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President
Jennifer Morrison
Marketing Manager
Ungaretti & Harris LLP
jcmorrison@uhlaw.com
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Jennifer Morrison is the Marketing Manager at Ungaretti & Harris LLP. She has more than 12 years of experience in the marketing field. With nine of those years spent at Ungaretti & Harris, she has seen the firm through numerous phases of its marketing program. She manages the day-to-day workflow of Ungaretti's four-person marketing department and leads its PR function in addition to numerous other initiatives.
She first joined LMA Midwest in 1996.
Outside of the law firm environment she volunteers her time with Catholic Charities in Chicago. After serving as the Social Chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the Junior Board, she became a member of its Board of Advisors in 2006.
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President-Elect
Gary Young
Marketing Director
Freeborn & Peters LLP
gyoung@freebornpeters.com
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Gary Young is Marketing Director at Freeborn & Peters LLP, and serves as Creative Director on LMA Midwest's In The Loop newsletter.
Prior to joining F&P, Gary was President of X-15 Creative Marketing, an independent marketing and creative services agency offering marketing strategy, concept development, creative execution and consulting services.
Before founding X-15 in 2002, Gary served as Vice President, Director of Business Development at Leo Burnett in Chicago, and as Vice President/Creative at global ad agency Foote, Cone and Belding.
Gary is a nationally recognized watercolor painter and serves on the Advisory Board of the American Academy of Art. He serves on the Design Review Commission of the Village of LaGrange, and is Vice President and Board Member of Chicago's historic Tavern Club.
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Secretary
Megan McKeon
Marketing Director
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
mckeon@mbhb.com
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Megan M. McKeon, a licensed attorney, is the Marketing Director at IP law firm McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff, based in Chicago. She has been a member of the Chicago chapter since 2002. As a 2006 LMA Midwest Board Member-at-Large, Megan co-created and co-chaired the chapter's Young Members Group and planned several events for this group. She also chaired the 2007, 2008 and 2009 LMA Midwest Your Honor Awards and the 2007 Midwest Conference and served as co-chair of the 2009 Midwest Conference. She is active at the international level on the LMA Member Services Committee.
She is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2005) and Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame (B.B.A., Marketing and Finance, 2001). She currently attends DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., expected 2011).
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Treasurer
Andrea Crews
Business Development and Marketing Manager
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
acrews@lplegal.com
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Andrea Crews is the Business Development and Marketing Manager for Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC.
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Treasurer-Elect
Beth Massing
Marketing Manager
Freeborn & Peters LLP
bmassing@freebornpeters.com
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Beth Massing is the Marketing Manager at Freeborn & Peters LLP where she manages all marketing efforts of the Litigation Practice Group and the Women's Leadership Council.
Beth graduated with honors from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Business Administration, Marketing. Prior to Freeborn & Peters, she was a Business Development Manager at the mid-sized IP boutique Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione.
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Member-at-Large —
City Group Liaison
Kelly Sharpe
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
ksharpe@taftlaw.com
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Kelly Sharpe is a Marketing & Business Development Manager at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP and has been with Taft's Marketing Department since 2002. She is responsible for the Indianapolis office's marketing communication activities including internal and external communication, public relations, contributions and sponsorships, client entertainment and development, strategic planning and web site maintenance. In addition, she works with the four of the firm’s practice groups (IP, labor & employment, health & life sciences and environmental) and individual attorneys on practice development initiatives.
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Member-at-Large —
Marketing/Public Relations
Judith C. Truman
Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP
jtruman@marshallip.com
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Judith Truman is the Marketing Director at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, an intellectual property law firm in Chicago. Judith has been an active member of LMA since 1994. She was a member of the Northern Ohio Chapter for a number of years before relocating to Chicago. She has served as co-editor and contributing author to the Midwest Chapter’s newsletter, "In the Loop." |
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Member-at-Large —
Membership
Tasneem Goodman
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
tasneem.goodman@kattenlaw.com
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Tasneem K. Goodman is a partner and the Director of Marketing at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Based in the Chicago office, Ms. Goodman leads the firm’s marketing and business development team, which serves each of the firm’s domestic offices and its London affiliate. Ms. Goodman oversees all aspects of the firm’s marketing, business development, client relations, public relations and internal and external communications initiatives.
Ms. Goodman has spoken frequently on legal marketing and business development topics and has served as a source of commentary on these subjects to the media. Her legal marketing and business development work has won several awards, and she has quickly become recognized as a leader in her field.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Goodman practiced law in the corporate department of Latham & Watkins LLP, where she represented publicly-traded and privately-held companies in mergers, acquisitions and securities offerings, and in the restructuring group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she represented corporate debtors in bankruptcy planning, negotiation and litigation. Ms. Goodman graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, and she earned her Bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago. Ms. Goodman is admitted to practice law in Illinois.
Ms. Goodman is secretary of the Board of Directors of Latinos Progresando, a nonprofit organization that provides legal immigration services. She also serves as an advisor for Burhani Junior Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit program that provides entrepreneurship education for high school students.
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Member-at-Large —
Special Events
Julie O'Connor
Barack Ferrazzano
julie.oconnor@bfkn.com
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Julie O'Connor is the first-ever Director of Marketing for Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP. She has participated as a presenter at LMA monthly programming on occasion over the last few years. She also co-chairs the 2010 Midwest Chapter Your Honor Awards.
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Immediate Past President
Megan Wilroy
Marketing Project Manager
Foley & Lardner LLP
mwilroy@foley.com
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Megan Wilroy is the Marketing Project Manager at Foley & Lardner LLP. At Foley, Megan manages the Life Science and Nanotechnology Industry teams and the IP practice groups including client development and retention, sponsorships, seminars, RFPs and numerous other projects within the groups.
Prior to Foley, Megan served as the top marketing professional at the 70-attorney Chicago-based IP law firm, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP. While there, she developed and implemented firm wide individual marketing plans; drove and managed the firm wide coaching and marketing education program; initiated and lead a client loyalty initiative; as well as redeveloped the firm's Web site.
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