Sincere thanks for all your positive comments on “CI.” Please continue to let us know what you know regarding promotions, job changes, awards, marriages, births, and whatever you think our chapter colleagues would like to know — but nothing scandalous! Wait — forget that. We’ll listen to anything!
Congratulations!
Beverly Loder, marketing director at Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP, and former editor of In the Loop, has been elected as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. The College is a "professional, educational and honorary organization formed in 1994 to honor and recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards of achievement for others in the profession, and to fund and assist projects that enhance the highest quality of law practice management.” Fellows are elected in recognition of their outstanding contributions and sustained commitment to the highest standards of professionalism in law practice management. Way to go, Bev! Send a “high five” to Bev at bloder@fitcheven.com.
Big congrats to Amy Jean, director of marketing and business development at Goldberg Kohn and chair of the LMA Midwest Membership Committee. Amy was presented with the Rising Star of 2013 award at this year’s Your Honor Awards. And, congrats to me, Sydney Iglitzen! I am so thrilled to be inducted into the LMA Midwest Hall of Fame. I join Marcie Johnson, Nancy Roberts Linder, Donna Shaft, Mike Ralston, Ross Fishman and Joy Long. What a stellar group. Sincere and heartfelt thanks to the LMA Midwest Board, my wonderful LMA colleagues and friends for this fabulous honor. It is such a joy to have you all in my life every day. Send your best to Amy at amy.jean@goldbergkohn.com and I will always respond to my LMA buddies at siglitzen@netzero.net.
Sincere thanks to my YHA co-chairs, Joy Long and Megan McKeon, for making this year's YHA such a great success and for being absolutely wonderful to work with. We've been a team for a few YHAs and each one has been a delight. I love you guys. Thanks so much for your hard work on behalf of the chapter.
New Ventures
Wow! Congrats to a longtime LMA member and former LMA Midwest Membership Committee chair, Katherine Miletich, formerly director of marketing at Sidley & Austin, now director of marketing at Vedder Price. Katherine joins a wonderful marketing and business development team. Wish Katherine the very best at kmiletich@vedderprice.com.
Ashley Galston, past LMA Midwest Board member and formerly regional marketing and BD manager at Seyfarth Shaw, has joined K&L Gates as global BD manager. Say hello to Ashley at ashley.galston@klgates.com.
Great news from Beth Massing, former LMA Midwest Treasurer extraordinaire, who was practice group manager at Freeborn & Peters. Beth is now marketing manager in the Chicago office of Dykema Gossett joining Frank Johnson, Senior Business Development Manager. Send good wishes to Beth at bmassing@dykema.com.
Milwaukee City Group co-chair, Pagette Fischer, formerly senior marketing project manager at Foley & Lardner, has become the director of marketing and business development Davis & Kuelthau. Pagette welcomes her new team member, Brandy Riley, marketing coordinator, and hopefully soon to be a new LMA member, to the firm. Say hello to Pagette at pfischer@dkattorneys.com.
Robin Iori, formerly principal at Iori Communications, has gone in-house at Holland & Knight as public relations manager, joining the firm’s great marketing and BD team and long time LMA Midwest members. Send Robin your best at robin.iori@hklaw.com.
Former chair of the Young Members Group of LMA Midwest, Gretchen Materna, and former U.S. marketing manager in Chicago at Canadian firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon for several years, has moved over to Perkins Coie where she is now the client relations manager. You can reach Gretchen at gmaterna@perkinscoie.com.
LMA Midwest member Ted Benken moves fast! Ted was a Business Development Consultant here in Chicago, joining longtime LMA member, Joyce Simon, at Quarles & Brady and previously was a BD manager at Vedder Price. Ted is now global practice development manager at Winston & Strawn in San Francisco. Lucky duck! Say hello to Ted at tbenken@winston.com.
From our St. Louis City Group, Maureen Farr, LMA Midwest Board member and business development manager at Husch Blackwell tells us that Paul Atkinson has joined the firm as a business development manager. Welcome Paul at paul.atkinson@huschblackwell.com.
Jane Fletcher, formerly marketing manager special projects at K&L Gates, has left that firm and is seeking new opportunities as a marketing or creative services manager. Send job opps to Jane at jefstudio@sbcglobal.net.
Debbie Shelist, formerly marketing coordinator at Bryce Downey & Lenkov, has left that firm and is also seeking new job opportunities. Debbie can be reached at dshelist@gmail.com.
Welcome to new LMA Midwest member Michael Rand, formerly events and public relations manager at Bowman and Brooke in Minneapolis, now communications manager at Vedder Price. Michael is no stranger to LMA. He has been a member of the MN Chapter since 2009. In 2010, he served on the programming committee and in 2011, served on the Board of Directors as chair of the Programming Committee. Michael tells us “After nearly 12 years of continuous travel to Chicago, I decided it was time to make a permanent move to the Windy City. Vedder Price welcomed me into the fold and it was the smartest decision I’ve made for my career yet. I’m loving every minute of working with my new team.” Send a big Chicago welcome to Michael at mrand@vedderprice.com.
Mergers
It’s been a slow season for engagements and marriage. Come on, you guys, let’s get going here!
Acquisitions
Exciting times for Ashley Galston and husband, Steven McCarty. First baby, Sloane Catherine McCarty, arrived on December 6, 2012. Ashley admits that they are adjusting to sleepless nights and early mornings. Congrats to the Galston-McCarty family and all our warm wishes for a wonderful life.
More baby news… There are several “buns in the proverbial oven” among our LMA Midwest colleagues. But we’ll just have to wait until they are fully baked and ready! We are all anxiously awaiting great news which should be forthcoming any day now..
Snippets
Paulette Yanow, CMO at SmithAmundsen, has expanded her team with the addition of Sarah Drake, marketing coordinator, and Emily Kupec, marketing assistant, who join LMA Member Sara Kornaus, BD and marketing manager at the firm. We look forward to Sarah and Emily joining LMA Midwest real soon.
We recently met Jason Klika, new marketing coordinator at Bryce Downey & Lenkov, at a monthly program. He’s not a member yet, but we hope to scoop him up soon.
We hear that Chris Sims has returned to Freeborn & Peters as a BD manager working with the fabulous Ian Turvill.
One of our favorite people, Joe Melnick, formerly CMO at Butzel Long, Bloomfield Hills, MI, has joined LMA Midwest president-elect, Programming guru and BD operations strategist, Rich Marsolais, at Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, as strategic BD program advisor.
Well, that’s all the scoop for now. Please send any enlightening items worthy of note to the “I” at siglitzen@netzero.net.
2013 Hall of Famer, Sydney Iglitzen, was the 2008 President of LMA Midwest, sat on the 2011 and 2012 Board of Directors as Member-at-Large and will continue as Member-at-Large for 2013. She was formerly the first Director of Marketing & Business for a litigation boutique and now consults on BD, marketing and public relations for law firms. Sydney was also the LMA Chicago Program Chair for several years, initiating programming in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and SE Michigan and former Chair of the PR Committee. She is a member of the LMA Midwest and LMA International Membership Committees, a member of the LMA Midwest Programs Committee and was a member of the Careers in Transitions Task Force and has been a Your Honor Awards co-chair for the past few years.