CHICAGO, IL, July 22, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Law firm marketers, partners and associates have until July 31 - only two weeks -- to enter the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year Awards, sponsored by Originate!, the monthly business development newsletter, in association with Legal Sales and Services Organization (LSSO).
"We want to recognize the business development accomplishments of lawyers who have applied themselves to make it happen," said editor-in-chief Barry Schneider. "And we want our readers to learn from those who have been particularly successful this past year."
Lawyers, firms, marketing specialists, recruiters and advisors can find the entry forms at http://bit.ly/KhLZ4. The newsletter is now soliciting entries for top business-getters in five categories:
1. Associate
2. Small firm lawyer (30 or fewer lawyers)
3. Partner - transactions
4. Partner - litigator
5. Woman Lawyer
Anyone can submit an entry on behalf of a top rainmaker they know in one of these categories, and there is no entry fee this year. The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 31, 2009. To get an entry form, click http://bit.ly/YPpjx. Winners will have an interview published in the newsletter, receive a handsome award for display in their offices, plus gain publicity in nationally distributed press releases.
Submissions will be judged by a panel of independent judges with expertise in legal business development that has been assembled by the Legal Sales and Service Organization (LSSO).
Elizabeth Cuzzone, a Co-Founder of LSSO, is Director of Business Development for the award-winning law firm Goulston & Storrs in Boston. She said, "With sales and marketing now so critical to the careers of individual lawyers and the vitality of law firms, we know how important it is for the best to be recognized and share what they do."
To see the 2008 winners, and read their stories, go to http://bit.ly/10ar2V.
ABOUT ORIGINATE! -- Originate! is an independent online business development newsletter for lawyers at http://www.pbdi.org/originate. The paid subscription newsletter offers practical advice for lawyers to get new clients and generate more revenue.
ABOUT LSSO - The Legal Sales and Service Organization, based in Boston and found at http://www.legalsales.org, is the legal industry's only organization exclusively focused on sales, service and quality issues in law firms and legal departments.
Contacts: Barry Schneider, 214.315.3212
Larry Bodine, editor, 630.942.0977
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