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Celebrating Past WinnersYour Honor Awards 2014

• Advertising – Campaign

First Place – Burr & Forman LLP

Runner-Up – MKRS Law

• City Group of the Year (tie)

Atlanta

Raleigh

• Community Relations

First Place – Adams & Reese LLP

Runner-Up – McAngus Goudelock & Courie

Honorable Mention – Fowler White Burnett, P.A.

• Events

First Place – Moore & Van Allen

Honorable Mention – Adams & Reese LLP

• Identity – More Than $20,000

First Place – Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Runner-Up – McAngus Goudelock & Courie

• Marketing on a Shoestring – Large Firm

First Place – McGuireWoods LLP

• Media Relations Campaign

First Place – Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

• Member of the Year

Anna Brinkley Hedgepeth

• Practice Development

First Place – Kelley Kronenberg

Honorable Mention – Adams & Reese LLP

Honorable Mention – Moore & Van Allen

• Promotional & Collateral Materials – Holiday Card

Honorable Mention – Fisher & Phillips LLP

• Social / Interactive Media

Honorable Mention – Burr & Forman LLP

• Website – Individual Portion

First Place – Stearns Weaver Miller

• Website – Total Overhaul/Refresh/Rebrand

First Place – Kelley Kronenberg

Runner-Up – Phelps Dunbar

Honorable Mention – Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

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2015 Awards Judges .........................................................................................................4

2015 Your Honor Awards ......................................................................................... 5–17

• Community Relations .............................................................................................5

• Events ..........................................................................................................................6

• Identity — Projects Totaling More Than $20,000 .........................................7

• Identity — Projects Totaling Up to $20,000 ....................................................8

• Marketing on a Shoestring ...................................................................................9

• Media Relations Campaigns .............................................................................. 10

• Practice Development .........................................................................................11

• Promotional and Collateral Materials — Newsletters/Alerts ...................12

• Social/Interactive Media......................................................................................13

• Website — Individual Portions of Website ....................................................14

• Website — Total Website ....................................................................................15

• Judges Award ........................................................................................................ 16

• Honorable Mentions.............................................................................................17

• Member of the Year / City Group of the Year .............................................. 18

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Laurie Paul

Senior Business Development Manager

Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Katie Munroe

Marketing and Client Development

Litigation Lead

Covington & Burling LLP

Sarah Gaston

Business Development and Marketing

Technology Coordinator

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Kirsten Beecher

Senior Client Services Manager

Allen Matkins

Michelle Friends

Marketing Director

Fairfield and Woods, P.C.

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COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Kelley Kronenberg

Over the last decade, the sport

of triathlon has seen explosive

growth, with triathlons becoming

the executive’s sport of choice. The

challenges facing a triathlete are

much like challenges of executive

leadership. Overall, the triathlete

community is comprised of senior

level executives and business owners

who share common characteristics of

a heightened competitive spirit, self-

driven motivation and the constant

pursuit of their personal best. Since

the firm opened its doors in 1980, it

has always made charitable giving and

community service a priority. Kelley

Kronenberg’s Principal Partner and

Chief Financial Officer, Heath Eskalyo, is

the head of firm philanthropic efforts.

He is also a Sprint, Olympic, 70.3 and

Ironman triathlete.

Strategically, the firm knew it wanted to capitalize on the sport’s growth, develop business relationships with the executives and business owners who embody the average triathlete, and continue to commit to civic and charitable efforts as good corporate citizens – all without appearing self-serving. The firm’s Marketing Department decided that creating a charitable organization for triathletes was the next logical step in using the sport to develop business for the firm and make positive changes in the community.

