On Record PR (Gina Rubel)

In this episode of On Record PR, we flip the script and interview Gina Rubel on how the court of public relations is different from the court of law, the art of working with the media, and how you get your message out. If you’re an attorney or an executive, and you suddenly have an interview thrust upon you with no time to prepare, this discussion covers everything you need to know quickly.

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Gina Rubel is the host of On Record PR, the founder and CEO of Furia Rubel Communications, and the author of Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers. Founded in 2002, Furia Rubel is a leading national PR agency which helps top businesses and law firms with high-stakes public relations, reputation management, crisis planning, and incident response including high profile litigation media relations.

Leslie Richards goes on record with Cathryn Miller-Wilson, Executive Director of HIAS Pennsylvania, to discuss the history and important work of HIAS Pennsylvania, recent trends impacting immigration, and how COVID-19 has impacted the organization’s work.

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Cathryn Miller-Wilson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1993 and has spent her career doing social justice work: representing parents accused of abuse and neglect at Community Legal Services, Inc., representing persons with HIV/AIDS at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and teaching and supervising law students who represented low-income persons in a variety of civil matters at both Drexel University School of Law and Villanova University School of Law.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Sara Merken, legal reporter with Reuters, to discuss her journey of becoming a legal reporter, legal innovation during the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of access to diverse sources, and legal trends on her radar.

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Sara primarily writes for a subscriber-audience of lawyers and other professionals, covering a variety of legal topics, including privacy and data security; the business of law; and legal innovation and technology. She joined the Reuters Legal team in April 2020.

In addition to Reuters, Sara has been a reporter at Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg BNA. Reuters is the news and media division of multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters. The Reuters Legal team is part of Reuters.

In this episode of On Record PR, Executive Vice President Sarah Larson goes on record with James Greenwood, senior policy advisor at DLA Piper, retired CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and former congressman representing Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Jim Greenwood started his career as a social worker focusing on abused and neglected children in 1980. At the age of 29, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and six years later to the state Senate.

In 1992, he was elected to Congress and would go on to represent Pennsylvania's eighth congressional district for six terms from 1993 to 2005. In 2005, Jim voluntarily left Congress to serve as the president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. After 15 years at the helm of BIO, he recently joined DLA Piper where he now chairs the Life Sciences, Health, Policy and Regulatory Group.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Naren Aryal, CEO of Amplify Publishing Group.

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As CEO of Amplify Publishing Group, Naren Aryal advises authors, thought leaders, and organizations on the opportunities and challenges that exist in the evolving world of publishing. He’s guided the company’s growth from a single title in 2003 to becoming one of the fastest growing and most respected hybrid publishing companies in the world. Today, Amplify Publishing Group is home to six imprints, including our flagship imprint Amplify Publishing, which specializes in “big ideas” from business and political leaders; Mascot Books, which publishes hundreds of books across all genres; and RealClear Publishing, a joint venture with RealClearPolitics that redefines the political book marketplace by magnifying the voices of politicians, policymakers, and commentators seeking to influence timely national conversations.

Prior to entering the world of books, Naren worked as a lawyer, advising technology companies in the Washington, D.C., area. He holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech and Juris Doctor from the University of Denver. Naren frequently speaks at publishing and business events about the importance of developing compelling content and a robust author platform. He is also the author of "How to Sell a Crapload of Books: 10 Secrets of a Killer Author Marketing Platform."

Prior to entering the world of books, Naren worked as a lawyer, advising technology companies in the Washington, D.C. area. He holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech and Juris Doctor from the University of Denver.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Maria Feeley, the Chief Legal Officer of Washington and Lee University, to discuss the important role of the general counsel in times of crisis and GC’s expectations of outside counsel.

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Maria Feeley is the Chief Legal Officer of Washington and Lee University, a nationally ranked private liberal arts university established in 1749 with an endowment valued at over $2 billion. She is also Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rosemont College, a private college celebrating its 100th anniversary, ranked #7 as a Top Performer in Social Mobility in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Rankings in the Regional Universities North category, up from #15 last year. Rosemont is the only college in the Philadelphia region in the Top 10.

Prior to joining Washington and Lee, Maria served as Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and - for two years - as Interim Athletics Director of the University of Hartford, an institution with seven colleges offering over 100-degree programs, students from 48 states, 63 countries, and a robust Division I Athletics program. There she was responsible for oversight of the Office of General Counsel, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and Title IX Compliance, Athletics Department, Office of the Secretary, Compliance and ERM Programs. As Athletics Director, she oversaw a budget of over $22 million, managed over 75 full time employees and 17 Division I Athletics Programs, launched new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and a new Varsity Esports Program, funded and built a new Esports arena, and celebrated the men’s basketball team’s first ever NCAA Tournament appearance and America East Championship win.

Prior to joining Hartford, she served as the Chief Legal Officer of Florida A&M University, one of the largest HBCUs in the country.

From 2007 through 2017, Maria was a partner in the Am Law 100 law firm Pepper Hamilton, where she chaired the Women’s Initiative, was vice chair of the Diversity Committee, and was on the Hiring and Contributions Committees. She was a senior legal consultant for FGIS, a risk management company former FBI Director Louis Freeh founded, and Pepper acquired. With FGIS, she served as a senior consultant for the Deepwater Horizon Economic Claims Center in connection with the largest court-supervised settlement program in U.S. history following the BP oil spill.

In 2014, the Pennsylvania Governor appointed her to the State Ethics Commission, an independent agency which enforces the Ethics Act, and certain provisions of the Lobbying Disclosure Law, Gaming Act, and Medical Marijuana Act.

Philly Biz named her a “Top Business Attorney;” Profiles in Diversity Journal honored her in its 10th Annual WomenWorthWatching® issue; The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly named her one of Pennsylvania’s 25 Women of the Year in 2008; she received the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Peretta Award, was appointed Philadelphia liaison to the ABA’s Commission on Women, co-chair of the 2010 ABA Women in Law Leadership Academy Programming Committee, Zone 1 Delegate to the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates; she was elected to the Board of Governors of the 13,000 member Philadelphia Bar Association, appointed to the Committee on Judicial Selection and Retention, and chaired the Association’s Women in the Profession Committee, Annual Bench Bar Conference, Women’s Rights Committee, Sandra Day O’Connor Award Committee, and Drafting Committee for the Development of a Call to Action and Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers.

Maria obtained her JD from Washington and Lee University where she served as senior articles editor for the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice f/k/a Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Digest. She obtained her BA, cum laude, in Mathematics and History from Rosemont College, where she received a full-tuition academic scholarship, was inducted into the Delta Epsilon Sigma national honor society and was an adjunct business law professor from 2006 through 2015.

In this episode, Sarah Larson goes on record with Antoinette Hubbard, diversity and inclusion director at the national law firm Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy and a senior member of the firm’s Delaware Asbestos Litigation Team.

About Antoinette Hubbard

You could say that Antoinette has been around the world and back.

She is the second child of four and was raised by parents who lacked many educational opportunities. They instilled in her a love of learning and the belief that with hard work, she could achieve the goals that she set for herself.

She was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended college and law school in the Greater Philadelphia area. She married her college sweetheart and moved to Boston, where they lived for 12 years. Both of their daughters were born in Boston, so although she is from Philly, she has a special place in her heart for Boston.

She and her family moved to Ghana where her husband is from and lived there for five years. When they returned to the U.S., they moved to the Philadelphia area to be near her family.

At Maron Marvel, Antoinette has extensive experience in the defense of complex product liability and toxic tort matters and has successfully defended personal injury cases, including wrongful death and severe impairment claims, and numerous commercial cases in both federal and state courts.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Susan Bocamazo, Managing Director of Bridgetower Media, to discuss how lawyers can raise their profiles through mutually beneficial partnerships with media professionals.

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Susan Bocamazo is a graduate of Providence College and Harvard Law School. She practiced in the litigation department of Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston before originally joining Lawyers Weekly as a news writer. She now serves as the managing director for Bridgetower Media's legal vertical, which encompasses legal brands in Massachusetts, Virginia, Missouri, Michigan, North and South Carolina and Rhode Island. Susan has 20+ years of experience in the rapidly changing media industry, adapting to readers' changing expectations and a digital-first world. She has expertise in all business areas, including community outreach, corporate strategy and organizational performance.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Angela Giampolo, the owner of Giampolo Law Group, which services the LGBTQ community for all of their legal needs.

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Angela Giampolo is the founder of Caravan of Hope, an initiative that seeks to alleviate the burdens and stress experienced by the most vulnerable in the LGBTQ community. Caravan of Hope also seeks to ensure that the LGBTQ people living in rural communities have access to the resources they need to thrive. Throughout June and for Pride Month, Angela took an RV cross-country providing pro bono legal services to underserved and underrepresented LGBTQ individuals. Her services included everything from transgender name changes and gender marker changes to wills, uncontested divorces, and getting started on adoption.

Angela, also known as the Philly Gay Lawyer, is an expert on LGBTQ legal issues and has been featured as a leading expert on national media, including NPR, CBS, Fox News and NBC. She's provided insight as a legal columnist for the Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia Business Journal and Philadelphia Gay News. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kim Scott, the New York Times Best-Selling author of Just Work and Radical Candor.

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Kim Scott is the author of Just Work and Radical Candor and co-founder of a company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University, and before that, she led Google’s AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams. Kim co-founded the executive education company Radical Candor with Jason Rosoff. Radical Candor is a team of passionate professionals helping organizations move from a culture of command and control to one of collaboration and inclusivity.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Sharna Cáceres, a leading fertility law and adoption lawyer to families worldwide, to discuss how lawyers are helping LGBTQ+ singles and couples navigate adoption and fertility in the United States and throughout the world as they grow their families.

