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Recent Recognition
Lawdragon Ranks Top Consultants
September 18, 2008 - - I guess it was inevitable. It was just a matter of time. First we saw clients rating individual lawyers that ultimately resulted in listings of the best attorneys by practice area. Then we witnessed even the ABA getting into the act with it’s soliciting votes and rendering a critical assessment of legal blogs (a number of which received a pretty pathetic few votes!) And apparently now we have the managing partners of significant law firms evaluating and voting on the merits of individual law firm consultants.
Now I remember a time when I began consulting to law firms in the early 80”s when I knew every consultant that served the profession and could name the various consulting firms on one hand (no exaggeration). So imagine my surprise when I learned that Lawdragon was preparing a listing of the "100 Legal Consultants You Need to Know."
How did I find out about this listing?
 A short while ago I received a very flattering note from Katrina Dewey, the CEO and Publisher of Lawdragon stating: “Congratulations! Lawdragon has selected you for inclusion in its upcoming feature: ‘100 Legal Consultants You Need to Know.’ Hundreds of consultants for the legal industry were nominated from throughout the country. We will be posting this issue online and will also include your recognition in our annual print publication released this fall.”
100 Legal Consultants? I couldn’t believe that they were serious. A Hundred??? That must include every possible consultant who professes to serve the profession. My immediate response to Katrina (in addition to being highly flattered) was to inquire of her – “come on now, were there really hundreds of consultants nominated?”
What I learned was that Lawdragon’s researchers surveyed managing partners from all across the country. Katrina was very gracious in her feedback: “I have to say that I think you received more glowing recommendations than any other ‘consultant’ on the list. You have quite a legion of supporters. Extraordinarily impressive. For the consultants, in addition to the high-level strategic ‘consultants’ of which you are an outstanding example, we include legal recruiters, marketing consultants, generational change advisors, technology advisors and a hodgepodge of others.”
As you might imagine I was extraordinarily keen to see the final list . . . and today the online version was made public.
Looking at the list you may likely conclude that there are no big surprises here. It contains all of the usual suspects: David Maister, Ward Bower, Brad Hildebrandt, and Tony Williams join me among the high-level strategic consultants; while Sally Schmidt, Burkey Belser, and Bill Flannery populated the marketing category; together with a number of notable consultants in other categories – ALL names you would just naturally expect to see on a list of the top consultants.
That said, HUGE KUDOS to the researchers and staff at Lawdragon for all of their work in compiling this list. It is definitely a first and will likely be distributed widely amongst the major law firms and closely scrutinized by those managing partners requiring solid advisory counsel.
And my sincere thanks to those clients, whoever they are, who voted for and graciously commented on my capabilities.
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“LawDragon is thrilled to have published the first guide to the nation's most exclusive consultants, which was selected through a combination of online balloting and old fashioned reporting. We asked law firm leaders who they turn to and they responded with a list of strategic, recruiting and public relations professionals that is truly the crème of the crop.” said Katrina Dewey, CEO, Lawdragon Inc.
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