In January of 2015, TriSharks, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was formed. By giving athletes a purpose beyond their own accomplishment, TriSharks inspires triathletes to fundraise for selected charity partners as a way

Kelley Kronenberg Community Relations – TriSharks Nonprofit Organization

May Tour Dates

11th - Palm Beach County

12th - Broward County

13th & 14th Miami Dade County

15th - Broward County

National Physical Fitness and Sports Awareness Month

Florida Tour to InspireMay 11th - 15th, 2015

Presented by

Topics Covered:Bullying

Helping OthersPhysical Fitness

Anything is PossibleBuilding Confidence

Overcoming ObstaclesAccepting our Differences

Empowering & inspiring students

at a school near you!

to add meaning to their training and racing. Additionally, it enables members to develop business relationships on a unique level with like-minded athletes. TriSharks’ drive, motivation, competitiveness and commitment to bettering the community, align perfectly with the principles embodied by the firm.

TRISHARKS MISSION STATEMENT:

To help members grow professionally through tactical business development strategies and networking opportunities, to make a difference in our communities through consistent philanthropic efforts, and to remain dedicated to the sport through active participation in triathlons.

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EVENTS

Adams and Reese LLP

Adams and Reese wanted to build a client event around the Astrodome’s 50th anniversary and specifically target Construction and Real Estate clients in Houston.

Citizens of Harris County (Houston) recently voted on a proposition relating to the fate of the Astrodome, and its future was a hot topic in Houston. Also, we thought that a program that centered around the design and construction of the world’s first indoor domed stadium would appeal specifically to real estate developers, architects, project engineers, construction managers and others within the Houston business community.

Our goal was very simple: leverage the public’s general interest in the Astrodome to create an event where our firm’s Construction and Real Estate lawyers could form new relationships

with prospective clients, enhance relationships with current clients, and generate new work for them and for the firm.

In August, our Business Development Manager in Houston read the review of a book that chronicled the construction of the Astrodome and immediately contacted the author Jim Gast. We discussed our goals and various ideas with him, and we decided to host an evening cocktail reception at which Mr. Gast would deliver a presentation about the construction of the Astrodome and its significance in the mid-century development of Houston.

Our venue was the Hofheinz House, the former residence of Roy Hofheinz who served as the mayor of Houston during the construction and the opening of the Dome. In fact, our event took place in the exact room

Adams and Reese Presents “Construction in Houston: Then and Now” where Mayor Hofheinz and county officials negotiated the contracts for the construction of the stadium.

At the conclusion of Mr. Gast’s presentation, we held an informal book signing and provided a copy of his book to each of our attendees. We worked with our Construction and Real Estate attorneys in identifying the appropriate clients, prospective clients and referral sources to invite. We created a unique electronic invitation that resonated with the audience. The invitation had an Astrodome “look” to it, as its colors were yellow, orange and red.

These colors corresponded to the seating tiers inside the stadium. Within the invitation, we included a link that took the recipients to a page on our website where they could read interesting facts and data about the Astrodome.20

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IDENTITY – PROJECTS TOTALING MORE THAN $20,000

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

With 140 lawyers, Constangy ranked

smallest of the six major employment

law firms. Business was great and the

Executive Committee (EC) wanted to

keep it that way – in a competitive

category while maintaining the firm’s

culture. With a lawyer expansion plan

in the works, the EC asked marketing

to build a new brand with an added

name on the door and a new key

differentiator.

The four-person marketing team

had an aggressive timeline of just

five months. If the plan succeeded,

the firm’s headcount would bump

up 15% with laterals from a wide

range of firms and backgrounds.

But competing on size wasn’t the

objective – Constangy wanted

to take a bold step in its 70-year

history, respond to client needs, and

differentiate on “top-down” diversity.

Data supported the strategy. RFPS require diverse teams. GC panels highlight the benefits of multicultural viewpoints. Client surveys rank diversity high. Then to the surprise of all, research suggested the firm would be the first in the NLJ350 to have an African-American named partner.

Changing the firm name meant that practically everything needed to be revamped at once: a new logo and tagline; new looks for the website, blog, advertising, social media platforms, and mobile app. Updated letterhead, business cards, brochures, newsletters, and presentation templates. New promotional swag and trade show exhibits. A new style guide and proposal resource center to help attorneys hit the ground running.

