The savviest social media marketers only craft social media posts with a strategic mindset to support their firms’ and their lawyers’ business development efforts. If the post doesn’t support your firm’s strategic goals, immediately abort mission.

Now, that being said, not every post you create should solely focus on your firm’s work and its substantive news, events and publications – that can make your firm seem dry and devoid of personality and heart.

…if the post doesn’t support your firm’s strategic goals, immediately abort mission.

Firms should also showcase their “softer” side, which can support their business development efforts as well, because clients want to see that their outside counsel has multidimensions to their firm.

Showcasing the softer side of your law firm humanizes your firm and makes your lawyers more relatable. For example, intersperse posts about firm life, pro bono and community service activities, as well as profiles on current lawyers and alumni, and photos from firm events depicting individuals at the firm engaging with each other socially.