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Sharna helps families grow through fertility solutions and adoption. She provides counsel on strategies for building families and helps clients navigate the required legal processes with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ singles and couples. A graduate of the University of the Incarnate Word journalism school, and St. Mary's School of Law, she also attended the National Institute of Adoption Law & Policy and the Dispute Resolution Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Sharna volunteers with organizations that develop youth and further local communities. She is married to her college sweetheart, and they are raising three bilingual children and a myriad of rescue pets. She is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with James Barclay, CEO of Passle Inc., to discuss content marketing in the legal industry.

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James Barclay is CEO of Passle, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company focused on providing a content marketing platform specifically for law firms. James is leading their expansion in the US alongside the co-founders of Passle. This is the third technology firm he has grown over the past 25 years. In short, James is in charge of driving digital transformation in law firms. When he is not doing that, you can find him sailing. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Gina Rubel goes on record with May Lee, award-winning journalist and host of The May Lee Show, to discuss AAPI Heritage Month, her journey to becoming an award-winning journalist, what experiences have had the greatest impact on her career in communications, and what inspired the launch of The May Lee Show.

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At the start of 2020, May partnered with NextShark, the leading Asian online news source, to launch “The May Lee Show”, a podcast/video program focused on Asian and Asian American issues and stories.

Prior to “The May Lee Show”, May was the LA-based correspondent for international network CGTN-America. She covered news, politics, business, and entertainment throughout Southern California and beyond.

May is also the founder and CEO of Lotus Media House, a media company that she started in Singapore and produced original programs including “The May Lee Show”, the first pan-Asia talk show for women. May’s international experience as a broadcast journalist began in 1992 at Japan’s NHK network. Then, May became the first Korean American to become a news anchor for CNN, first as the Tokyo Correspondent and then the main anchor for CNN International in Hong Kong.

In 2000, May joined the dynamic new women’s network, Oxygen Media, founded by Oprah Winfrey as one of its main talk show hosts. She headed back to Asia in 2004 to join CNBC Asia as the primary anchor.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with William M. Washington III, Global CFO of Baker McKenzie, to discuss navigating the complex finances of an international law firm.

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William M. Washington III is responsible for Baker McKenzie's financial operations, which totals more than over $3 billion in revenue across 76 offices in 45 countries. In his role, he is responsible for over 1,400 people and serves on the Executive Committee, Financial Committee and many other strategic committees related to the firm's operations. William has also served as the CFO – Americas for Hogan Lovells where he worked closely with firm leadership to formulate a vision for the future of the firm and provide an understanding of the firm’s financial picture to help drive profitability.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Gregg Feistman, Assistant Chair for Public Relations at Temple University, to discuss how social advocacy and technology are changing the landscape of corporate public relations.

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After a long career in corporate public relations, Greg celebrates his 22nd year at Temple University as Assistant Chair of Public Relations. He oversees the undergraduate PR program, and teaches graduate courses in corporate social responsibility and consulting skills. 

Gregg and two colleagues recently presented a study on emerging technology and PR at this year's Institute for Public Relations Conference in Washington DC. He's a local and national speaker, a published novelist, and is currently co-writing a book on corporate social advocacy.

In this episode of On Record PR, Sarah Larson goes on record with Efua Obeng, associate professor and department chair of marketing at Howard University.

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Efua Obeng recently spoke at HubSpot's annual conference Inbound 2021 discussing mentorship and advocacy in black business leadership and appeared on a podcast interview entitled Why Marketers Need to Listen to Black Voices.

In addition to earning a bachelor's degree in business from UNC Chapel Hill and a master's degree from Duke University, Efua earned a PhD in business administration with a marketing concentration from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Her experience at Katz helped sharpen her thought process, leadership, and research skills and highlighted the importance of making decisions based on data.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Francisco “Frank” Ramos, Partner at Clarke Silverglate and author of Confessions of a Latino Lawyer, about how to achieve diversity in the legal field.

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Frank is a Partner of Clarke Silverglate, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation, drug and medical device, products liability and catastrophic personal injury. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for his defense work in product liability matters. Frank has been with Clarke Silverglate for virtually his entire career. He has tried to verdict personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, and inverse condemnation cases. As a certified mediator, Frank has resolved numerous matters through alternative dispute resolution. 

Frank is an ambassador for the Firm’s mission of leadership and service. He has been President of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association and the 11th Judicial Historical Society and has served on the boards of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Defense Research Institute, Florida International University’s Alumni Association, Florida International University’s Honors College, Parent to Parent of Miami, Miami-Dade Defense Bar Association, Legal Services of Greater Miami, and Florida Christian School. He serves as a mentor to countless young lawyers and law students through his publications, social media posts, presentations, webinars, and his “coffee chats.” Frank has written 20 books for lawyers, edited five books for lawyers, and has written over 400 articles for lawyers and business professionals.

Frank’s dedication to young lawyers is exemplified through his development of a Deposition Boot Camp and Art of Marketing Program for the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, an invitation-only defense organization that handpicked Frank for membership just eight years into his practice. Frank’s daily practice pointers and business tips on LinkedIn have over 55,000 followers and 5,000 friends on Facebook.

In his spare time, Frank enjoys writing, reading science fiction, and listening to his two sons, David and Michael, perform classical and jazz music.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kathryn Robb, executive director of Child USAdvocacy, to discuss important initiatives to end child abuse and neglect.

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Kathryn is a lawyer, legislative advocate, and law instructor who has been fighting to pass meaningful child sex abuse legislation across the country for more than 15 years. As an outspoken survivor of child sexual abuse, Kathryn continues to use her voice to implement common-sense legislative changes to end child abuse and neglect, and to enact victim-friendly legislation.

The initiatives of Child USAdvocacy include reforming statutes of limitations for child abuse and neglect; ending female genital mutilation, also known as FGM; ending conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth; ending exemptions for childhood vaccinations; ending child marriage; and family court reform.

Kathryn regularly testifies before legislative committees. She writes opinions for local and national press and appears on news outlets at the local and national levels. She is a co-founder of New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, a coalition of organizations, advocates, and sex abuse survivors from across New York.

Kathryn has worked closely with then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, his staff, and New York State legislators to finally pass the New York Child Victims Act after a 12-year hard-fought battle. The bill was signed into law on February 14th, 2019.

Gina Rubel, goes on record with Pavani Thagirisa, Associate General Counsel, Vice-President and Global Head of Legal for ESG at S&P Global, to discuss how legal leaders can be advocates and advisors across a broad spectrum of responsibilities and roles.

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Pavani joined S&P Global in 2009 and currently advises S&P Global' s enterprise ESG business.

Over the past 10 years, she has held several management and non-management roles with increasing responsibility, ranging from commercial deal negotiation and M&A to helping set legal and operational strategies for the department. From late 2017 through the spring of 2019, Pavani served as Chair of the General Counsel’s Advisory Council. She assisted S&P Global’s General Counsel, Steve Kemps, and his Advisory group on cross-divisional and cross-functional opportunities and challenges across the Global Legal, Compliance and Corporate Security Department.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Mike Abbott, Head of The Thomson Reuters Institute, to discuss how data and market insights are key to crafting effective law firm strategy in an ever-changing landscape.

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Mike Abbott is the Head of the Thomson Reuters Institute. The Institute brings together leaders from across the Legal, Corporate, Tax, and Government communities to share data and insights, discuss market trends, and help shape the way forward for these markets and individual organizations.

Prior to creating the Institute, Mike was a senior consultant with Hildebrandt Consulting and held leadership positions across Thomson Reuters Sales, Marketing, and Client Management in Washington DC and Minneapolis - St. Paul.  Mike attended Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA where he earned his B.A. in English/Writing.

Leslie Richards goes on record with Ellen Snortland to discuss the origin of the National Women's History Alliance and the significance of Women’s History Month for women and girls today.

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Ellen has her Juris doctorate from Loyola Law School, and is an author, lecturer, playwright, filmmaker, and writing coach for local and internationally based clients.

A long-time woman's rights advocate, Ellen is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine, has been featured on NPR and has written for many major market newspapers. Ellen's acclaimed one woman show, Now That She's Gone, is a comic memoir about growing up Norwegian-American in Colorado and South Dakota. She has attended several United Nations World Conferences, and annual UN meetings as an NGO delegate, self-defense advocate and journalist.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Leslie Richards, Chief Innovation Officer of Furia Rubel Communications, to discuss the biggest digital marketing trends to watch for in 2024 and the impact of generative AI on communication strategy.

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The Chief Innovation Officer of Furia Rubel Communications, Leslie Richards has been helping marketing and design teams excel for more than 25 years. Since 2005, she has served in agency leadership positions where she spearheaded the development of branding, digital asset creation, and online marketing strategies for large healthcare and life science organizations; engineering and manufacturing companies; and legal and professional service firms. She has led the launch of more than 1,200 websites and countless digital campaigns.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Keith Maziarek, Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and an Officer and Board Member of the Legal Value Network.

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In his role as Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Katten, he is responsible for developing, implementing and scaling the firm's formal pricing and legal project management functions. The scope of this position includes both internal and client-facing responsibilities focused on establishing institutional best practices related to strategic pricing, service delivery efficiency and maximizing client value.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with linguistic anthropologist Suzanne Wertheim to discuss how using inclusive language can build trust and strengthen relationships with co-workers, friends, and family.

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Suzanne Wertheim, PhD is a national expert on inclusive language and an international keynote speaker with more than two decades of experience researching and speaking about inclusive language. Her book, The Inclusive Language Field Guide: 6 Simple Principles for Avoiding Painful Mistakes and Communicating Respectfully (Berrett-Koehler), offers 6 common-sense principles to guide all kinds of communication with all kinds of people.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Bill Heller, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the New York Giants, to discuss his transition from private practice to in-house, the legal issues that keep him the busiest, what resources he values to stay abreast of legal developments, and his advice to new general counsel.