Over five months, the marketing team worked with a nine-lawyer

Launching a new brand: A wider lens on workplace law

task force on the creative approach

and with eight vendors to produce

deliverables. Work had to be done

under strictest confidentiality.

Care was given to create messages

that carried the right tone. The firm

drew from its progressive roots in

the employment law arena: a woman

partner in the 1940s (when only 3%

of lawyers were women); a named

partner who served on the ABA’s first

EEOC committee; the firm’s founder,

a pro-management groundbreaker

in the early labor union movement.

For the firm to blaze new paths in

diversity was a natural step in its

evolution.

The ideal tag line would drive it all.

Marketers assessed tag lines for 400

firms and logos for 200. Ultimately,

Constangy’s new tag line was simple,

referenced the firm’s expertise,

alluded to its differentiation without

being “in your face,” and lent itself

well to visuals: A wider lens on

workplace law.

To announce the expansion and

new brand to HR execs, corporate

counsel, and the legal community,

the team chose a video and email

announcement. The video featured

the firm chairman (founder’s

grandson), a female EC member, and

the new named partner. It allowed the

firm’s heart to shine through in a way

words on a page could not. The video

also graced the rebranded website

and social media. A comprehensive

media training and outreach effort

complemented the announcement.

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IDENTITY – PROJECTS TOTALING UP TO $20,000

Kelley Kronenberg

Last year, the Kelley Kronenberg Marketing Department completed a firm-wide rebranding initiative to showcase the firm’s expanded geographic presence, diversified practice area focus, and philosophy - a firm built on relationships. From the external rebranding, the number of new employees, as well as the number of lateral acquisitions joining the firm, increased.

To complement the external rebrand and continue to drive the cultural shift taking place internally, the Marketing Department decided to internally brand the firm to new hires and existing employees. We wanted to ensure that employees understand the “who” and “why” behind our business and culture; we endeavored to create a video that showcases our people, and ultimately answer, “What makes Kelley Kronenberg different?”

In order to reach our intended goals, we spent three months researching and analyzing the best practices to

Kelley Kronenberg: Welcome Video

utilize. We decided that a welcome video would be the most effective and powerful medium to share the firm culture.

With authenticity being the most crucial component of the video, and our culture of putting our “people first,” we selected key firm personnel to interview. Our concept was that unscripted dialogue, developed through an interview exchange, would highlight each person’s true feelings of the firm culture and their personal experiences.

We spent approximately three weeks developing content and questions that would be used to extract the talking points from the interviewees. Our video shoot production was conducted over four days, in three cities. It involved a broad range of backdrop and b-roll footage to complement the interview portions of the video. The video editing, which included logging of footage, footage selection, editing, graphics and audio

selection continued for three weeks post production.

This welcome video is intended as an internal marketing piece and will be part of a series that will have a more comprehensive distribution strategy and reach out to a broader audience. Our future plans for distribution for the remaining videos in the series includes our firm’s website and social media platforms.

This is a recently completed project. We have not had sufficient time to show the video to our target audience (new hires), and only a limited number of current employees have viewed the video. It was shown to our Managing Partner prior to release. His reaction solidified our ultimate goal – to authentically and effectively communicate the evolution of the firm’s culture. Upon viewing the video, he stated that it “significantly exceeded all expectations!”

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MARKETING ON A SHOESTRING

Baker Donelson

Communicating in the Moment

Baker Donelson’s Marketing and Business Development Department (MBDD) created an internal program titled, “Communicating in the Moment” to prepare the Marketing and Business Development Department (MBDD) team members to communicate effectively with others in order to achieve their marketing and business development objectives through established best practices. The program served to educate MBDD members about processes and best practices employed across the department, and how to ask probing questions and respond

with key information during initial

conversations with attorneys and staff.

They achieved this by creating videos

of team members acting out satirical

skits drawn from real-life examples,

PowerPoint karaoke, a Communicating

in the Moment quick reference card

and stress-release dice. Through this

program, Baker Donelson’s MBDD

team members were positioned for

successful interactions with others

and established firmly as the authority

on legal marketing and business

development with their colleagues.

