A Message from Your 2026 Northeast President Matthew Goffe

Dear LMA Northeast Members,

Following this season’s CMO and C-Suite forums in Boston and New York, June’s “Strength Through Collaboration” theme feels especially relevant. The conversations throughout both gatherings reinforced something essential about our profession: the strongest outcomes are rarely built in isolation. They emerge when people, perspectives, and disciplines work together toward a common goal.

That spirit of collaboration is increasingly important in today’s legal industry, particularly as legal marketing, business development, legal operations, and technology teams become more interconnected. The most effective firms are breaking down silos and recognizing that innovation is not owned by one department alone.

Few landmarks reflect this idea more clearly than Pittsburgh’s Three Sisters Bridges. Spanning the Allegheny River in parallel, the bridges are distinct in structure yet unified in purpose, creating strength not through duplication, but through coordination. Each bridge supports movement across the city while contributing to a larger connected system — an apt reflection of how modern professional services teams operate at their best.

Like the Three Sisters Bridges, strong collaboration depends on balance, trust, and intentional connection. Legal marketers bring insight into client engagement and positioning. Legal operations teams bring process and infrastructure. Technology teams bring the tools that enable firms to adapt and grow. Individually, each function is valuable. Together, they create something far more effective than any one team could accomplish alone.

This is the work we continue to build toward: creating stronger connections across teams, offices, and disciplines, and recognizing that meaningful progress is rarely the result of a single perspective. Like the Three Sisters Bridges, we are strongest when we move together distinctly in unified in purpose and connected by the collaboration that carries us forward.