Posts Categorized: CDLB Articles

  Published in the Thursday June 4, 2020 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin   By Michael C. Craven and Marla Levie Craven   Michael C. Craven is a family law partner at Harrison & Held LLP. He is a member and officer of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and has long been fascinated by the world of legal marketing. Marla Levie Craven is the wife of family law attorney Michael Craven. She spent decades as the owner of a marketing consulting company. Many of he...   Read more ...  

  Published in the Thursday March 5, 2020 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin   By Marla Levie Craven   Marla Levie Craven is the wife of family law attorney Michael Craven. She spent decades as the owner of a marketing consulting company. Many of her clients were law firms and attorneys. Recently, I was out with a group of women, some I had only just met. One began to share many details about her recent divorce. She told the group her case ended up going to trial and her ...   Read more ...  

  Published in the January 24, 2019 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin   As of Jan. 1, there are more than 250 new laws in Illinois. They cover everything from gun control to animal welfare to health care and education. They truly run the gamut.   Many of these laws can have a daily effect on people’s lives. As someone that likes to provide value to my current and former clients, informing them on how these new laws could affect them may provide the knowledge needed to g...   Read more ...  

  Published in the September 10, 2018 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin   Welcome to my regular column, Discourse on Divorce. In this edition, I look at divorces that are affected by opposing political views and how attorneys can handle divorces under these circumstances. In the past few years, with our country’s changing and heightened political environment, it seems that politics have become much more prevalent in everyday life. Consequently, political conversations have b...   Read more ...  

  Published in the October 11, 2017 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin   Some law practices lend themselves to repeat clients. For those practices, generating new business can be as simple as going to existing clients and asking them what else they can handle for them. But for specialty practices, such as divorce law, even your happiest clients may only need your services once.   For practices that feature many one-time clients, it may seem impossible to generate new busin...   Read more ...