While I'm not in law, I was involved in the building of a successful small business, and I suspect at least some of my experiences would apply. I agree with Ducay - social networking probably won't be an effective use of time/resources for your type of business, though sometimes you never know. Even a web page is only useful if you can get prospective clients to go to it. To be honest, the easiest way to bring in clients is to have someone on staff with an existing client base. Other than that, what we found effective was networking - actually meeting with prospective clients. Once we were able to get some work, by doing high quality work at good value we were able to bring in more business from word of mouth. Targeted advertising may also be useful - you need to identify who your potential clients are and figure out how to get them to see your ads.
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