesses to look for ways to cut costs.  One area where law firms tend to overspend is postage.  Here are some quick tips that may help your firm save time and money.

By Trent Brownrigg

Having links pointing to your Web site is a great way to increase traffic. Not only does it give people more ways to get to your site, but it is also a great way to improve your search engine rankings. But how can you get other sites to link back to you? Here are six tips you can take to encourage people to come back to your site while improving your search engine performance.What Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

If you think business cards aren't important marketing tools, you're wrong. Unfortunately, many lawyers simply stick to the old, outdated format of white card stock with a name and number printed in boring black letters. Bad idea, says Larry Bodine, business development advisor at Larry Bodine Marketing and owner of the popular legal marketing site www.LawMarketing.com.

 

 

Designing simple, intuitive, easy-to-use navigation for Web sites isn't just a good idea: It's good business. If you make it easy for users to find what they want on your Web site, they will reward you by coming back again and again. And designing good primary navigation -- the tabs, buttons, or text links that point to the most important areas of your site -- does not require a degree in computer science; all it takes is some common sense. Your site navigation will succeed to the extent that it: