Each month our Membership Chair, Nadine Levin from the Boston Business Journal sits down with an LMA New England member to find out more about what makes them tick.

How did you get into Legal Marketing?

By accident - though I have usually been involved in some type of sales or marketing through most of my working life, I never did any work with law firms or the legal industry until now.

 My cousin was working as a legal assistant at Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers a few years ago, and she broke her leg during the same time the firm was moving from the Financial District to its present location in the Back Bay.  My favor of helping her out with the move grew into the larger task of actually assisting the entire firm, setting things up, some logistics, etc.  Based on that, I was then offered (and accepted) a full-time operational role at the firm, including supervising the legal assistants and working directly with the attorneys and support staff.  I enjoyed working at the firm, and when the marketing position opened up, I went after it - and I still continue in a significant operational role, as well (you learn to wear many hats in this business).

Biggest Challenge you face each day? 

Getting the attorneys to do what they're supposed to do, and/or actually doing what they say they'll do…

Motto to live by?

Live it up now, don't hold back, try to do everything and anything, see the world, chase your dreams - life is short and we only get one shot at it...

Pet peeve?

Liars and hypocrites

Who inspires you the most?

My grandfather, Al Turco

What is your favorite restaurant?

Twin Oaks in Providence, RI

What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

A box of baking soda, a bottle of Champagne, maybe some left-overs (cooked by somebody else)

What is your favorite drink?

Non-Alcoholic = Cranberry Juice 

Alcoholic = Champagne 

What is the last book you read?

"The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey"

If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be?

James Bond

What was the last movie you went to see?

Star Trek

What is your favorite movie?

Citizen Kane

What movie star would you pick to play yourself in a movie? 

Al Pacino

Favorite person to talk to? 

at work:  Chris Hunt (our firm's IT Director) 

outside work:  my best friend, Jeff Dorion (we owned and ran a couple of pizza and sub shops in college, then later a yacht delivery service and travel agency - we're always considering ideas for businesses, new inventions, books, etc.)

If you were to have lunch with anyone, who would it be?  (dead or alive)  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle