Legal Marketing & PR

Building Your Personal & Client Business Development Plans

By Larry Bodine, Esq.

Come to the "Get a Life Conference" next Wednesday in Chicago, where I'll be speaking on "Building Your Personal & Client Business Development Plans."  The conference is sponsored by the The Practice Management Association, a new organization that helps attorneys seeking innovative ways to grow their practice and manage their office without sacrificing their personal and family life. 

I'll be talking about how lawyers can survive the recession by focusing on:

• Six Thriving practice areas
• Generating leads with FREE technology
• Four primary sources of new business
• Stop 'making a pitch' and start asking  questions
• Business Development is a learnable skill
• Networking with a purpose

The two-day conference takes plan on Wednesday, May 27 and Thursday May 28 at Hyatt Regency, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601. The awesome list of additional speakers includes:

• Ed Adams, Editor and Publisher, the ABA Journal
• Brad Botes, Esq., Partner, Manager, and Vice President in Charge of Legal Relationships
• Kevin Chern, Esq., President, Total Attorneys
• Damon Cheronis, Esq., Attorney
• Erik Clark, Esq., Founding Partner, Borowitz, Lozano & Clark, LLP
• Stephen Fairley, CEO, Rainmaker Institute
• Ross Fishman, CEO, Fishman Marketing, Inc.
• Max Gardner, Esq., Founder, Bankruptcy Bootcamp
• Will Hornsby, Esq., Author and Staff Counsel, ABA Division for Legal Services
• Steven Imparl, Author
• Mark Jacobsen, Senior Director of Product Development, FindLaw
• Nancy Roberts Linder, Principal, Nancy Roberts Linder Consulting
• John Mickalovski, LPO Operations Manager, Total Attorneys
• Alexis Martin Neely, Esq., Law Business Revolution
• Kevin O'Keefe, CEO, Lex Blog
• John Remsen, Jr., President, The Remsen Group
• Gerry Riskin, Esq., Co-Founder/Partner, Edge International.
• Tim Ryan, Vice-President, Total Attorneys
• Ameet Sachdev, Business Reporter, the Chicago Tribune
• Ed Scanlan, CEO & Founder, Total Attorneys
• Allison Shields, Esq., Owner, Legal Ease Consulting

Full post as published by Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog on May 23, 2009 (boomark / email).