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As the New York Giants Chief Legal Officer, Bill is involved in all aspects of the Giants’ business, running the gamut from labor and employment, to sponsorships, naming rights, licensing, entertainment and other contracts, to assistance with the legal aspects of the football operations.

Prior to his tenure at the Giants and throughout his legal career, Bill practiced at major law firms based in New Jersey and handled cases nationwide. He tried federal and state court cases involving intellectual property, commercial and employment matters, among other things, for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned entities.

In this episode of On Record PR, members of the Furia Rubel team go on record to discuss trends in digital marketing, public and media relations, crisis communications, business development, and talent acquisition and retention.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with WBNA All-Star Kym Hampton to discuss how organizations can successfully recruit and retain diverse talent and the competitive advantage of diverse teams.

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As a professional basketball player, Kym was drafted as the number four pick in the 1997 WNBA Elite draft and played three seasons for the New York Liberty. Prior to joining the WNBA, Kym did a 12-year professional stint overseas including -- Spain, Italy, France and Japan. After a 15-year professional playing career, she retired from basketball in 2000.

During Kym’s WNBA career and since then, she has become a plus size model in fashion as well as cosmetics. She is an original Cover Girl Queen Collection model featured in a nation-wide commercial. She has found herself in GLAMOUR, ESSENCE and other magazines. She is also a spokesperson for the NBA, WNBA, and New York Liberty.

As if that doesn’t keep her busy enough, singing has always been a love of Kym’s and she has also had the opportunity to grace the television and film world during guest appearances on the “Cosby Show”, “Rosie”, NBA TV, The Bobby Flay “Throw Down” and celebrity “Wheel of Fortune”. Her film experience includes “JuWanna Mann” and “She Hate Me” so far.

A graduate of Arizona State University, she received her bachelor’s degree in theater but will go down in the university’s history book as one of the most decorated hoop players to wear a Sun Devil’s jersey.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Jessica Jaramillo and Vanessa Petrea, legal marketers and co-hosts of The Legal S/ant podcast, to discuss how The Legal S/ant Podcast came to fruition, the challenges to maintaining a podcast, what trends Jessica and Vanessa are seeing in the legal industry, and lessons.

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The Legal S/ant podcast is focused on bringing the legal marketing community together to provide wisdom, humor, camaraderie, and life hacks. Jessica is a marketing director at Ireland Stapleton and she lives and works in Denver. Vanessa is a senior business development manager at Pillsbury Winthrop and hails from Texas. In each episode, Jessica and Vanessa interview legal marketing professionals and dive deeper into top of mind topics. The Legal S/ant also spotlights the unique challenges legal marketers face, and how seasoned professionals avoid burnout and even thrive.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Alexander Lima, Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Wesco International, to discuss the importance of understanding clients’ business needs and building trust.

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Global business executive with over 25 years of expertise in leading corporate legal functions for medium and large matrixed public organizations. Proven track record as a strategic and tactical business partner to C-Suite and other senior executives. Catalyst for growth with a change management approach to legal and commercial support. Highly pragmatic and innovative thinker who focuses on winning the game rather than calling balls and strikes. Valued for decisive insights, navigating market and regulatory risks, and mitigating revenue leakage, while protecting business and shareholder interests. Agile mentor and coach who creates a sincere and sustainable passion around a compelling strategic vision that team members and colleagues readily follow.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Marsha Redmon to discuss how lawyers and other professionals can become powerful presenters. Marsha shares her 24 hot tips to ignite your public speaking skills today.

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Marsha Redmon is the secret weapon elite law firms and lawyers have gone to for 23 years to have a more powerful presence when they speak. During the pandemic, she became the go-to expert teaching professionals worldwide how to fix their virtual presence so they could speak with confidence and engage powerfully – to win clients, have impact and own their niche.

Marsha is a former practicing attorney and award-winning TV journalist. The through-line in her varied career is “there must be a better, faster way to do this.” With practical, hands-on processes, she is the checklist and template queen.

Marsha practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and was an award-winning consumer and investigative reporter on television in major markets.

Married with twin daughters who just started college – Marsha lives in the Washington, DC suburbs. She was born and raised in Key West, Florida – and loves Cuban food and island vacations. Hobbies: reading, travel. Her favorite word is ebullient (ee-BULE-ee-ent) …and… she is! ee-BULE-ee-ent

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Mitchell Sterling, Chief Client Development and Relationship Officer at Blank Rome, to discuss how law firms can collaborate with clients to best serve their needs.

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Mitch Sterling works closely with Blank Rome’s leadership and attorneys across practices and geographies to identify and pursue opportunities for revenue generation and exceptional client service.

He develops and executes upon business, client, and industry strategies. Mitch leads and manages a broad range of interdisciplinary industry teams, working groups, and client campaigns. He also manages the firm’s Competitive Intelligence team and drives profile-, brand-, and relationship-building efforts for the firm’s Philadelphia office.

Mitch has more than 15 years of experience in the legal industry. Prior to joining Blank Rome, he served as both a Director of Marketing and Business Development and a practicing real estate attorney for a global Am Law 20 law firm.

Mitch earned his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and his B.B.A. in Marketing from Emory University.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Deborah Farone, founder of Farone Advisors, LLC, to discuss best practices for personal business development for lawyers and other professionals.

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Deborah Farone has had the unique opportunity to play a role in developing the best practices in professional services marketing by working with the most respected and most demanding lawyers in the world.

Deborah is the author of the best-selling legal marketing book, “Best Practices: Marketing and Business Development for Law Firms” (PLI 2019), a work based on more than sixty interviews with successful law firm leaders and marketers, general counsel, and innovators in the profession. Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession, has called Deborah “the leading expert in law firm marketing. Not only has she studied this complex topic from the peak of the legal profession, her research into what works and what doesn’t is priceless for anyone interested in growing their business.”  The book is carried by bookstores of the United States’ highest ranked law schools, including Harvard, Yale and Columbia.

Over the past two decades, Deborah has carved out a niche by distinguishing herself as the chief marketing officer of two of the world’s most prestigious law firms, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Prior to diving into the legal marketing profession, she honed her business development and communications skills by working at the global management consulting firm Towers Perrin, now Willis Towers Watson. In her early days, she worked both in the new business department and as an account executive at Ketchum Communications.

Deborah has been involved in the corporate and academic arena. She recently spoke at McKinsey & Company’s legal department and, on the academic side, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, Cornell Law School and Fordham Law School. She has served as an adjunct Assistant Professor on the faculty of New York University.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Siri Lindley, two-time world champion triathlete and coach, to discuss her journey as an athlete, overcoming your inner-gremlin, and the power of positive language.

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Siri Lindley is a triathlon coach and former professional triathlete. She is the 2001 International Triathlon Union (ITU) Triathlon World Champion as well as the winner of the 2001 and 2002 ITU Triathlon World Cup series and 2001 ITU Aquathlon World Championships. She has coached a number of Olympic and Ironman athletes and champions. In 2014, she was selected to be a member of the inaugural ITU Hall of Fame class.

In addition to coaching, Siri is a public speaker and author. She has also worked as a television sports analyst covering triathlon and field hockey events for NBC during the 2004 Summer Olympics. She has reported on NCAA Field Hockey, the NCAA Final Four, and the Big 10 Tournament for NBC, CSTV, and TVNZ.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Gretchen Carlson, an internationally recognized advocate for women’s rights whose bold actions against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes helped pave the way for the global #MeToo movement.

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A former CBS News and Fox News journalist, author, TED talk alumna, and champion for workplace equality, Gretchen Carlson was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” reported on by Katie Couric.

Gretchen’s story has been told in the movie Bombshell and the Showtime mini-series The Loudest Voice.

Her organization, Lift Our Voices, works to end silencing mechanisms that keep toxic issues like sexual assault and harassment secret. Gretchen is a New York Times bestselling author of “Be Fierce” and “Getting Real.”

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Janet Falk, who has more than 30 years of in-house and public relations agency experience. She advises attorneys at solo and small law firms on media relations and marketing communications.

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Janet has more than 30 years of in-house and public relations agency experience. She advises attorneys at solo and small law firms on media relations and marketing communications and shares unique opportunities for women lawyers to distinguish themselves in media outreach. Learn more about Janet on her website: www.janetlfalk.com.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Zack Needles, Editor-in-Chief of Law.com, to discuss how legal journalism can prepare law firms for emerging trends that could have a major impact on the industry.

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Zack Needles is Global Managing Editor, Regional Brands at ALM. He is also the Managing Editor of The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Delaware Business Court Insider and Delaware Law Weekly.

Leslie Richards goes on record with Guy Alvarez, Founder and CEO of Good2BSocial, to discuss the competitive advantages for law firms who adopt marketing technology and learn how to use it effectively.

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Guy Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of Good2BSocial. Guy, a former practicing attorney, is one of the leading consultants in the fields of technology and digital marketing in the legal industry. Guy has advised Fortune 1000 companies and AmLaw 100 law firms on all aspects of digital marketing.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Meghan Warren, Director and Principal of Burke Lawyers, to discuss the importance of sharing knowledge to help businesses prepare for any legal issues on the horizon.

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Meghan Warren is a commercial and business lawyer in advice, transaction and disputes with more than 16 years of experience and rare industry capabilities. She's also one of the few Australian lawyers with a New York State Bar attorney license, allowing her to practice in US law in addition to her Australian legal practitioner qualification and admission. 

Meghan is one of Australia’s most sought-after lawyers for medical and health industry professionals and businesses. 