Through this program, Baker Donelson’s MBDD team members were positioned for successful interactions with others and established firmly as the authority on legal marketing and business development with their colleagues.

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MEDIA RELATIONS CAMPAIGNS

Motley Rice LLC

One of the nation’s largest plaintiffs firms, Motley Rice LLC represents people who have been injured or worse by alleged corporate misconduct. When news of major issues and injuries related to Takata airbags surfaced – airbags used in the majority of cars today – Motley Rice realized the need to take a leadership role and help victims of the faulty airbags. Through attention-getting media relations and online and offline communications efforts to an estimated 140 million people, Motley Rice was able to raise increased awareness about the issue, help to achieve an increased recall and earn the ability to represent 10 victims of this dangerous vehicle product recall.

Taking on Takata in the massive airbag recall

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PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT

Kelley Kronenberg

Last year, the firm launched a

comprehensive business development

program designed to build

relationships and ultimately generate

new business. This year, two key

aspects of the firm’s plan were to

assist associates with training that

recognizes their unique abilities and to

identify firm practice areas that need

revitalization to continue to contribute

to the firm’s growth. Specifically, our

goals were to:

1. Ascertain the best, promising, and

most innovative associates who

are adept at marketing and want

to grow,

2. To pinpoint practice areas and help

them gain traction,

3. Identify and maintain relationships

with potential clients and referral

sources, and

4. Provide one-on-one guidance to

associates.

To reach our goals, we spent

three months developing trusting

relationships with associates. We

took time to analyze and evaluate the

associate’s background and to candidly

learn about their career desires,

interests, and aptitudes- all before

business development strategies were

discussed. We also researched and

identified practice areas in the firm to

develop, diversify and expand.

We discovered that the mortgage

banking industry and related practice

Kelley Kronenberg: Investing Today in Tomorrow’s Leaders, Practice Development and Associate Development

areas were on the decline. Internal analysis revealed that foreclosure litigation was no longer a firm revenue-generating hotspot like it had been in previous years. We needed to diversify and expand the breadth of services in this practice area, or this area would cease to exist. We evaluated all key considerations before authorizing the practice development. The associate with the greatest potential and strongest desire to develop business in this area was a little professionally unrefined, but we desired to help him succeed.

To implement our plan, we assisted the attorney in researching and learning about each prospects’ business, and assisted in drafting personalized, practical business development emails. We conducted several mock prospect meetings, and helped him optimize internal cross-selling opportunities. We intensively coached this attorney on tidying up his appearance, honing his body language, polishing his mannerisms, and enhancing his attire.

Unlike most business development coaching plans, our program enables attorneys to continually meet for routine coaching sessions to provide structure and keeps business development on track. Further, our key strategy was to focus on developing/strengthening pre-existing relationships with client contacts in lower to middle roles, who are the players responsible for delivering results and often persuade management’s business decisions. of a longer development pathway, associates will have a greater incentive to develop business for the firm.

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What is the Bottom Line? It’s everything our client needs to know on a specific legal hot topic of interest all presented in under 5 minutes. Oh yes, one more thing—it’s a video. Sutherland differentiates itself from other law firms by delivering under 5 minute videos to client email boxes on issues important to them.

This project entailed the implementation of business development videos on sutherland.com, creation of processes to shoot/cut video, new collateral for distribution, analytics, and an ongoing marketing campaign.

We wanted to make it easier for our clients to view content we published for them and spend more time on our website while digesting additional

content beyond our videocasts. We

wanted the videocasts to peak interest

with the client who would then further

explore sutherland.com for other

information—biographies, practice

profiles, articles, experience and legal

alerts. Videos are not used much in

the legal space but it was extremely

important for us to implement them

correctly and for the benefit of our

clients.

That meant conducting a tremendous

amount of A/B testing on our part to

determine where loss of interest and

drop-off rates occurred, developing a

cost-effective layout to easily produce

videos on a monthly basis in all of our

offices, and having quick turn- around

times to deliver the videos to our

clients.

