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099: International Networking for Lawyers – Itzik Amiel

Itzik Itzik Amiel is a lawyer and a global leading authority on networking, relationship capital and global expansion. He has transformed the lives and careers of lawyers and professionals worldwide, bringing 20 years of research and experience to the art and science of business relationship development, client relationships and Attention Leadership.™

Itzik is a bestselling author of “The Attention Switch,™” one of the leading networking books globally.

Itzik is a sought-after, dynamic, engaging and inspiring speaker on the topics of Business Networking, Power of Connections, Attentional Networking, Attentional Leadership, Communication for Excellence, Personal Branding and Personal Development. He has delivered hundreds of keynote presentations and partners briefings in more than 54 countries worldwide. Itzik has shared the stage with some of the world’s leading thought-leaders, including Richard Branson, Les Brown, Darren Hardy and Nick Vujicic.

As Founder and CEO of EyeRon™ Group, a consulting and corporate services company for international expansion, and as Founder of the Power Networking Academy,™ Itzik provides professionals and leaders with strategic consulting and training to help them communicate more successfully, strengthen their relationships and market presence, and improve networking and personal branding for their businesses.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Where attention goes, energy flows.

Recommended Resource:

itzikamiel.com

Recommended Book:

The Attention Switch, Itzik Amiel

How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Contact Info:

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097: The Power of Client Relationships – Roberta Jacobs-Meadway

Roberta Jacobs-Meadway, a Member with Eckert Seamans in its Philadelphia office, has more than 40 years of experience representing clients in a wide range of industries in connection with trademark, copyright and unfair competition matters. Her practice includes litigating intellectual property disputes in the federal courts and trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has significant experience in connection with the licensing of intellectual property and counseling with respect to trademark and copyright issues.

She has been recognized by her peers for her experience and expertise, being honored by Chambers USA and others as a leader in trademark and copyright issues and related litigation. She is a frequent lecturer and author on topics relating to intellectual property.

Roberta has also been active in the legal community and served as the co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession (2013-2015), as well as on the Advisory Board of ALI-CLE for intellectual property.

Success Quote/Mantra:

If it doesn’t make sense, it’s probably not right.

Recommended Resource:

The TTA Blog

Techdirt

Recommended Book:

Lawrence Lessig books

Contact Info:

www.eckertseamans.com

Roberta’s Bio

rjacobsmeadway@eckertseamans.com

215.851.8522

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096: How and Why Lawyers Should Be Creating Webinars – John Corcoran

John Corcoran is an attorney, a writer, and a father, and a former Clinton White House Writer and Speechwriter to the Governor of California. Throughout his career, he has worked in Hollywood and the heart of Silicon Valley. John owns his own boutique law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs.

He is the creator of Smart Business Revolution and the Smart Business Revolution podcast.

His writing has appeared in Forbes, Huffington Post, Art of Manliness, Lifehacker, Business Insider, Get Rich Slowly, Dumb Little Man, and numerous other publications, blogs and websites.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Succeeding in business is all about making connections.

– Richard Branson

Recommended Resource:

LastPass

Recommended Book:

Give and Take, Adam Grant

Contact Info:

6figurelawfirm.com

smartbusinessrevolution.com

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095: Contrarian Business Development for Lawyers – David Godofsky

David Godofsky is Leader of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group of Alston & Bird LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. Mr. Godofsky is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary. He recently represented the Retirement Plan for Chicago Transit Authority Employees in the Supreme Court of Illinois in the Matthews case, which challenged the constitutionality, under the Illinois State Constitution, of the CTA’s pension reform agreement with its unions (decision pending). Mr. Godofsky also successfully represented the Governor of Florida in the Supreme Court of Florida in the Williams case, which challenged the constitutionality, under the Florida State Constitution, of the State’s pension reform legislation.

US News & World Report named Alston & Bird LLP the Law Firm of the Year for Employee Benefits (ERISA) for 2015 and the Law Firm of the Year for ERISA Litigation for 2016.

Success Quote/Mantra:

The product sells itself.

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Recommended Book:

Strategic Selling, Robert Miller

Contact Info:

www.alston.com

David’s Bio

david.godofsky@alston.com

202-239-3300

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094: Lessons from Marketing an Export Control and Economic Sanctions Practice – Sanjay Mullick

Sanjay Mullick concentrates his practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in export controls, economic sanctions, international dispute resolution and international trade regulation. He is a member of the firm’s India practice and is located in the Washington, DC office.

Mr. Mullick has a broad range of experience providing counsel to companies on export control matters administered by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Department of Energy’s rules on nuclear exports under Part 810, as well as economic sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He also assists clients with compliance matters concerning foreign trade zones (FTZ) and foreign lobbying rules under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Success Quote/Mantra:

The only failure is in not trying.

