Member Spotlight: Leo Strupczewski

This month's edition includes a LMA 2012 conference recap asking legal marketers, "what if?", info on upcoming programs across the state, member spotlight featuring Alexis Dankovich and other hot topics: http://bit.ly/HT0MWf.

The Nominating sub-committee of LMA's Governance Committee has begun its annual process of determining the slate of candidates to fill open seats on the LMA international board of directors. Learn more if you are interested in serving on the Board (i.e., self-nominate), or nominating others for service.

The Legal Marketing Association is thrilled to offer full results of its latest research — Roles and Compensation Survey: A benchmarking survey of in-house legal marketing careers and compensation.

The LMA-ACC Advisory Council is working with The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) to promote the ACC Value Champions initiative to recognize law firm and law department leaders who have implemented value-based pricing and related management practices advocated as part of the ACC Value Challenge. 

The diminishing of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP continues, with a fleet of about 50 of the firm’s European lawyers moving over to Greenberg Traurig.

Legislation, both state and federal, prohibiting employers from requesting an employee's or applicant's password continues to make progress. 

Chicago firm Baker & McKenzie LLP reports a 7.7 percent revenue jump, to $2.27 billion. The average gross revenue increase across the AmLaw 100 was 6 percent.

In the burgeoning world of eDiscovery, the development of new technology-assisted-review tools is opening up the ways in which documents, data and other electronically stored information can be gathered and evaluated. Some lawyers are arguing that some eDiscovery tools should be mandatory.

On June 29, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 issued its initial report on proposed changes governing lawyers' use of technology for marketing and advertising.