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Driving Your Own Success: How to Become an Associate Rainmaker

Learn how a young woman associate — recognized as a top business development performer by Originate! magazine and the Legal Sales & Service Organization — succeeded in business development and how to make the lessons she learned work for you this year.

Elizabeth GunnJoin our guest Elizabeth L. Gunn, Esq. for this inspiring and informative seminar. She recently was awarded the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year award for an Associate. She is at DurretteBradshaw PLC, an 18 lawyer boutique firm based in Richmond, Virginia. She regularly practices in the firm's bankruptcy practice group, representing creditors, debtors-in-possession and trustees in matters before the courts.

Though Ms. Gunn started off with two big disadvantages, she has demonstrated that commitment and laser-like attention in three areas — client service, key associations and peer networking — can overcome apparent obstacles and drive a business development machine. How well did it work? In a two day span, she brought to her firm 15 new clients!

For more about the speaker, see below.


 

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In this session, we will profile this exceptional Rainmaker, and hear her story in her own words. We will also review the lessons to be learned from her achievements, and specify how you and your fellow Associates can achieve similar successes in 2010:

  • How does this top-performing associate contribute to the marketing success of her firm?
  • How can client service be your stepping stone to new business?
  • How do you find the time to do marketing and garner the firm support you need to make marketing programs work?
  • What are the keys to building a reputation and a network among clients and referral sources?
  • What specific marketing activities worked for her and how can you emulate them at your firm?
  • How did she open up opportunities and learn the ways to market and sell in the early stages of her legal career?
  • How can you turn personal relationships into business opportunities?

Ms. Gunn is joined by marketing experts Larry Bodine, Esq. and Barry Schneider of Apollo Business Development who have helped associates at dozens of firms start their business building the right way and bring in millions in revenue. For more about them, see below.


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Who should attend:

  • Junior and Senior Associates who want to see what they can do to start bringing in business and ensure a productive career
  • Young partners eager to advance their business building skills
  • Marketing personnel who want methods to support their associate marketing
  • Firm leaders seeking to maintain and grow the firm by building a solid base of entrepreneurial young lawyers

Gain the insights and practical lessons that others have mastered.

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Web seminars are a highly effective and cost-saving way to gain the full benefits of our years of experience...and the lessons of the top rainmakers.

What is a web-seminar? The format allows you to remotely attend a seminar without spending the extra time and costs associated with a live, in-person presentation. You simply connect to a website to both view the slides and listen to the presentation over a group conference call. The advantages for you:

  • Economical - The seminars cost a fraction of what you would pay for similar training at an open forum. Also, any number of people can attend in the room where you connect to the site and the call — at the same low price. So the format is perfect for a team or group of co-workers.
  • Time-saving - You can attend no matter where you are, with no commuting or down-time. For most people, it's lunch.
  • Reviewable - You receive all the slides of the session for review at any time.

Find out what associates who have marketed themselves successfully are doing to establish or boost their careers with our seminar on How to Become an Associate Rainmaker.

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Responses to our other web seminars:

"It was a great seminar, with many important things to think about, presented in an engaging way." - David Southern, Gardner Carton & Douglas

"...a fantastic seminar. I have had extremely positive feedback from a number of our lawyers including our Managing Partner...We expect to follow up with SAGE for another seminar." - Multiple-office Law Firm

"I wanted to let you know that I thought last week's webinar was extremely well-done and well-received by the attorneys in my Firm. The 20 associates in attendance said that they found the information useful and "use-able". In fact, we are planning a follow-up seminar next week to review some of the points you covered and to start critiquing peoples' 30-second commercials. I've also had requests to meet with folks one-on-one to help them develop a plan to begin to implement some of the ideas you discussed. For us, that's real progress. - Marketing Director, Washington DC Law Firm

The session is direct and to-the-point, giving attendees an abundance of proven, practical ideas and suggestions for making career breakthroughs this year
- through superior business development.

