LML 010: Law Marketing through Taking Care of Your Clients – Jeremy Adamson

Jeremy_Adamson photo (2)Jeremy Adamson is a partner in Kunzler Law Group’s litigation department.  He represents clients in a wide variety of disputes, beginning in their earliest stages through trial, including commercial litigation, employment matters, intellectual property disputes, and regulatory enforcement actions.  Mr. Adamson also has significant experience counseling clients in securities and consumer finance litigation and has conducted numerous internal investigations.

Success Quote/Mantra:

The best settlement strategy is a good trial strategy.

The keys to success in marketing are to take care of the relationships and clients that you already have by being responsive, being proactive, and doing good work.

Recommended Internet Resource:

Facebook

Contact Info:

jadamson@kunzlerlaw.com

(801) 994-4646

LML 009: Law Firm Marketing through Music with David Tolk

David Tolk Impressions SmallDavid Tolk is a shareholder with Richards Brandt Miller Nelson in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He focuses on workers’ compensation defense litigation.  David is also a successful composer and pianist.  He has released nine instrumental piano albums which have received national and international distribution.

 

 

Success Quote / Mantra:

If you are not doing something that you are passionate about, you should be doing something else.

When tempted to procrastinate a task, view it as a gift to your future self.  Do one extra task daily to minimize stress.

Recommended Internet Resource:

Pandora.com – David Tolk station

Recommended Book:

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell

Contact Info:

david-tolk@rbmn.com

Richards Brandt Miller Nelson

www.davidtolk.com

LML 008: Legal Marketing through Staying Connected – Geoff Haslam

G. HaslamSince joining the Salt Lake City, Utah law firm of Christensen & Jensen, P.C. in 1995, Geoff Haslam has focused his legal practice on litigation.  He has extensive experience in product liability, professional liability, construction, and personal injury defense, and he serves as panel counsel for many corporations and liability insurers.  As a long-time member and Panel Chair of the Utah State Bar’s Ethics and Discipline Committee, Geoff also offers unique insight for attorneys facing potential disciplinary hearings.  Geoff is regularly appointed as a mediator, arbitrator or special master in a wide variety of cases.

Success Quote/Mantra:

You don’t have to be a jerk to get more work.

Recommended Internet Resource:

LinkedIn

Recommended Book:

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Gary D. Chapman

Contact Info:

geoffrey.haslam@chrisjen.com

(801) 323-5000

LML 007: An Aggressive Online Presence with Kate Catrambone

CatramboneKate Catrambone is an advertising consultant with YP in San Diego, CA, and she has worked in all aspects of advertising, marketing and media for over 25 years.  Currently, she works with attorneys (from solo practitioners to partners at large firms) to build their brand, generate client leads, and create a relevant, local presence that “breaks through all the clutter.”  Ms. Catrambone studied art and theater at Mount Holyoke and Yale.

Success Quote/Mantra:

“I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”  – George Bernard Shaw

Recommended Internet Resource:

HubSpot

Recommended Book:

How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life, Michael LeBoeuf

Contact Info:

sandiegoleadmaker.wordpress.com

(858) 722-3078

cc2616@yp.com

LML 006: Combining the Personal and Professional in Legal Marketing with Terry Welch

Welch HS PRINTFrequently cited by legal press as one of Utah’s top commercial litigators, Terry Welch handles general litigation, intellectual property and patent litigation, antitrust, product liability, insurance and bad faith disputes, manufacturer/distributor relations, and cases of tragic injury. He is a shareholder with Parr Brown Gee & Loveless in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In addition to providing significant service to his church and community, Mr. Welch brings the perspective of one who grew up on a dairy farm and who loves all things outdoors.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you are right.

Recommended Internet Resource:

LinkedIn

Contact Info:

Twelch@parrbrown.com

(801) 257-7950

LML 005: Win/Win Legal Marketing Strategies with Carl Barton

Barton_Carl_Color_20040416_NM_crop_straightCarl Barton has practiced law for 28 years.  He is currently a partner at Holland & Hart LLP in Salt Lake City, focusing on commercial real estate.  His extensive experience includes the acquisition, development, entitlement, financing, leasing, exchange, and sale of large-scale retail, office, multi-family residential, resort, and energy projects, including all land use and water rights aspects of such transactions.  He spent eight years in Paris and Brussels.  He currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, has two accomplished sons, and has a passion for “building things.”

Success Quote/Mantra:

Do something to become preeminent and to dominate in your practice area.

Recommended Internet Resource:

Wall Street Journal

Recommended Book:

How Will You Measure Your Life, Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon

Contact Info:

www.hollandhart.com

(801) 799-5831

LML 004: Asking the Right Questions with Debra Pickett

DebraPickettDebra Pickett, award-winning journalist (associated with the Chicago Sun-Times, WBBM and WTTW in Chicago, and CNN) and former public strategist with MK Communications, is the President of Page 2 Communications, a Chicago-based consulting firm that delivers media, strategy, training, and support to law firms, individual litigators and their clients.  She currently manages Page 2’s daily operations, which include providing PR services and communication strategy consulting across the Midwest.

Success Quote

“Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing.  The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed, at least in part, to our starting off so well-informed.  We are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.” – Professor Paul Bloom

Recommended Book

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership, by Alison Levine

Recommended Internet Resource

Law360

Contact Information

Page 2 Communications

deb@page2comm.com

LML 003: Intentional Client Development-Matthew Meaker

Meaker_MattMatt Meaker has practiced law for over 10 years and has developed a business-minded approach to legal issues.  He has been described as a “business man in a lawyer’s suit” who is more focused on the business success of his clients than on billable hours.  Clients also have expressed appreciation for his ability to translate “legalese” into layman’s terms that they can understand.  The focus of his practice is on construction law, civil litigation, business and corporate law and real estate law.

Success Quote

“In life, it’s not about how hard you can hit, but about how hard you can GET hit.” – Rocky Balboa in the movie, Rocky

Recommended Book

The Lawyer’s Field Guide to Effective Business Development, William J. Flannery Jr.

Recommended Internet Resource

LinkedIn

Contact Information

(480) 518-4581 (cell)

(480) 425-2627

matthew.meaker@sackstierney.com

LML 002: Investing in Client Relationships for Legal Marketing Success with Juli Blanch

Blanch_JP[2]Juli Blanch is a shareholder with the law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, Utah.  A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ms. Blanch has an extensive product liability practice, representing manufacturers and distributors of all types of products, including appliances, power tools, and vehicles.  While Ms. Blanch’s practice has an emphasis in product liability, she has handled litigation of all types and sizes over the past several years, ranging from catastrophic personal injury claims to employment litigation; from commercial disputes to insurance coverage lawsuits.

Success Quote

“Be yourself, unless you are a jerk.  In that case, be someone else.”

Recommended Book

Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel

Recommended Resource

Magazines such as Utah Business Magazine

Contact Information

jblanch@parsonsbehle.com

LML 001: Time Management with Hugh Culver

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Hugh Culver researches, writes, speaks, and trains leaders to “Think better, Plan smarter, and Act now.”  He co-founded the world’s most exclusive tour company and established the only private flights to the South Pole, partnered to build five businesses, is a motivational speaker/workshop director, and is the Canadian best-selling author of Give Me a Break, the Art of Making Time Work for You.

 

Success Quote

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”  (Goethe)

Recommended Book

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It, by Kelly McGonigal

Recommended Internet Resource

See the “Free Resources” link at hughculver.com for videos regarding Hugh’s time management/business success systems.

Hugh’s Contact Information

hughculver.com

(250) 862-8482