Since becoming a Director at Burke Lawyers in 2016, Meghan has helped shape the future of Burke Lawyers. She prioritizes clients and the well-being and career progression of the Burke team. And significantly, she embraces and has improved technology adoption across the firm, allowing Burke Lawyers to grow and thrive while offering uninterrupted client service. 

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Mo Bunnell, CEO of Bunnell Idea Group, to discuss how professionals can develop their business development skills. Learn how complex skills and learned and earned, why people hate to be sold to, but they love to buy, and how to develop a system to bring in the work you want, deepen the relationships you want the most, and create systems that fit within your demanding schedule.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Sabrina Mizrachi, Deputy General Counsel at Estée Lauder, to discuss how litigation has evolved with new technology and increased media attention.

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Sabrina Mizrachi is the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel of Litigation and Global Product Regulatory at The Estée Lauder Companies. Sabrina provides regulatory guidance, manages a comprehensive litigation portfolio, and protects the company’s brand integrity on a global level. Previously, Sabrina provided corporate governance and litigation management as Chief Litigation Counsel at Colgate-Palmolive.

Sabrina received her J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston University. She is involved with the Environmental, Energy, and Resources section of the American Bar Association.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Chris Garrod, Director of Insurance and Technology and head of the FinTech group at Conyers Dill & Pearman, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the practice of law.

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Chris Garrod is a Director in the Corporate department of Conyers Dill & Pearman. He is a member of the firm’s insurance practice in Bermuda.

Chris specializes in advising on reinsurance and ILS structures, including large commercial insurers, life reinsurers, special purpose insurers, cat bonds, sidecars and segregated account vehicles. In addition to his insurance practice, he also advises on all aspects of Bermuda corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, reorganizations and re-domestications. He has also formed cryptocurrency vehicles using blockchain-based technology, forming Bermuda’s first digital token issuer in late 2017. Chris is also a member of the Government of Bermuda’s Blockchain legal and working group and the Bermuda Business Development Agency’s Blockchain working group.

With over 15 years of experience working in Bermuda’s reinsurance market, Chris acts for a number of large commercial insurers/reinsurers including Assured Guaranty, Chubb, Essent Re, Everest Re, Markel Corporation, Sirius International Insurance Group, Tokio Millennium Re, White Mountains Insurance Group, XL Group, and Zurich Insurance Group.

He has also been involved in the formation of a number of segregated account “alternative” reinsurance and ILS platforms, acting for reinsurers, investment hedge funds, investment managers, pension plans, investment banks and listed companies. Additionally, he acts for numerous Lloyd’s syndicates which have Bermuda platforms. Finally, Chris sits on various reinsurance and captive boards in a non-executive capacity advising on Bermuda insurance regulatory and general corporate legal updates to those boards.

Internationally recognized as a leading lawyer, Chris has been recommended in a number of legal directories including Chambers Global and Legal 500, where clients note that his “main strengths are his responsiveness and depth of knowledge” and that he is “very knowledgeable about Bermuda regulations and has a good working relationship with the Bermuda Monetary Authority.”

Gina F. Rubel goes on record with Joan Feldman, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Attorney at Work to discuss the do’s and don’ts of pitching articles to Attorney at Work an online publication and website for lawyers who want to improve the business and marketing side of their practice.

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Attorney at Work is an online publication and website for lawyers who want to improve the business and marketing side of their practice. It celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2021, has been listed in ABA Journal's Blawg Hall of Fame.

Joan is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. She has worked in legal publishing since graduating from Northwestern's Medill School of journalism more than 30 years ago - including as managing editor of the ABA Law Practice magazine for a dozen years.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Devin Banerjee, editor at large at LinkedIn, to discuss how professionals can maximize the use of the world’s largest professional network to develop business, attract talent, and position yourself as a thought leader. 

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Devin Banerjee is a senior member of the editorial team at LinkedIn, where he serves as editor at large for business and finance. Before joining LinkedIn in 2018, Devin was an editor and reporter at Bloomberg. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2011, he reported for The Wall Street Journal. He's an honors graduate of Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

At LinkedIn, Devin is the author of the award-winning interview series Human Capital and the weekly digest This Week in Finance. More than 335,000 readers subscribe to the two newsletters.

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, with 800 million members in more than 200 countries. Its vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce, which it achieves through its mission: connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. The LinkedIn News team is made up of more than 85 editors around the world, who create, curate and cultivate content around industry trends and topics in the news.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Dena Lefkowitz, author of Winning in Your Own Court: 10 Laws for a Successful Career Without Burning Out or Selling Out.

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Dena Lefkowitz is a professional coach and the author of Winning in Your Own Court: 10 Laws for a Successful Career Without Burning Out or Selling Out published by the American Bar Association. Her company is a leading executive coaching firm focused on helping lawyers find career direction and partnering with law firms to help their underperformers develop into rainmakers. She helps lawyers develop business, curate their careers, navigate a tough profession that doesn't come with a roadmap, and define success on their own terms.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Emmy award-winning television journalist Nydia Han to discuss her career in journalism, her experience being an Asian American woman in the television newsroom, the #ThisIsAmerica viral video and docu-series, and the work Nydia is doing to amplify AAPI stories and advance diversity and inclusion for all traditionally marginalized and underrepresented groups.

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Co-anchor of 6abc Action News Sundays and the station’s consumer investigative reporter, Nydia gets real results for Action News viewers by troubleshooting issues and exposing scams as well as dangerous products. She also is a TEDx speaker and creator of #ThisIsAmerica, a provocative three-part documentary series about racism and the diverse American experience.

Nydia is committed to using her platform to uplift, empower, and give voice to traditionally underrepresented, marginalized groups. She is the recipient of the Pearl S. Buck International Woman of Influence award, NAAAP Inspire Award, and Global Voice Award from the World Woman Summit.  She was also named "Outstanding Ally" of Diversity and Inclusion by the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and her career has taken her to television stations in Idaho, Oklahoma City, and Texas.

In this episode of On Record PR, Founder and CEO, Gina F. Rubel, Esq., goes on record with Vanessa Blum, Newsroom Innovation Director at American Lawyer Media, to discuss newsroom innovation, trends in legal media and how trends impact the way news is delivered.

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Vanessa is ALM’s first Director of Newsroom Innovation, a role that combines vision, leadership and editorial expertise. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Vanessa covered courts and the legal industry in Washington D.C. and South Florida before joining ALM in San Francisco in 2012.

She served as managing editor of The Recorder and led ALM’s national litigation desk before stepping into her current role in 2018. As newsroom innovation director, Vanessa has helped to conceive and launch several recent offerings for ALM including the new Law.com Radar, a tech-enabled website that provides customized early awareness of key legal developments.

In this episode of On Record PR, Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with lifelong disability rights advocate Judith (Judy) Heumann to discuss how business leaders can best approach creating truly inclusive work environments, including for people with disabilities.

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Judith (Judy) Heumann is a lifelong advocate for the rights of disabled people. She contracted polio in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York and began to use a wheelchair for her mobility. She was denied the right to attend school because she was considered a "fire hazard" at the age of five. Her parents played a strong role in fighting for her rights as a child, but Judy soon determined that she, working in collaboration with other disabled people, had to play an advocacy role due to continuous discrimination.

She is now an internationally recognized leader in the disability rights community. Her memoir, authored with Kristen Joiner, of Being Heumann “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist,” published by Beacon Press and audio recorded by Ali Stroker, who is the first wheelchair actor to perform on Broadway. Judy was featured on the Trevor Noah show.  Judy is featured in Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American award-winning documentary film, directed by James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham, produced by the Obama Higher Ground Production and is available on Netflix. She also produces a podcast called The Heumann Perspective, which features a variety of members from the disability community.

She has been featured in numerous documentaries including on the history of the disability rights movement, including Lives Worth Living and the Power of 504 and delivered a TED talk in the fall of 2016, “Our Fight for Disability Rights- and Why We’re Not Done Yet”. Her story was also told on Comedy Central’s Drunk History in early 2018, in which she was portrayed by Ali Stroker,. As Senior Fellow at the Ford Foundation (2017-2019), she wrote “Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media”. She also currently serves on a number of non-profit boards, including the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Humanity and Inclusion, as well as the Human Rights Watch board.

Judy was a founding member of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living which was the first grassroots center in the United States and helped to launch the Independent Living Movement both nationally and globally.

In 1983, Judy co-founded the World Institute on Disability (WID) with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon, as one of the first global disability rights organizations founded and continually led by people with disabilities that works to fully integrate people with disabilities into the communities around them via research, policy, and consulting efforts.

From 1993 to 2001, Judy served in the Clinton Administration as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the Department of Education.

Judy then served as the World Bank's first Adviser on Disability and Development from 2002 to 2006. In this position, she led the World Bank's disability work to expand its knowledge and capability to work with governments and civil society on including disability in the global conversation.

During his presidency, President Obama appointed Judy as the first Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State, where she served from 2010-2017.  Mayor Fenty of D.C. appointed her as the first Director for the Department on Disability Services, where she was responsible for the Developmental Disability Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration.

She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of legislation, such as Section 504, the Individuals with Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which have been advancing the inclusion of disabled people in the US and around the world and fighting to end discrimination against all those with disabilities.

Judy graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY in 1969 and received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. She has received numerous awards including being the first recipient of the Henry B. Betts Award in recognition of efforts to significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and the Max Starkloff Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council on Independent Living. She has been awarded numerous honorary doctorates.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Kelly Phillips Erb, attorney, writer, and blogger, to discuss industry trends, the advice she would give lawyers when they pitch the media, how she sources stories, and what it has been like being a woman in a predominantly male sector of the industry.

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Kelly Phillips Erb is a Team Lead for Insights & Commentary at Bloomberg Tax. Her job is to tell stories about tax and help tax professionals share their stories. She is also a managing shareholder at The Erb Law Firm, P.C., where she focuses on tax law. She earned her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from Temple University School of Law. While at law school, Kelly interned at the estates attorney division of the Internal Revenue Service, where she participated in the review and audit of federal estate tax returns.

Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in a wide range of media outlets including CNN Money, National Public Radio’s Marketplace, BBC, Time, Forbes Magazine, Esquire, Martha Stewart’s Living, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, and the ABA Journal. In 2012, she was named to the Philadelphia Business Journal's '40 Under 40' class; the award recognizes people who have made significant accomplishments in their profession and who are involved in their community. She is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is licensed to practice in front of the U.S. Tax Court.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Sarah Dadush and Olivia Windham Stewart, leaders of the Business and Human Rights Law Program at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey. They discuss ESG for global businesses and innovative legal mechanisms for improving the social and environmental performance of transnational corporations.

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Sarah Dadush is the founding director of the Law School's Business & Human Rights Law Program. She is also a co-leader of an ABA Business Law Section Working Group that has developed a comprehensive toolkit for upgrading international supply contracts to protect workers' human rights better. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of business and human rights, and her work explores innovative legal mechanisms for improving the social and environmental performance of transnational corporations.

Olivia Windham Stewart is an independent business and human rights specialist, Senior Fellow, and Deputy Director of the Business and Human Rights Law Program. She works on a range of projects to enhance corporate accountability and supply chain due diligence across sectors. Olivia has worked extensively in production countries worldwide, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Phil Goldberg, Office Managing Partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, to discuss the importance of crafting compelling messaging around litigation.

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Phil Goldberg is the office managing partner of Shook in Washington, D.C. and co-chair of its Public Policy Practice Group. With more than 25 years of experience on high stakes and high-profile liability-related public policy, public affairs and public relations issues, he has become a leading voice for common sense liability policies. His practice involves counseling businesses and their trade associations on some of the most cutting-edge liability issues of the day.

As part of his practice, Phil has filed amicus briefs for many of the most influential trade and civil justice groups with courts at every level, from the U.S. Supreme Court to the U.S. Courts of Appeals and state appellate courts. He has testified before Congress and state legislatures, authored leading legal scholarship and spoken at judicial and attorney conferences. He also has become a resource for reporters who write on liability issues.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Patrick Cusick, Director of Law Firm Services at Armanino LLP, to discuss important considerations for law firms when creating a sustainable succession plan that serves the needs of stakeholders.

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With more than 15 years of experience working in finance and administration within law firms, Patrick now enjoys working exclusively with law firms, offering outsourced accounting and financial solutions, and consulting on a variety of strategic initiatives including succession planning.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with David Hubbard, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Verizon, to discuss what it takes to build an inclusive and authentic workplace.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Carlton Dixon, Founder and CEO of Reveal Suits, to discuss the risks and rewards of starting a business and following your passion.

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Reveal Suits is a minority and veteran-owned business, 100% committed to earning your trust and business. Carlton is the foundation of Reveal Suits. Raised by a single mother in the Dallas inner-city, Carlton learned early on the value of hard work and perseverance. A former student-athlete himself, Carlton has made it his life's work to inspire young men and women to achieve their goals, first as a coach, then as an athletic director, and now as the owner/CEO of Reveal Suits.‍

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Sneha Ashtikar-Roy, the head of marketing at Paris and New York-based Jus Mundi, to discuss how legal technology is shaping the future of the profession.

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Sneha Ashtikar-Roy is the head of marketing at Paris and New York-based Jus Mundi, a legal tech company that helps the legal community to build winning strategies with exclusive global legal intelligence and AI-powered search technology.

Sneha began her career as an associate at an international law firm in Paris where she gained invaluable experience in the legal industry. However, after five years, her creative instincts led her to switch careers and pursue marketing.

Sneha is passionate about discussing a variety of topics related to marketing and business development, including networking, revenue growth, strategies, and personal branding. In addition to her love for marketing, she has a strong interest in learning new languages and immersing herself in foreign cultures. While she has yet to master Japanese, Sneha enjoys cooking international cuisines and exploring new foods from around the world.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Terry Mutchler, Chair of Transparency Law and Public Data Practice at Obermayer, to discuss her trailblazing career helping clients navigate open records law.

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Terry Mutchler represents government officials, media and multinational corporations. Terry is a former Associated Press journalist who traded her press pass for a law license. She served as Assistant Attorney General in Illinois and was tapped by Gov. Ed Rendell as the Founding Executive Director of the Office of Open Records enforcing open records laws. 

Terry started the nation's first Transparency Law practice, serves as Vice President of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, and was recently named the 2023 Pennsylvania Attorney of the Year. 

In addition, Terry is a recipient of Corporate Counsel’s 2023 Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards in the Lifetime Achievement category. Also known as WIPL, the awards honor lawyers who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law. Terry will be recognized at an awards dinner on Oct. 18 as part of the WIPL Conference in New Orleans.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Phillip Greer, CEO of Best Lawyers, to discuss how lawyers can use peer review rankings to grow their client base and stay on top of industry trends.

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Phillip Greer has driven the continual evolution of Best Lawyers since joining in 2005. By tapping into his training as an engineer, Phil created the company's first content management system to take the organization and its products from analog to digital. Phil has helmed the company since 2011 and was named CEO in 2018. Through the years, he has led international expansion strategies and ensured lawyers around the world receive the recognition they deserve through the various Best Lawyers offerings. Phil and his team have built a multimillion-dollar company with clients ranging from AmLaw 200 firms to sole practitioners. Best Lawyers was the first to embrace the transition to digital platforms, much to the acclaim of the audience and readership. His proudest achievement is in the consistency of the products and the inscrutable Best Lawyers peer review methodology.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Jason Barnwell, an attorney in Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs department, to discuss tech and innovation in the legal industry, diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal profession, and the importance of storytelling to the practice of law.

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Jason leads Microsoft’s law firm engagement strategy. His work is focused on creating deeper engagement with and more value from Microsoft’s outside counsel relationships. He partners with Microsoft’s Legal Operations team to build a virtuous value cycle built upon empowering Microsoft’s legal professionals to: select the right partners; teach them about their business; ensure they assemble teams with talent and diverse perspectives; create incentives to innovate and work efficiently; measure partner performance and work quality; and collect, re-use, and build upon knowledge assets.

He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and his J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law. According to Jason’s Twitter bio he is a husband, father, attorney, engineer, tinkerer, nerd, cyclist, volunteer, and someone who helps Microsoft innovate the practice of law.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Patricia Hennessy, Partner at Barton Gilman, to discuss the wide range of legal tools education lawyers employ to serve the needs of children.

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Pat serves as the co-chair of Barton Gilman’s Education Law Group. She is an education reform advocate and activist, serving on the National Litigation Council for the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and as a long-term member of the Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys. She also works with private schools and boarding schools and was a member of the board of the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools.  Pat is also active with issues related to education reform and school choice in Maryland.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Ashley Gorbulja-Maldonado, Public Affairs Specialist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Founder of GuideOn Education to discuss her time serving her country as an Army National Guard veteran and her continued work as a leading voice in supporting America’s military-connected community.

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Ashley proudly served her country as an Army National Guard veteran for over eight years and continues to serve her community as a leading voice in supporting America's military-connected community. After reviewing America's veteran systems' inconsistent patterns, Ashley realized that a change needed to be made. Today, Ashley is the CEO and Founder of GuideOn Education. This service builds meaningful and sustainable veteran programming in higher education, nonprofits, and corporations wanting to tap into the military market.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Daniel Clarke, Senior Business Development and Clients & Markets Manager at Kennedys CMK, to discuss navigating the nuances of client service and business development in the global legal market.

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Daniel Clarke is a Senior Marketing & Business Development professional with 18+ years’ experience in client relationship development, business development, sector and legal practice strategy, client feedback, marketing communications, and team leadership.

Having lived and worked in the UK, Singapore, and New York and worked in several countries across Europe, Daniel is very experienced in leading and implementing multi-faceted, regional and global business development and client development strategies.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Brenda Plowman, chief marketing officer at Fasken and the president of the Legal Marketing Association, to discuss what it means to be a legal marketer and the impact of legal marketing on the business of law.

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In her day job, Brenda is the CMO for Fasken, a Canadian-based international law firm with ten offices. She drives change, ensuring that the purpose for transformation is meaningful to clients, lawyers, and staff alike. She leads a talented group of marketing, business development, digital operations, and communications professionals across the firm. For more than 16 years, she has launched brands and led the development of many programs and initiatives, including Fasken's Client Service Excellence program. Before joining the firm, Brenda attended and taught marketing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She also founded a successful business consultancy, served as the VP of US sales and marketing for a growing company, and has led many respected organizations. Brenda has a small farm in Canada.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Bert Kaminski, director of legal for Google Cloud. They discuss artificial intelligence, contract automation, and how counsel can adapt their role in light of increasingly powerful AI-based tools.

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Bert Kaminski is a seasoned legal counsel in the technology industry, specializing in advanced and emerging fields such as cloud computing, internet of things, artificial intelligence, data science & machine learning.  Bert is a frequent public speaker on these topics, and has served as a senior advisor to all levels of business and executive management in leading technology companies, such as Google, GE Digital and Oracle.

Bert serves as a Board Advisor to SafePorter LLC, a technology company specializing in privacy-centric data analytics and tools for diversity and inclusion tracking. Bert leads the Technology Law committee of the New Jersey chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and previously served on the chapter’s board of directors and as its President. 

As a Director within Google’s legal organization, Bert leads a team that supports commercial enterprise transactions for key industry segments of Google Cloud, including financial services, healthcare and the public sector.

Prior to joining Google, Bert was General Counsel and a member of the executive leadership team of ServiceMax Inc., a California based cloud application provider, where he was responsible for all legal affairs of the company including privacy and technology related legal issues.

