Two Weeks Left to Nominate Your 2009 Rainmaker of the Year
Nominate a top rainmaker at your firm, or yourself! The editors of Originate!, the monthly business development newsletter, in association with Legal Sales and Services Organization (LSSO), announce this year's competition to identify and honor top business getters in the law.
Anyone can submit an entry on behalf of a top rainmaker they know in one of these categories, and there is no entry fee this year. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday July 31, 2009. Entry forms and additional information are available online at www.pbdi.org/originate. Or just click the program title.
Winners will be announced in the newsletter and receive a handsome award for display in their offices, plus gain publicity in nationally distributed press releases.
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Who were the top “rainmakers” in the law this past year, and how did they do it? To find out, the editors of Originate!, the monthly business development newsletter, in association with Legal Sales and Services Organization (LSSO), announce a competition to identify and honor top business getters in the law.
According to the editor-in-chief Barry Schneider, “We want to recognize the accomplishments of those lawyers who have geared up to bring in business and applied themselves to make it happen. And we want our readers to learn from those who have been particularly successful this past year.”
The newsletter is now soliciting entries from lawyers, firms, marketing specialists, recruiters and advisors in five categories:
- Associate
- Small firm lawyer (30 or fewer lawyers)
- Partner – transactions
- Partner – litigator
- Woman Lawyer
Anyone can submit an entry on behalf of a top rainmaker they know in one of these categories, and there is no entry fee this year. The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 31, 2009. Entry forms are available online: just click here. Winners will be announced in the newsletter and receive a handsome award for display in their offices, plus gain publicity in nationally distributed press releases.
A panel of independent judges with expertise in legal business development has been assembled by the Legal Sales and Service Organization (LSSO): Martha Fay “Marty” Africa, Managing Director of Major Lindsay & Africa consultants; Gabe Miller Esq., General Counsel of The Law Offices of James Sokolove; and Catherine MacDonagh, Esq., President of LSSO.The judges will determine the best of the best among the submitted entries.
Boston-based LSSO uniquely focuses on sales, service and process improvement in the legal industry, and sponsors the annual RainDance conference on business development. Elizabeth Cuzzone, a Co-Founder of LSSO, is Director of Business Development for the award-winning law firm Goulston & Storrs in
The editors of Originate! will profile each of the winners and publish their stories in the newsletter’s anniversary issue in September. The articles in that issue will be open to the public. To see the 2008 winners, and read their stories, go to the September 2008 Anniversary Issue.
For your entry form, just click here.
