Zen & the Art of Legal Networking

ILN-terviews: Jonas Forsman, Hellstrom

Welcome to ILN-terviews, a series of profiles of ILN member firm attorneys, designed to give a unique insight into the lawyers who make up our Network. For our latest interview, we chose ILN member, Jonas Forsman of our member firm Hellstrom in Stockholm, Sweden.

In one sentence, how would you describe your practice?
My practice is within company law with focus on M&A, structural and managerial issues.

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Week of May 7, 2012 on ILNToday – A Roundup

With our Annual Meeting coming up next week, it’s not pretty around here as we nail down the last minute details and ensure that all of our delegates have a fabulous and smoothly-running conference! So without further ado, I’m just giving you the links to this week’s top posts over at ILNToday!

Happy Friday everyone!

 

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Think Like an Editor – A Webinar Recap

In Monday’s post recapping Adrian Lurssen & John Hellerman’s recent webinar, we talked about their advice to see the world from your audience’s point of view. Today, we’ll look at their next point, to think like an editor.

Adrian kicked off this section with a quote from Barger & Wolen’s Heather Morse:

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ILN-terviews: Dale Van Demark, Epstein Becker & Green

Welcome to ILN-terviews, a series of profiles of ILN member firm attorneys, designed to give a unique insight into the lawyers who make up our Network. For our latest interview, we chose ILN member, Dale Van Demark of our member firm Epstein Becker & Green in Washington, DC.  Dale will be one of our hosts for next week’s 24th Annual Meeting in Washington!

In one sentence, how would you describe your practice?
My practice focuses on hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions and the innovation of healthcare delivery domestically and abroad – such as new coordinated care models supported by private and government programs, telemedicine and cross-border provider and education programs.

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Use Editorial Focus & Insights to Create Content that Gets Noticed – A Webinar Recap

There are some truly brilliant people in our industry, and the week before last, I was fortunate to hear two of them present in a webinar:  JD Supra‘s Adrian Lurssen and Hellerman Baretz Communication‘s John Hellerman.  The webinar addressed the topic of using editorial focus and insights to create content that gets noticed.

They kicked off the webinar with the advice that we should be looking at the world from our audience’s point of view. Since there’s a lot of meaty information in the webinar recap, I’ll break the post up. 

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Week of April 30, 2012 on ILNToday – A Roundup

This week has just sped by! We’re getting ready for next week’s IP Group luncheon during INTA, and excited for the ILN’s 24th Annual Meeting the following week in Washington, DC!

So without further ado, here are this week’s Top Five!

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Let’s Talk Twitter: An LMA Social Media SIG Webinar

Today, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a webinar presentation from my friends Nancy Myrland of Myrland Marketing and Lance Godard of JD Supra. The Social Media Special Interest Group for the Legal Marketing Association has been putting on monthly webinars, and this month’s focused on Twitter.

Since it is a member benefit, I won’t give all the secrets away, but I did want to offer the highlights: 

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Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: Create your own Networking Group

Thanks to Jaimie Field for another fabulous rainmaking recommendation:

What type of law do you practice? What industry do you target?

In each area of practice there is a list of people who work in the same in industry who do not practice law. People like accountants, psychologists/therapists, and other vendors who concentrate on the same group of people/businesses you are trying to reach who will not step on your legal toes.

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Week of April 23, 2012 on ILNToday – A Roundup

When did it get to be the end of April already? This year is flying by!

So without further ado, here are the most popular articles from ILNToday for this week!

  • Official Marks in Canada – Foreign public authorities need not apply from Clark Wilson: Karen Monteith discusses the Federal Court of Canada recent ruling in favor of Maple Leaf Foods Inc. in an appeal of the decision of the Registrar of Trade-marks.
  • Pitfalls In Proving CERCLA Divisibility Of Harm from Epstein Becker & Green: Bill Ruskin delves into the Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. case, and a judge’s recent ruling that PRP Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. failed to prove that contamination at a CERCLA site was divisible and, as a result, will be subject to CERCLA 107 joint and several liability at an upcoming September 2012 bench trial. 
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Let’s Get Specific – On LinkedIn

Over the last couple of days, I’ve been working on developing a few sub-groups for our International Lawyers Group member group on LinkedIn.  These groups are online forums for our Specialty Groups, which member firm attorneys participate in throughout the year.

As I’m developing the groups, I’m going through my LinkedIn contacts to invite those who practice in those areas to participate. And I’m seeing a lot of this:

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