Earlier, Bert was Chief Commercial Counsel at GE Digital LLC, a General Electric company, where he served as GE Digital’s privacy leader and specialized in the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing, and software licensing.

Bert began his in-house legal career at Oracle. Bert established and led Oracle’s Cloud Legal team, and as Assistant General Counsel, served as the principal attorney globally for Oracle’s cloud computing and information technology managed services businesses. 

Bert served as an appointed member of the Privacy Bar Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional for European data protection (CIPP/E).

A graduate of Fordham University’s joint J.D./M.B.A. program, Bert earned a certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and its implications for business strategy. Bert earned a bachelor’s degree with honors at New York University (NYU), in the field of economics.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Lydia Petrakis, Corporate Counsel and Digital Strategist at Microsoft, to discuss how generative AI is transforming the work processes of in-house legal teams and law firms.

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Lydia Petrakis is Senior Corporate Counsel and Digital Strategist in Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) department on the CELA Technology and Operations team. Her team is dedicated to driving industry-leading innovation to shape the future of Microsoft’s legal practice. Lydia’s key responsibilities include serving as strategist, driver, change agent, storyteller, and ambassador. She focuses on culture, processes, technology, and external engagement to advance the digital and AI transformation journey. Prior to this role, Lydia served as a product attorney in Microsoft’s business and engineering teams responsible for Office 365 products and services.

In this episode of On Record PR, Leslie Richards goes on record with Aliza Shatzman, the president and founder of the Legal Accountability Project, to discuss how to help law clerks receive the support they need to move forward in their careers.

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Aliza Shatzman is the president and founder of the Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences and extending support and resources to those who do not. Aliza earned her BA from Williams College and her JD from Washington University School of Law. After law school, Aliza clerked in DC Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. In March 2022, Aliza submitted written testimony for a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the lack of workplace protections in the federal judiciary, detailing her personal experience with harassment and retaliation by a former DC judge, in order to advocate for the Judiciary Accountability Act legislation that would extend Title VII protections to judiciary employees, including law clerks. Aliza now writes and speaks regularly about judicial accountability and clerkships. She has been published in numerous law journals and other forums.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with succession consultant David Wood to discuss implementing programs that secure the prosperity of law firms for future leadership.

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In the leadup to his retirement from AmLaw 100 firm Barnes & Thornburg, after a 38-year career as a corporate trial lawyer, David Wood transitioned his entire $6M practice to younger partners who his clients have come to know and trust.

David consults with law firms and retiring partners, helping them accomplish what he did: The transition of large corporate clients to capable successors. He has a unique perspective on retirement succession, inasmuch as he’s actually achieved the transition of a large law practice to younger partners. He is also intimately familiar with the obstacles and politics that managing partners of law firms must overcome to implement effective retirement succession programs. His task-specific training is the “How” of retirement succession.

In this episode of On Record PR, Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Professors Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa Materson from U.C. Davis to discuss their work in women and gender history.

[Trigger warning: This audio recording contains material about sexual violence.]

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Professors Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa Materson are historians at U.C. Davis who specialize in women's and gender history. Together they co-edited The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History, which consists of 30 analytical chapters covering topics such as women in U.S. imperialism, interracial unions and state power, gender and sexuality in popular culture and women's work under free and unfree labor regimes.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Marcie Borgal Schunk, president and founder of The Tilt Institute to discuss how law firms can leverage data for competitive advantage and implement strategies for sustainable growth.

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The Tilt Institute specializes in helping law firms shepherd significant transformation. Marcie trains and coaches leadership teams and emerging leaders to create dynamic plans, shift mindsets and motivate action. She is an ALM Legal Intelligence Fellow, a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, and a frequent speaker on legal industry trends.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Jeseñia Brown, Senior Manager of Pro Bono and Corporate Social Responsibility at Shearman and Sterling, to discuss the most effective ways to maximize a law firm’s contributions to the communities in which it operates.

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Jeseñia Brown serves as the global manager for corporate social responsibility at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. As a member of the firm’s global pro bono and corporate social responsibility team, her focus is on employee community engagement and volunteering, coordinating environmental and sustainability efforts, charitable giving, and awareness building.

Jeseñia is a graduate of Rollins College with a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology, and holds a master's degree in Nonprofit Management from Thomas Edison State University. Jeseñia serves on the Bridgewater Somerville branch board of the Greater Somerset County YMCA as well as serving as an officer of the Manville Music Organization.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Don E.N. Gibson, President and CEO of Kavi Sports, to talk about the evolution of sports and law.

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Don E.N. Gibson is an accomplished attorney, business executive, and entrepreneur in the sports and entertainment industries. Don has represented entertainers, athletes, and companies in business and legal matters, and spent more than 20 years in senior leadership positions with major sports organizations. He was an attorney in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, then became Vice President and General Counsel, and Senior VP and Acting President of MLB Properties. Following his tenure with MLB, Don served as the Chief Executive of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, where he was responsible for all day-to-day administration of the institution, including management of the $103 million new Hall of Fame Riverfront development project. Don is currently President and CEO of Kavi Sports, a consulting firm that provides strategic planning, licensing, intellectual property management and development, and business development services to clients.

Don is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, where he teaches courses in sports law and business. He has been twice elected by the students as Faculty of the Year, most recently in 2023. Don holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Bucknell University, and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA School of Law where he was a member and Chief Comments Editor of the Law Review.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Amy M. Gardner, a Certified Career and Career Transitions Coach and Team Development and Leadership Consultant with Apochromatik, to discuss building and engaging teams.

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Amy M. Gardner works with law firms and other employers to reengage teams and help them thrive by improving relationships, strengthening emotional intelligence, building leadership skills, developing resilience, having difficult conversations, and more. Amy also works with lawyers one-on-one and in small group Future in Focus Attorney Masterminds to advance in their roles or transition to a new one. She regularly delivers trainings on subjects including time and stress management, managing conflict, building trust, goal achievement, emotional intelligence, and career topics.

Amy is a former Big Law associate, partner at a mid-size Chicago firm, and dean of students at the University of Chicago Law School. She holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University, JD from the University of Chicago, and BA from Luther College. She holds certifications in team and leadership coaching, 1:1 coaching, and assessment certifications including the EQi-2.0.

Her career and goal achievement advice has been featured in media including numerous podcasts, ABA publications, Bustle, Corporette, Glassdoor, Health, Law360, Monster, NBC, and Women’s Running magazine. Amy’s service to the legal profession includes serving on the Illinois Committee on Character and Fitness and the Governance Committee for the Institute for Well-Being in Law.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Whittney Beard, Master Certified Coach at Volta Talent Strategies, to discuss the benefits of coaching, the impact of COVID-19 on the need for coaching services, and how coaching can support lawyer retention.

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Whittney brings over 14 years of professional coaching experience to her coaching and consulting practice at Volta. She spent eight years exclusively coaching lawyers at Orrick in a broad range of areas, including leadership, team management, business development, and effective communication.

At Volta, Whittney continues to coach partners and lawyers at all levels. In addition, she developed and co-leads the Volta Coach Training program, an International Coach Federation-accredited program which aims to establish and expand the culture of coaching within law firms by providing tailored coach training to lawyers and law firm staff.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Lori Mihalich-Levin, attorney and CEO of Mindful Return, to discuss navigating the back-to-work transition from parental leave.

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Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, believes in empowering working parents. She is the founder and CEO of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, and co-host of the Parents at Work Podcast. She is mama to two wonderful red-headed boys (ages 9 and 11) and is a health care lawyer in private practice. Her thought leadership has been featured in publications including Forbes, The Washington Post, New York Times Parenting, and Thrive Global.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women, to discuss her journey of becoming president and CEO, the impact of grassroots movements around the world, and what International Women's Day means to her.

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An attorney by training, Latanya began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Global Fund for Women, Latanya was the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Lantayna worked for eight years as a human rights officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (also known as UNICEF) and for 10 years with the United States Agency for International Development. She served as a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and continues to fight for the human rights of women.

Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Thomas McHugh, an associate at Bressler, Amery & Ross and a member of the firm’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) committee, to discuss why pro bono is important to the legal profession, advice for young lawyers interested in pro bono work, and the firm’s important work for Habitat for Humanity, the ABA Military Pro Bono Project, Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, and the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF).

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Thomas is an associate in the Securities and Litigation practice groups at Bressler, Amery & Ross (Bressler). An alumnus of the Bressler summer law clerk program, Thomas joined the firm upon receiving his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

While at Notre Dame, Thomas was a member of the 7th Circuit Moot Court Team. As part of the team, Thomas briefed and argued a habeas petition before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Thomas also served as the Symposium Editor for the Journal of Legislation during his final year of law school.

Thomas is joining us today to talk about the pro bono work of the firm and its positive impact on relationship development within the firm. 

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kushraj “Kush” Cheema, North America Research Director at Chambers and Partners, a guide offering market-leading reviews, insights and rankings of the top law firms and lawyers across key practice areas.

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Kushraj “Kush” Cheema, North America Research Director at Chambers and Partners, a guide offering market-leading reviews, insights and rankings of the top law firms and lawyers across key practice areas.

In his current position, Kush plays a pivotal role in continuing to develop the Chambers USA presence in the United States and strengthening its relationships with law firms of all sizes across the US. He works closely with lawyers and business development teams to ensure that Chambers rankings continue to reflect the legal market and identify emerging practice areas and other opportunities across the legal profession.

Kush previously held the role of Head of USA Research Development, a position he took when Chambers opened its New York office in early 2020. Prior to that, he worked as a USA Deputy Editor and Research Analyst.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Aihong Yu, Chief Privacy Counsel of CDK Global, to discuss how embracing privacy and security measures can accelerate growth for businesses.