Videocasts! The Bottom Line—All You Need to Know in Under 5 Minutes

PROMOTIONAL AND COLLATERAL MATERIALS – NEWSLETTERS/ALERTS

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Videos are not used much in the legal space but it

was extremely important for us to implement them

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SOCIAL/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Ogletree Deakins

Ogletree Deakins’ annual Workplace

Strategies seminar is the premier

labor and employment law event

of its kind for sophisticated human

resources professionals, in-house

counsel, and other business leaders.

The 2015 Workplace Strategies

seminar welcomed 800 guests and

clients for four days of programming

that included more than 75 sessions

featuring 200 speakers focused on

providing employers solutions to

cutting edge labor and employment

law topics.

To enhance attendees’ experience

during Workplace Strategies,

Ogletree Deakins partnered with

DoubleDutch to develop a mobile

app. The Workplace Strategies app

was designed and developed for

iOS, Android, and HTML5 platforms

enabling attendees to download and

access the app regardless of mobile device type.

The app’s features allowed attendees to customize and create their own agenda, send messages to and network with fellow attendees, connect with Ogletree Deakins attorneys, access social media sites, and receive up-to-the-minute seminar information—all with the touch of a button. Attendees engaged with the seminar hosts and fellow attendees in the activity feed by sharing their thoughts and comments, posting photos and status updates, checking in to sessions, liking various items, and completing surveys for the sessions.

The activity feed and gamification capabilities were key differentiators that made the Workplace Strategies app stand apart from others, they

Workplace Strategies Mobile App

were utilized to encourage usage of the app and drive attendees’ participation with the seminar through their mobile device.

The firm’s marketing department developed an engagement strategy to incentivize attendees to download the app and encourage usage. The goal was to create an attendee-led community during the event, leveraging the app as the centerpiece and utilizing the activity feed and gamification features as key differentiators from other mobile apps built for events. This was accomplished by creating a user’s guide within the app, assigning point totals for various actions taken by attendees, and creating messages and calls to action that were delivered as promoted posts on the activity feed or as push notifications to an attendee’s device.

The results far exceed expectations. Attendees indeed created a community around the event using the Workplace Strategies app as their method of choice. Attendees performed a total of 123,717 actions in the app (250 actions per user); posted more than 550 photos; provided more than 600 comments; gave more than 1,100 status updates; completed nearly 200 surveys; and liked more than 7,400 items.

The mobile app was launched one month before Workplace Strategies and was $5,000 under budget. The app delivered on the goals of enhancing the attendee experience and creating a community. In fact, several attendees posted status updates upon their return home from Workplace Strategies.

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WEBSITE – INDIVIDUAL PORTIONS OF WEBSITE

Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP

The Workers’ Compensation Practice Group of Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (CSH Law) launched a website to provide free tools and resources for workers’ compensation information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Launched in November, the site includes workers’ compensation resources such as a blog, E-Alerts for updates on workers’ compensation law, a listing of continuing education courses and references including a downloadable copy of the NC Workers’ Comp 2014 Quick Reference Guide.

Anyone visiting the website has free

access to the Public Level Calculators

which include a date forecaster,

week calculator, and present value

calculator.

Additionally, anyone visiting the

website can set-up an account and

access the Login Level Calculators

for a 30-day trial period. CSH Law

clients have permanent access to the

Login Level Workers’ Compensation

Calculators.

CSH Law Workers’ Compensation Micro-Site

The Login Level Calculators provide assistance in calculating the following:

• Life expectancy

• Average weekly wage and comp rate

• Temporary total disability (TTD) payments

• Permanent total disability (PTD) payments

• Permanent partial disability (PPD) calculations

• Temporary partial disability (TPD) payments

• Death benefits

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WEBSITE — TOTAL WEBSITE

Motley Rice LLC

Motley Rice needed a website that

was representative of its strong

national brand and reputation and

that effectively encouraged potential

clients to contact the firm. The current

website was severely outdated from

a design and content perspective.