PRESENTED BY:
Apollo Business Development

FEATURED PANELISTS:
Elizabeth L. Gunn, Esq.
joins Barry Schneider and
Larry Bodine of Apollo Business Development

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Participants will learn how to develop their own Associate Rainmaker Plan for 2010:

  • Getting started on business development and dealing with obstacles.
  • Seizing opportunities
  • Building business through client service
  • Using associations effectively to build a referrals network
  • Turning relationships into client work
  • Becoming a rainmaker
  • What to do and Not to do

Gain the practical insights and real world examples you need to keep your clients and earn more of their business.

 

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About the Speakers:

Elizabeth L. Gunn regularly practices in the firm's bankruptcy practice group, representing creditors, debtors-in-possession and trustees in matters before the courts.

Ms. Gunn represents closely-held businesses, their owners and executives. Her experience includes:

* Bankruptcy Creditor Representation in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 matters.
* Contracts for the purchase and sale of stock, assets and real estate.
* Chapter 11 Debtor representation.
* Prosecution and negotiation of breach of contract claims in Circuit and General District Courts.
* Litigation of fraudulent and voluntary transfer complaints.
* Collection of judgments against individuals and corporate debtors.
* Chapter 7 Trustee representation.

Personal Background:

Ms. Gunn earned her law degree cum laude from Boston College Law School where she served as Solicitations and Symposium Editor of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review. She graduated cum laude from Willamette University with a degree in Politics and Economics.

Admissions:

* Virginia
* United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern a District of Virginia
* United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western a District of Virginia
* United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
* United States Court for the Eastern District Court of Michigan
* United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
* United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
*
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Professional Affiliations:

* Richmond Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
* American Bankruptcy Institute
* Virginia State Bar
* American Bar Association
* International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, Virginia Network
* Business & Finance Turnaround Association
* Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association

Publications:

* Swing and a Miss: A Chapter 7 Trustee's Ability to Revoke a Debtor's Discharge
* "New Bankruptcy Law Enacted," Inside Supply Management, January 2006 (Coauthored with John H. Maddock III)

Community Service:

* Rotary Club of Goochland-Foundation Chair
* Richmond Symphonic Winds
* European Wind Ensemble



Larry Bodine is an industry leading business development advisor who trains lawyers on how to get new clients and generate business. He is a founder of Apollo Business Development training and coaching, and the director of The Law Marketing Portal, the number one web destination for business development articles, resources and tools in the marketing of legal services.

Since 2000 Larry has been a business development advisor to law firms and businesses across the country on marketing strategy, individual sales plans and Web sites. Typical assignments include developing a firmwide marketing strategy, meeting with partners to compose individual marketing plans and using technology to market a law firm.

He is the former Director of Communications of Sidley, Austin Brown & Wood, where he served for eight years. He also has 15 years' experience as a journalist, serving as Editor and Publisher of the American Bar Association Journal, the National Law Journal, Lawyers Alert (renamed Lawyers Weekly) and other news publications.

Larry practiced law in Madison, Wisconsin and is a cum laude graduate of both Seton Hall University (J.D., 1981) and Amherst College (B.A., 1972).

Barry M. Schneider has been a marketing strategy and business development advisor to the professions for over 20 years.

He is a founder of Apollo Business Development training and coaching, and of SAGE PDI, Inc. (SAGE Professional/SAGE Law Marketing), based in St. Charles, IL. For nearly three years, he has served as editor-in-chief for Originate!, the premier online newsletter on business development for lawyers.

Prior to establishing SAGE, Barry was a member of the team that established the marketing function at Andersen Worldwide (Arthur Andersen & Accenture). He has also been a principal in charge of marketing at a startup software firm, designed and developed multimedia and web-based programs, and created web content for client firms.

Early in his career, Barry was a market strategy consultant and advisor with the Boston Consulting Group.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and earned his MBA at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, as well as an MA in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University.

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