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New York, NY, US

New York, New York, US

New York, US

Chief legal advisor to a premier New York City-based catering and event management company on a full range of employment, regulatory, human resources, litigation, and contract issues.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Led all visibility-raising, prominence-building, and business development initiatives for 220-attorney litigation boutique with offices in seven cities. Directed team of 13 professionals responsible for internal and.
• Developed and launched firm’s first client feedback interview program; delivered reports and recommendations to relationship partners to institutionalize key learnings.
• Restructured marketing and business development department and implemented new protocols, metrics, professional development criteria, and performance expectations for each role in alignment with firm, practice group.
• Rebranded and relaunched firm website with new functionality, content, and imagery.
• Deployed business development training and coaching program to attorneys from underrepresented groups to enhance pitching skills and maximize client interactions.
• Launched pronoun policy for firm members to express pronouns in internal and external firm systems, including HR databases, firm intranet, website biographies, and email signatures.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Directed marketing and client development functions for the 500+ attorney litigation practice of a 16-office international law firm. Managed team of eight people who supported firm-wide client development functions.
• Industry Group Planning and Implementation: Built strategic plans that included market positioning and branding, visibility/prominence-building, media strategy, cross-selling and internal collaboration, and client.
• Task Force/Response Teams: Created several multi-disciplinary attorney response teams to position firm as a one-stop solution to address needs for legal services driven by emerging legal/regulatory risks and.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborated with firm and practice leadership to develop strategic business plans for firm-wide practice groups and sub-groups using standard procedures and protocols to define and implement.
• Litigation Tracking and Pitching: Developed and implemented firm-wide protocol for litigation tracking and pitch management designed to both increase services to existing firm clients and to leverage extensive attorney.
• Compliance and Litigation Products: Created customizeable products made up of several modules to address compliance needs for private equity portfolio companies, trade secrets audits, and consumer and biometric.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Developed continuing legal education conferences on cutting-edge topics to educate and provide networking opportunities for members of the corporate and securities legal and business community.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with law firms, corporations, bar associations and trade associations to deepen marketing reach to target audience.

Toronto, ON, CA

Designed and executed ongoing training programs to grow $27M new sales business by approximately 10% per year and existing business by approximately 7% per year.

Toronto, ON, CA

Managed territory exceeding $6 million per year to 105% of revenue goal.Awarded Account Manager of the Year in 1998 with 132% of revenue goal attained.

Toronto, ON, CA

Recruited authors and negotiated publication contracts.Composed, edited, and revised material for specialty practice publications.Led CD-ROM development teams.

Education record

Doctor Of Law - Jd

B.A., Economics/English