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Legal Marketing Minutes, hosted by Legal Marketing Professional Nancy Myrland, contains short bursts of current marketing, business development, content, social and digital media news and advice for lawyers, legal marketers, and law firms. Nancy’s goal is always to help you grow your practice by making the complex simple. Your time is valuable, so let’s get

Will AI Learn The Tough Mental Health Lessons Of Social Media?On August 4, 2025, OpenAI published a blog post titled “What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for,” revealing something interesting. They appear to be applying lessons learned from two decades of social media evolution.
After nearly 3 years observing how people use ChatGPT, OpenAI noticed troubling patterns:

  • Some users are developing unhealthy attachments to AI
  • Others spend excessive time

On August 4, 2025, OpenAI published a blog post titled “What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for,” revealing something interesting. They appear to be applying lessons learned from two decades of social media evolution.
After nearly 3 years observing how people use ChatGPT, OpenAI noticed troubling patterns:

  • Some users are developing unhealthy attachments to AI
  • Others spend excessive time

Artificial intelligence just took a major step forward. Before you let it take a step into your firm, let’s discuss.
Two of the most well-known AI platforms, ChatGPT and Perplexity, have launched something called AI, or agentic, browsers. Similar to AI agents that I have discussed here:

These browsers are built to act on

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#LMA25 Cross-Selling Session With James Barclay, CEO, Passle Inc.Because cross-selling, or cross-serving as some prefer to call it, can be a challenging endeavor in many law firms, and given James Barclay’s friendship, I didn’t want to miss his session at our recent Legal Marketing Association annual conference in Washington, DC.
James, who is the CEO of Passle, delivered a compelling session titled “Harnessing

#LMA25_ GC Panel Coverage by Nancy MyrlandThe In-House Counsel Panel at the 2025 Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Conference offered something that our conference attendees always find valuable: unfiltered client insights.
Moderated by Tasneem Khokha, Co-Chair of the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference and Managing Director of GrowthPlay, the panel featured three senior in-house leaders who shared exactly what

#LMA25 Keynote by Obama Speechwriters by Nancy MyrlandFormer Obama speechwriters Cody Keenan and Terry Szuplat opened the 2025 Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Conference (#LMA25) with a keynote that brought this attendee to her feet once or twice. Moderated masterfully by Katie Munroe, Chief Marketing Officer at Zuckerman Spaeder and Co-Chair of this year’s Annual Conference Advisory Committee (ACAC), the session