I heard through the grapevine that Liz Pava, Pillsbury CMO, has resigned from her position. Her last day is rumored to be May 30th. This resignation follows on the heels of the launch of the new Pillsbury corporate identity package (see earlier post of May 16). Rumor also reports that it was definitely her choice
Ya Think!?
File this one under the “no duh” column. Lawyers are introverts.
Lawyers ranked sixth overall on a list of the 200 best jobs for introverts, just behind the loner braniacs who work as computer software engineers and accountants.
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Larry Richard, a consultant for Hildebrandt International, isn’t surprised by Shutkin’s findings. Richard specializes
Give us your tired, your poor, your weary…
One of the ongoing challenges I have in law firm business development is effectively side-stepping the equity partners and non-equity partners who have few, if any, business development skills and/or simply lack interest in it (“It’s unseemly for a lawyer to have to ASK a client for business.”). However, managing partners rarely let you forget
Talk about search engines: Try Powerset on Wikipedia
Talk about search engines! Powerset just went public with its Wikipedia search tool. I first mentioned Powerset last August in my article Web 2.0 Won’t Eat Your Mouse published in the New Jersey Law Journal. I wrote: “Powerset Natural Language Search hopes to be Google’s competitor by utilizing paraphrasing, compound nouns and hypotheses
Wikipedia – Is it an authoritative resource?
Because my work involves recent technology, I use Wikipedia as a resource and frequently use definitions from Wikipedia in my presentations. Established encyclopedias and dictionaries do not cover many of the terms that I address. I recently attributed a definition to Wikipedia and received feedback from a critic in the audience stating that Wikipedia is
When the Media Machine is Out of Your Hands
From a seat in the marketing department, what would you do?
This morning, I picked up the Daily Journal to find an article about a former Bingham associate who claims she (and others) were drugged at firm events. She filed a discrimination complaint alleging that “the law firm didn’t do enough to investigate alleged druggings
Faux Pas Moments
We’ve all had them. That moment when you said the wrong thing, wore the wrong thing, got drunk at the wrong time, and now, you are no longer seen as a colleague by the attorneys, but as “staff,” or, in my case, a “honey” or a “chick.”
There’s a great article on professionals (primarily women)
What do you consider the hardest part of your job?
Law firms can be challenging places to work. Lots of highly intelligent, highly compensated people running around. So what’s the challenge you find most daunting? For me, it’s convincing partners (usually equity partners) to change how they manage their client relationships. And that begins with picking up the phone to arrange a client visit. I
What’s the Best Advice You Ever Got?
I subscribe to Fortune magazine for two issues: “Fortune 500” and “Best Advice I Ever Got.” From this year’s issue, I love what Sam Palmisano , Chairman and CEO, IBM has to say.
Some of the best advice I ever received was unspoken. Over the course of my IBM career I’ve observed many CEOs
Let them eat cake!
Big Brown. In the $$$$. Money for the masses. Here we come Belmont. Here we come Preakness. Big Brown is XXX. Ride On!