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Aihong Yu oversees CDK Global’s privacy, AI and data governance programs.  

Aihong grew up in China. She received her bachelor's and master's law degrees from Peking University and taught law in a top law school in China for a few years before she came to the U.S. She obtained her law degree in the University of Chicago Law School and has since practiced law in the U.S. and China for nearly 27 years. Aihong started as a corporate associate and worked with two prominent U.S. law firms in Chicago, Hong Kong and Shanghai. She has extensive experience in M&A, venture capital, private equity investments, and technology transactions. She represented U.S. companies such as GE, Warner Brothers, etc. to negotiate some complex and high-profile deals in China. During her in-house career with ADP, Aihong added corporate governance and antibribery compliance to her practice portfolio. When CDK was spun off from ADP to become an independent public company in 2014, Aihong volunteered to become the first privacy lawyer in the company. She has enjoyed the fun as well as the challenges of being a privacy and data security lawyer in the past 10 years. 

Aihong has been a speaker at privacy and cybersecurity events, including the ACC Annual Meeting and the Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference in 2023. She will speak again next month at the ACC Cybersecurity Summit in Los Angeles. 

Gina Rubel goes on record with author Brian Cuban, to discuss his book, The Addicted Lawyer, and the addiction crisis among lawyers.

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Brian Cuban, the younger brother of Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, is a Dallas based attorney, author and addiction recovery advocate. He is graduate of Penn State University and The University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Brian has been in long term recovery from alcohol, cocaine and bulimia since April of 2007. He left the practice of law and now writes and speaks on recovery topics, for the legal profession and on recovery in general

His first book, “Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder,” chronicles his first-hand experiences living with and recovering from 27 years of eating disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Brian’s most recent, best-selling book, “The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow, & Redemption,” is an un-flinching look back at how addiction and other mental health issues destroyed his career as a once successful lawyer and how he and others in the profession redefined their lives in recovery and found redemption.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Katharine Manning, author, and president of Blackbird DC, to discuss empathy in the workplace and how to support co-workers experiencing trauma.

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Katharine Manning is the President of Blackbird DC, which provides training and consultation on empathy at work. She is the author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job. She has worked on issues of trauma and victimization for more than 25 years.

As a senior attorney advisor with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys for 15 years, Kate guided the Justice Department through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation. Some of the cases she advised on include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, the Madoff investment fraud, and the federal case against Larry Nassar, doctor for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team.

Kate now uses her expertise to help organizations prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and clients who may be in trauma. A member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and California, Manning also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Leander Dolphin, Managing Partner of Shipman & Goodwin, to discuss the evolution of the relationship between in-house counsel and law firms, and the importance of utilizing a business mindset to adopt a client-first approach.

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Leander Dolphin is a partner in Shipman & Goodwin’s School Law Practice Group. In private practice and as former vice president of human resources and general counsel for the Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Leander has dedicated her career to advising educational institutions and organizations that foster the development of children, youth and young adults. An effective litigator and counselor, she draws on her dispute-resolution experience to help clients identify shared goals and find common ground with staff, parents, students and community stakeholders.

Leander advises universities, colleges, public school districts, independent schools, and other public- and private-sector clients on the full range of education and employment matters. She also works with clients to develop and implement effective non-discrimination policies and to address teacher, staff and student discipline concerns, confidentiality and privacy issues in education, and special education disputes, among other areas.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Matthew Krayton, the founder of Publitics, to discuss how to craft effective political messaging in a polarized environment.

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Publitics is a public affairs, political PR and strategy consultancy which provides counsel to campaigns, candidates, elected officials, executives, founders, organizations, and brands. Most recently, Matt worked with Biden For President on special projects, including having helped create the viral "We Just Did” hat and collateral for endorsements, including NBA star Ben Simmons. His work on the campaign was recognized with the Campaigns and Elections magazine Stanley F Reed Award. 

Matt is an adjunct professor in Centenary University's business department teaching in their first-of-its-kind social media program. Prior to founding Publitics, Matt worked at Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll. He later taught freshman seminars for political science students, and Law in the Liberal Arts program as an adjunct instructor. 

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Charlène Gisèle, a high-performance coach, to discuss how attorneys and other professionals can avoid burnout, achieve their goals, and maintain their well-being.

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Charlène Gisèle is an award-winning keynote speaker and has built an international reputation as a burnout prevention advisor, which has earned her global invitations to speak at the most prestigious stages, law firms, and financial services institutions. Charlène is known for her ability to inspire, engage, entertain, and leave her audiences with strategies to maximize and sustain high performance. She is a master NLP coach/Burnout Advisor to the leading organization that founded a unique Burnout Blueprint method. She specializes in empowering individuals and businesses to maximize their sustainable potential by optimizing wellness, building resilience, and optimizing performance. Charlène was featured in many publications and has also appeared on various podcast shows where she has shared valuable insights and strategies on topics such as biohacking, high performance, burnout prevention, and recovery. 

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Lesley Pate Marlin, Associate General Counsel for Labor and Employment at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, about how to build individual and collective resilience.

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Lesley is an experienced, senior in-house attorney with a specialty in labor and employment law. She works for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as their Associate General Counsel for Labor and Employment. FINRA is a not-for-profit organization, overseen by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through the regulation of brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States.

In her role at FINRA, Lesley provides day-to-day practical and strategic legal advice, develops or updates policies and procedures to comply with applicable laws, responds to administrative charges and demand letters, handles government investigations, and conducts training. She speaks frequently on various workplace issues, including labor and employment law topics, culture and psychological safety, diversity and inclusion, resilience and career development.  She participated in the Association of Corporate Counsel’s TED Masterclass program, where she spoke about the power of resilience. 

Beyond her professional engagements, Lesley is committed to giving back to her community. She serves as the Vice President/President-Elect of the Board of Directors for the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kathleen Fisher Enyeart, Counsel at Lathrop GPM, to discuss the challenges of complying with health care regulations in a complex and rapidly changing industry.

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Kathleen Fisher Enyeart, a seasoned litigator and former in-house attorney, is Counsel in Lathrop GPM's Litigation practice. Clients – many of them large corporations – trust Kathleen's experience and advice in guiding them through some of the most high-stakes matters companies can face, internal investigations, as well as civil and criminal investigations at both the state and federal levels. She has represented transportation companies, religious organizations, construction companies and educational institutions, among others. In white-collar and government investigative or regulatory matters, Kathleen represents businesses, owners and executives, including physicians, attorneys, dentists, accountants and other professionals. Her significant experience as a prosecutor, white-collar defense lawyer, and in-house counsel helps clients to navigate risks and challenges while maintaining their integrity and strengths.

In this joint episode of On Record PR and Legal Internet Solutions Incorporated (LISI)’s All the Things podcast, Gina Rubel goes on record with Robyn Addis, COO and CMBDO of Legal Internet Solutions Incorporated, to talk about the latest trends impacting the legal marketing and public relations industry.

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Robyn Addis has worked in legal marketing at two of the largest firms in Philly, leading a marketing team, creating and implementing firm-wide marketing expense and ROI tracking systems, and designing and executing hundreds of marketing and business development events. In 2019, she joined Legal Internet Solutions Incorporated as Chief Operating Officer/Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, taking the skills she learned in Big Law and adapting them for small to midsize firms.

At LISI, Robyn developed a strategic plan outlining five new lines of business, a reimagined revenue/pricing model, and the infrastructure required. The result in 2020 was a record-breaking 57% growth in her first year.

In addition to her role at LISI, Robyn coaches women to achieve career fulfillment, she serves as Director-at-Large for the Legal Marketing Association Northeast Region Board, and she runs a household of three children, a first-responder husband, a one-eyed rescue cat, and a bratty cockapoo.

Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Samantha Rothaus, an associate at Davis+Gilbert LLP, to discuss the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, why access to identity documents that correctly match a person’s name and gender are important, what challenges are unique to the transgender community in the process of changing a name, and why pro bono work is important to the legal profession.

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Davis+Gilbert LLP is a strategically focused, full-service mid-sized law firm of more than 130 lawyers. Founded over a century ago and located in New York City, the firm represents a wide array of clients – ranging from start-ups to some of the world's largest public companies and financial institutions – throughout the United States and internationally. Davis+Gilbert is widely regarded as the #1 law firm for the marketing communications industry.

Davis+Gilbert is a partner law firm of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, also known as TLDEF, and the organization's Name Change Project. It helps provides pro bono legal name change services to low-income transgender people, including asylum seekers, asylees, refugees, and immigrants, through partnerships with some of the nation's most prestigious law firms and corporate law departments to assist in obtaining legal name changes.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Roberta “Bobbi” Liebenberg, senior partner at Fine, Kapan and Black, to discuss steps law firms can take to achieve better diversity within their organizations.

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Bobbi is a senior partner at Fine, Kapan and Black, a law firm in Philadelphia. She is also a principal in The Red Bee Group, a women-owned consulting group devoted to helping clients attain DE&I objectives.

In her law practice, Bobbi focuses her practice on antitrust, class actions, and complex commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. She has devoted considerable time and effort throughout her career to the advancement of women in the profession. She has researched and co-authored groundbreaking, widely cited empirical studies on the underrepresentation of women litigators as lead counsel, the disproportionately high rate of attrition of senior women lawyers, and the effect of the pandemic on women lawyers.

Bobbi has served as chair of numerous organizations devoted to gender equality in the profession, including the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the ABA Gender Equity Task Force, the ABA Presidential Initiative on Achieving Long Term Careers for Women in Law, DirectWomen (the only organization devoted to increasing the number of women attorneys on corporate boards), the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations’ respective committees on women in the profession, and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness.

