We are fortunate that in our LMA community there are many ways to recognize and share our achievements including award recognition at the regional level. In the Mid-Atlantic Region, a top priority of our board is to cultivate our community. One of our Board of Directors’ 2017 strategic goals is to “Cultivate a community culture throughout the Mid-Atlantic region that embraces the ideals of One LMA, reinforces a consistent National LMA experience, and serves the needs of its members and the profession.”
In alignment with our Board of Directors overarching strategic goals, our region’s advocacy committee, led by Azeema Mohaideen Batchelor and Kara Kane, decided that it was a priority to recognize excellence in our region. One of the Advocacy Committee’s strategic goals is to “recognize excellence in our field.” Aligned with that goal is their objective: “execution (in conjunction with local steering committees) of the Your Honor Awards.”
Based on response to our region’s member feedback, they also created the following goals for our region’s Your Honor Awards
- Recognize excellence in legal marketing and business development strategies
- Recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to LMA and the legal marketing industry
- Educate our members about innovative strategies in legal marketing and business development
- Bring together/unite the entire region in one program
Their awards program’s objectives are
- A diverse cross section of our membership is represented in the entries (representing each of our local groups)
- Multiple nominations for each category
- Articles/social media posts about the winners produced for membership communication
I hope you can join us on September 26th to recognize the extraordinary efforts of our region’s members when we host our LMA Mid-Atlantic Region Your Honor Awards. For the first time since regionalization, we will come together as a community via video from all three of our region’s locals to showcase innovation, best practices, collaboration with service partners, and raising the bar for what we can do to continually challenge ourselves to be better and do more in our chosen profession. We will be celebrating each other and our contributions to the legal marketing profession and community.
If you would like to talk about our mission and strategic goals, and share your perspective on the Your Honor Awards, you are welcome to reach out to us:
Helena Lawrence, LMA Mid-Atlantic Region President
Debbie Leitner, LMA Mid-Atlantic Region President-elect
Azeema Mohaideen Batchelor, LMA Mid-Atlantic Region Advocacy Committee Co-chair and Secretary
Kara Kane, Advocacy Committee Co-chair and Treasurer-Elect
Mid-Atlantic Region Board of Directors
I look forward to celebrating our region and our members with you.
Helena M. Lawrence
LMA Mid-Atlantic Region President
E: hlawrence@orrick.com
P: 202.339.8429
By Helena Lawrence, 2017 LMA Mid-Atlantic Region President, Senior Marketing & Business Development Manager, Orrick for the July/August 2017 LMA Mid-Atlantic Region Newsletter