Allison C. Shields

Allison C. Shields is the President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., which offers coaching and consulting services for lawyers and law firms in the areas of practice management, marketing, social media, business development, productivity, and client service. A former practicing lawyer and law firm manager, Allison understands the law firm environment and the daily pressures faced by lawyers trying to manage and build their business while practicing law and successfully serving their clients.

Allison is the co-author of two books by the ABA Law Practice Division: LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers, the Second Edition of which was released in October 2013, and Facebook in One Hour for Lawyers. She is currently working on a new book on productivity for lawyers. Allison lectures frequently on practice management, marketing and social media topics for bar associations, law firms and legal organizations, and writes articles for several legal publications, both online and in print, including Law Practice Today, Law Practice Magazine, Law Technology Today, Lawyerist.com, Slaw.ca, TechnoLawyer, and others, as well as on her blog, LegalEaseConsulting.com and website, LawyerMeltdown.com.