Recommended Resource:

Various Daily Alerts in Your Practice Area

Recommended Book:

The Wise Men, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas

Contact Info:

pillsburylaw.com

Sanjay’s Bio

sanjay.mullick@pillsburylaw.com

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093: The Ethics of Business Development – Lucian Pera

Lucian T. Pera is a partner with the Memphis, Tennessee office of Adams and Reese LLP. His practice includes civil trial work, including commercial litigation and media law, and he counsels and represents lawyers, law firms, and others on questions of legal ethics and the professional responsibility of lawyers. A Memphis native, he is an honors graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Law. He served for five years on the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. From 1995 through 2009, he led the Tennessee Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Under his leadership, the committee developed and successfully proposed to the Tennessee Supreme Court new legal ethics rules for Tennessee based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He has chaired the editorial board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, has served as president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Miller-Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility of the University of Akron. He is also the immediate past Treasurer of the American Bar Association, a former member of its Board of Governors and Executive Committee, and has served in the House of Delegates since 1990. He also serves as Vice President of the Tennessee Bar Association and will be its President in 2017.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Think about what you’re doing before you do it.

Recommended Resource:

Google Alerts

Recommended Book:

Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

Contact Info:

arlaw.com

Lucian’s Bio

lucian.Pera@arlaw.com

Phone: 901.524.5278

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092: A Pioneer in Online Legal Marketing Shares Cutting Edge Strategies – Greg Siskind

Greg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser and has practiced immigration law for nearly 25 years. He writes several books on immigration law, as well as the ABA’s Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. In 1994, he created the first immigration law web site, and in 1998, he created the world’s first law blog. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

– Woody Allen

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attorneyatwork.com

Recommended Book:

The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande

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091: Why Lawyers Need to Use Legal Project Management – Mark Lassiter

Attorney and Legal Project Manager Mark Lassiter is an experienced business attorney with over 30 years’ experience and a legal project manager.

As an attorney, Mr. Lassiter practices in the areas of business, real estate, construction and technology law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has an AV Preeminent®* rating with the Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings system, is a sustaining member in ARIZONA’S FINEST LAWYERS, was voted among the BEST OF ARIZONA ATTORNEYS in the Area of Alternative Dispute Resolution in RANKING ARIZONA (2012), and was included in Arizona’s Top Rated Lawyers of 2014 in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business and Commercial law in LEGAL LEADERS. He serves on both the mediation and arbitration panels of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and the American Arbitration Association, where he serves on its Commercial, Construction and Large and Complex Case Panels.

He is also the founder of Lex Projex™, an independent Project Management Office (“PMO”) offering outsourced Legal Project Management (“LPM”) services to corporate legal departments, law firms and legal vendors. Mr. Lassiter is a member of the Project Management Institute (“PMI”), its Legal Project Management Community of Practice, the Project Management Connected Community of the International Legal Technology Association (“ILTA”), and the Microsoft Project User’s Group (“MPUG”). He has completed upper level courses towards a Master’s Degree in Project Management at Northern Arizona University and in the Applied Project Management Certificate Program at Villanova University, as well as multiple on-line project management courses offered as PMI Professional Development Units (“PDUs”) through LYNDA.COM. He was one of the first lawyers in the country to develop a law school curriculum to teach Legal Project Management, and has taught Legal Project Management as an Adjunct Professor of Law. He has also taught Legal Project Management in the eDiscovery Legal Project Management Certificate Program and the Litigation Support Project Management Certificate Program of the Organization of Legal Professionals (“OLP”). Mr. Lassiter speaks nationwide on the topic of Legal Project Management to lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments and ESI-EED vendors.

Success Quote/Mantra:

You make money in the practice of law by the cases and clients you don’t take, not by the ones you do take.

Recommended Resource:

Lynda.com

Recommended Book:

Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind

Contact Info:

www.lexprojex.com

Mark’s Lassiter’s LexProjex™ Bio

Mark Lassiter’s NADN Bio

mark@lexprojex.com

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090: Using the Long Tail for Business Development – Alexander Davie

Alexander Davie‘s legal practice encompasses a wide variety of corporate and securities matters. He has worked extensively with technology companies, including startups, and emerging growth companies, on all aspects of their businesses, including company formation, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, corporate governance, debt and equity financings, and securities offerings. In addition, Mr. Davie has represented investment advisors, securities brokers, hedge funds, private equity funds, and real estate partnership syndicators in numerous private offerings of securities and in ongoing compliance. Prior to returning to private practice, Mr. Davie served as the general counsel to a private investment fund manager.

Mr. Davie has experience serving on the boards of a number of civic organizations, including the Nashville Business Incubation Center. He is also active in the Nashville Bar Association, serving as chair of its Business Law Committee.

Mr. Davie received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude and his Juris Doctor degree at Duke University School of Law, graduating with high honors. While in law school, he served as the Managing Editor of the Duke Law & Technology Review. In addition, Mr. Davie received a Master of Education degree in Organizational Leadership from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University.

Success Quote/Mantra:

Do or do not; there is no try.

– Yoda

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evernote.com

Recommended Book:

Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone

Contact Info:

www.riggsdavie.com

Alexander Davie’s Bio

adavie@riggsdavie.com

@xandavie (Twitter)

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089: Lean Innovation for Lawyers – Duncan Hart

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Duncan Hart began offering consulting services to professional service firms in 2002 after a 25-year career as a barrister, solicitor and then managing partner of one of Australia’s largest law firms.

His consulting assignments have spanned most professions, and he has traveled widely to provide services to firms and corporate clients located as far away as China, Dubai, Europe and the U.S.

Mr. Hart has written various articles, guides and books devoted to the “business of the law.” Many of those works reflect his wider consulting experience in industry. Mr. Hart believes that the legal profession has much to gain from the knowledge and experience of the wider commercial community in how to create, grow and manage organizations.