By Dan Couvrette, Publisher of Family Lawyer Magazine

The response to FamilyLawyerMagazine.com, Family Lawyer Magazine and our quarterly e-newsletter has been overwhelmingly positive. It goes without saying that we’re extremely pleased to have accomplished our goal of assisting family lawyers improve their practice and work/life balance.

Your tremendous response inspired us to publish an unscheduled issue of Family Lawyer Magazine in electronic format which you can download for free here

I would like to take a moment to share some comments we have received in the past few months:

“Family Lawyer Magazine is absolutely the best magazine for me. I’ve gotten more helpful advice from this magazine than from the last ten CLE seminars I’ve attended.”

~ C.C., Family Lawyer, PA “Every issue of your e-newsletter provides me with something I can use in

my practice.”

~ K.T., Family Lawyer, CA

“I was very happy to receive the premiere issue of your Family Lawyer Magazine. It’s an excellent publication for family law attorneys. I’m sure all family lawyers will be glad to receive it. Please keep the issues coming.”

~ A.M., Family Lawyer, PA

In this electronic issue, we feature articles that help you expand the breadth of your practice by developing an expertise in pet custody, a crash course on how social media can grow your practice and how you can regain work/life balance.We also have an interview with a Judge on how to better prepare for court, a brand new column on “News” and a section devoted to QDROs.

I invite you to:

• Visit FamilyLawyerMagazine.com — This issue of Family Lawyer Magazine represents a very small cross section of the hundreds of articles that are available on FamilyLawyerMagazine.com.

•Contribute — Please let us know if you’d like to contribute an a article, a case review or a CLE presentation.

•Subscribe and read our Quarterly e-newsletter — Keep an eye out for our e-newsletter. To subscribe click here

Enjoy!

The Lilac Tree!

The results are in, and the winner of the Charity Funding Challenge  is The Lilac Tree, an organization that provides resources for divorcing women,  providing education, support and guidance to women in the divorce process.

About the Charity Funding Challenge

Last year, Family Lawyer Magazine created the Charity Funding Challenge in order to increase awareness and support the efforts of several worthwhile divorce related charities. Family Lawyers were encouraged to nominate their favourite divorce related charitable organizations and vote for the one they felt was most worthy of receiving the $1,000 cash donation and $5,000 in marketing services from Divorce Marketing Group, the publisher of Family Lawyer Magazine.

Divorce Marketing Group , Divorce Magazine, and Family Lawyer Magazine wish to congratulate  The Lilac Tree on their $6000 win. We would also like to thank Family Law Attorney Jay Frank of Aronbergh Goldgehn for having nominated The Lilac Tree as one of the charities in this challenge.

About The Lilac Tree

The Lilac Tree prepares women with individual information sessions, equipping them with legal and financial knowledge, as well as preparing them emotionally for what is to come. They also hold divorce workshops and seminars based out of Chicago that focus on topics like the roles of the divorce team (attourneys, mediators and financial planners), how to help children through divorce and co-parenting, career transitions, stress reduction, and much more. The Lilac Tree also offers free referrals to divorce professionals like attourneys, therapists, career counsellors, financial planners, and many others. For more information visit: www.thelilactree.org.

About Divorce Marketing Group

Divorce Marketing Group is a Toronto-based marketing agency dedicated to helping divorce professionals (such as lawyers, financial advisors and mediators) across North America market their services.

Family Lawyer Magazine wishes to thank all who voted and participated in this worthwhile event.

iPad 2 Winner!! Attorney David A. Dowdy of Houston, Texas from the firm Lilly, Newman & Van Ness, L.L.P. has won an iPad 2! CONGRATULATIONS, DAVID!

Family Lawyer Magazine is Announcing a Second Contest!

 Here’s what to do:

If you are a family lawyer in the U.S. or Canada, simply subscribe to our quarterly Family Lawyer Magazine eNewsletter and you will be automatically entered for a chance to win.

Click here to enter into the draw which closes on December 15, 2012. Just before Christmas!

On behalf of the entire team here, I’m pleased to welcome you to FamilyLawyerMagazine.com, a “go to” website where family lawyers can find trusted resources to help them better manage their practices and live balanced lives.

Some of you may know that our company, Divorce Marketing Group, publishes Divorce Magazine, DivorceMagazine.com and BlogsOnDivorce.com, and we are the only marketing agency dedicated to helping family lawyers and divorce professionals grow their practices.

As part of our work on those initiatives, I’ve attended family lawyer conferences across North America for many years – 16, in fact! And I discovered that, while each conference generated a wealth of useful information and resources, that knowledge wasn’t really being shared with family lawyers outside the state or province.

I created Family Lawyer Magazine to bridge that knowledge gap. In here you’ll find case reviews, CLE presentations and articles on best practices for marketing, creating rain makers, winning cases, client services, courtroom strategy, free CLE, technology, taking care of your health and well being, and much more. Plus, our articles are written for family lawyers by family lawyers, judges and service providers who really understand what’s going on in the dynamic and complex family law field.

And of course, we DON’T charge a fee for accessing our content, or oblige you to sign-up for a membership or subscription. We make it easy, quick and enjoyable for you to access a wealth of family law/family lawyer related content.

And best of all: this is just the beginning!

We have many exciting initiatives on the horizon, including:

• Our printed Family Lawyer Magazine
• Family Lawyer eNewsletter, and
• Marketing Teleseminars for Family Lawyers and Divorce Professionals
• Family lawyer blog.

You can sign-up for the e-newsletter here and get a chance to win an ipad. We’ll be launching the print edition of Family Lawyer Magazine in the spring of 2012. Learn more about our Marketing Teleseminar here.

If you’re interested in advertising on this website and in the printed Family Lawyer Magazine, please contact me at DanC@DivorceMarketingGroup.com

We’re also looking for guest bloggers for this site, DivorceMagazine.com and BlogsOnDivorce.com, so drop me a note if you’d like to share your point of view with your peers and colleagues.

In closing, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to thank the team here for all of their hard work in making FamilyLawyerMagazine.com a reality. From our web designers, to our writers, to our coordinators, and everyone else who has worked so hard. Also, a special thank you to our advertisers who believed in this magazine while it was in its infancy. Thank you for being part of what is poised to be a very helpful, important and influential website for the family law community. We’re on our way!

Dan Couvrette, CEO

Family Lawyer Magazine, Divorce Magazine and Divorce Marketing Group