More significantly, the site was not

responsive, greatly limiting the ability

to be searched, and, the Google

imperative that sites be mobile-

friendly by April 2015, was now a

requirement. The new MotleyRice.com

launched on April 29, 2015, and has

already increased visitors per month

by 80%, increased time on site by 17%

and better communicates the brand,

reputation and client-centric approach

of the firm.

New MotleyRice.com Responsive Website

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ADDITIONAL AWARD WINNERS

Taylor English Duma LLP

Website — Total Website Taylor English Website Redesign

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HONORABLE MENTION

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPThe Parker Poe Path

Website — Individual Portions of Website

HONORABLE MENTION

Bilzin SumbergSpanish-language Blog, Nuevo Miami, Positions Bilzin Sumberg as the Go-To Firm for Latin American Investors in Miami

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Honorable Mention

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LMASE Board MembersBrook RedmondPresidentBaker Donelson

Nikki SherrillPresident-Elect Jones Day

Jill HusePast President Society 54

Jackie SpiveySecretaryPoyner Spruill LLP

Laura MurrayTreasurer Bilzin Sumberg

Erin MolinaroDirector of Membership Carruthers & Roth, P.A.

Jennifer GriffinDirector of Communications and Social Media Ellis & Winters LLP

Ioana GoodDirector of City GroupsLowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.

Amy NorrisDirector of SponsorshipsMcGuireWoods LLP

Anne ZambranoDirector of ProgrammingTrenam

Stephanie HinrichsDirector of Special ProjectsWomble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP

Member of the Year – Shannon Lanier

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Shannon is an enthusiastic member of LMASE, promoting the profession, as well as the organization. Shannon worked in marketing with Ticketmaster Entertainment and joined a law firm (her current employer) Ward & Smith in 2011 where she works as a Communications Coordinator. Shannon soon after joined LMASE and became active in the Raleigh/Triad City Group even though she has to travel from out of town to join the group. Shannon has helped nurture the Raleigh/Triad City Group sponsorship program as the sponsorship chair has been on maternity leave for a portion of the year. She has reached out to prospective sponsors and solidified relationships with our current sponsors.

Shannon is warm and friendly and makes an excellent first impression. She never forgets a name or face, so when the new members show up at a meeting in the following months, she is great about making them feel welcome. She has really grown as a leader during this year and she’s the biggest cheerleader for LMA, LMASE and the Raleigh/Triad City Group! Her role as cheerleader is exemplified by the photos of LMASE Raleigh/Triad City Group or LMASE events that she has on her personal LinkedIn profile. The Raleigh/Triad City Group feels fortunate to have Shannon as their City Group Chair!

Shannon LanierCommunications Coordinator

Ward and Smith, P.A. New Bern, NC

Raleigh Triad City Group Chair

City Group of the Year – Atlanta City GroupThis year, the Atlanta City Group has continued the upward momentum from 2014, facilitating high-level programs, hosting social events for members, and encouraging involvement from their membership of nearly 100 new and seasoned legal marketers. In 2014, the Atlanta City Group was honored to be co-named “LMASE City Group of the Year” with the Raleigh/Triad City Group. The Atlanta City Group remained committed to receiving the title again in 2015. They focused on providing high-level high-quality programs aimed at re-engaging the senior-level marketers, business development professionals and CMOs in Atlanta and beyond.

• ChairChris Sizemore, Co-Founder and CEO at Creative Mischief

• ProgrammingRyan King, Director of Communications at Ogletree Deakins

• MembershipJoey Powell, Account Executive at Atlanta Business Chronicle

Emily Woods, Events Coordinator at King & Spalding Raleigh

• EventsChristina Walsh, Marketing Manager at Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP Macy Omer, Marketing Coordinator at Fields Howell LLP

• Community EngagementAugust Trammell, Practice Development Manager at Greenberg Traurig, LLP

• CommunicationsElizabeth Ramsey, Client Communications Manager at Burr & Forman, LLP

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