In recognition of her professional accomplishments and contributions to gender equality for women lawyers, Bobbi has received numerous prestigious awards and honors, including the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession; the Sandra Day O'Connor Award and Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association; the Lynette Norton Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association; the Florence K. Murray Award from the National Association of Women Judges; the Hortense Ward Courageous Leader Award from the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas School of Law; the Martha Fay Africa Golden Hammer Award from the ABA’s Law Practice Division; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Legal Intelligencer.  She was named by Pennsylvania’s Governor as a "Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania,” and The National Law Journal named her as one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America” and one of the “Elite Women of the Plaintiffs’ Bar.”

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Daniel Smallwood, the head of content for LegalESG.com and the Legal ESG Summit, and Pamela Cone, Social Impact and Sustainability Sage at Amity Advisory. They discuss what ESG is, why it matters, and how law firms can get on board with ESG considerations.

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Daniel Smallwood is a 20-year legal research, content, and publishing professional who has been responsible for some of the most well-regarded and innovative law firm practice management and legal operations, events, and publications. Pamela Cone works with law firm leaders to address the growing expectations of clients, prospects, employees, recruits and communities - around their firms' ESG, Social Impact and Sustainability programs.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Susan Freeman, CEO & founder of The Conscious Inclusion Company, to discuss how companies can crash their outdated, nondiverse and non-inclusive operating systems.

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Susan Freeman is the CEO and founder of The Conscious Inclusion Company and its subsidiaries, Executive Institute on Inclusion (for large companies) and Diversity University (for small to midsize companies and firms). Her mission (and passion) is to help people achieve workplace equity in professional environments.

The Conscious Inclusion Company, is a woman-owned and minority-owned business dedicated to helping companies succeed from a business perspective while doing the right thing, creating equity in the workplace, and equality in the world.

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Hillary A. Sale is a recognized expert in leadership and corporate governance. She has been a member of the FINRA Board of Governors since 2016, where she Chairs the Regulatory Policy Committee and serves on the Executive, Nominating and Governance, Compensation, and Regulatory Operations Committees. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Foundation Press, an educational publisher of scholarly books, and a director with DirectWomen, a nonprofit focused on increasing the presence of women on public company boards. Hillary is the Chair of the DirectWomen Board Institute and serves on DirectWomen’s Executive, Nominating and Governance, and Selection Committees.

Hillary is also the Associate Dean for Strategy, an award-winning scholar and teacher, and the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and a Professor of Management at Georgetown University. As an industry-focused academic, she writes and speaks about leadership and corporate governance. In the spring of 2017, she was the Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, teaching Women’s Leadership and Corporate Boards and Governance.

She is an accomplished business partner who speaks to and works with industry groups and academic audiences and was selected by the St. Louis Business Journal as a “2014 Most Influential Business Woman.” In addition to running leadership and governance programs, Hillary consults regularly with CEOs and C-suite executives on leadership, governance, strategy, inclusion and diversity, and company culture. She also develops custom executive education programs and works with business leaders in programs at Harvard Law, where she Chairs the Women’s Leadership Initiative, and at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and the Law Center.

Hillary graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and holds a master’s degree in Economics from Boston University, where she also completed her B.A., summa cum laude. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, she was the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and a Professor of Management at Washington University in St. Louis. Hillary also worked in the government investigations and corporate and securities class actions areas at WilmerHale, LLP and in Massachusetts politics.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record Deborah Willig, the managing partner of Willig, Williams & Davidson, who talks about today’s fight for the rights of union workers. Deb shares that unions and workers today are in the fight of their lives, battling to retain jobs, increase wages, protect benefits, and strengthen the right to organize.

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A lifelong champion of workers, Deborah Willig has represented unions for more than four decades. She has negotiated on behalf of museum workers, the National Women's Soccer League Players Association, teachers, firefighters, teamsters, hospitality workers and so many more. Deb has shattered the glass ceiling for women and gay lawyers repeatedly. She was the first woman chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and has been recognized for her work and advocacy with many lifetime achievement awards.

Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Christopher Stewart, VP & Assistant General Counsel at AIG Investments and former Notre Dame football player, to discuss what inspired his passion for law, how he balanced the demands of football and law school, how he leverages his legal experience to support passion projects, and what advice Christopher would give himself as a first-year associate.

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Chris is a Vice President-Assistant General Counsel for AIG Investments in New York, New York. Prior to his role in-house, Chris worked as a corporate associate at both White & Case and Sullivan & Cromwell where is practice focused on financing and developing various transactions in the telecommunications, infrastructure, and oil and gas industries. He has acted for many of the world's largest institutions and corporate entities in several international commercial transactions and has experience advising such clients on various M&A, Private Equity, and Capital Markets related matters.

Chris graduated from Notre Dame Law School. During his 1L year, Chris was credited as being the only law student in the country to play major Division I college football simultaneously, and prior to graduating from Notre Dame Law School, Chris enjoyed an abbreviated career as an Offensive Lineman in the National Football League. Chris also received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Jennifer Schaller, the Managing Director and Co-founder of The National Law Review online edition, to discuss how The National Law Review online edition came to fruition and how to capitalize on the various trends arising in law firm marketing.

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As one of the highest traffic volume legal news websites in the U.S., averaging over 2 million visitors per month, The National Law Review publishes original bi-lined content from its own writers and from attorneys and other professionals.

Prior to The National Law Review, Jennifer served as associate corporate counsel/director at CNA Surety. She also served in various marketing and business development roles as a Vice President of Aon Services Group. Jennifer started her legal career as an associate attorney with SmithAmundsen, LLC in Chicago.  She is a regular speaker and writer on corporate legal department management and legal marketing issues and recently served as the Chair of the Chicago local steering committee of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA).

Gina Rubel goes on record with David Burgess, publishing director at The Legal 500, to discuss law firm marketing, industry trends and law firm differentiation.

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David is the Publishing Director of The Legal 500 and has worked there for 17 years, and in that time has been involved with every aspect of The Legal 500 portfolio, from driving the launch in the US, to the launch of the GC Powerlist series, an events business that up until 2020 hosted 150 events in 50 countries.

David travels widely across the world each year talking to law firms and GCs to ensure The Legal 500 delivers what the clients need and is a regular fixture at conferences.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Katrina Dewey, Founder and CEO of Lawdragon, a legal media company that combines the best in legal news reporting on top lawyers and public interest efforts with one of the world's most admired brands in legal recognition.

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Katrina founded Lawdragon in 2005 to create the best resource in the world for news and information on lawyers. She is incredibly proud of the amazing team at the forefront of a media company that is proudly inclusive and forward-thinking. She has had the pleasure of editing some of the best legal writers in the world throughout her career.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Dr. Joel Davis Brown, Chief Visionary Officer at Pneumos, LLC, to discuss practical strategies leaders can employ to foster an inclusive work environment.

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Dr. Joel Davis Brown is the Chief Visionary Officer at Pneumos, LLC, a management consulting and coaching firm whose clients have included LinkedIn and the United Nations. Joel is a co-founder of the Global Inclusion Praxis Model, as well as the Global Inclusion Certification Program, a global institute designed to train practitioners on how to facilitate equity and work anywhere around the world. He is frequently tapped for keynote speaking and is the author of the groundbreaking book, The Souls of Queer Folk: How Understanding LGBTQ+ Culture Can Transform Your Leadership Practice.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Cesca Antonelli, editor-in-chief at Bloomberg Industry Group, to discuss Bloomberg Industry Group reporting on legal and government news, media relations, and trends.

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Cesca Antonelli is editor-in-chief at Bloomberg Industry Group, leading an organization of more than 200 journalists and analysts who cover legal, tax and government issues. Cesca has spent more than 20 years in the Bloomberg family. She helped build bureaus and ran teams around the world. She worked in newspapers before that, back when you read them on paper.

Bloomberg Industry Group has transformed from a traditional publisher known as BNA to a company that offers an unmatched mix of news and analysis delivered through cutting-edge technology platforms. We have three main businesses now -- government, tax and accounting, and law. We arm those folks with expertise, industry knowledge, content, and technology. That enables them to take decisive action and make the most of every opportunity.

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Marie-Cristine Kaptan, Senior Associate at Bär & Karrer AG, to discuss her Ironman journey and maintaining balance in her personal and professional life.

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Marie-Cristine Kaptan has been with Bär & Karrer since May 2022. Previously, she worked at another major law firm in Zurich for 2.5 years (mainly in banking and litigation). In addition, she completed an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business (with a focus on, inter alia, sustainability) and gained some strategy consulting experience at Boston Consulting Group. At Bär & Karrer, she works in Capital Markets, Listed Companies and Public M&A, whereas she is specialized on corporate governance and legal ESG matters. She regularly publishes in these fields.

Gina Rubel goes on record with Joan Block, co-founder, and senior advisor to the Hepatitis B Foundation, to discuss Hepatitis Awareness Month, AAPI Heritage Month and the Hepatitis B Foundation.

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Joan is a nationally recognized leader in hepatitis B outreach, education, and patient advocacy. She and her husband, Dr. Timothy Block, started the Hepatitis B Foundation when Joan was diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B.

The Hepatitis B Foundation is a national 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure and improving the lives of those affected by hepatitis B worldwide through research, education, public health and patient advocacy.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Éva Kerecsen, Chief Legal Counsel at NNG LLC, to talk about navigating the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.

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Éva Kerecsen is a highly experienced legal professional with a passion for ensuring transparent and compliant operations in the dynamic world of technology. At NNG LLC, a prominent company in the automotive software industry, Éva has been managing and coordinating the entire legal activity of the organization for almost 10 years. She oversees approximately 800 legal issues per year, spanning copyright, e-commerce, IT law, employment law, commercial law, and data protection. Additionally, she has played a crucial role in the expansion of NNG's global presence, coordinating legal activities and advising NNG subsidiaries worldwide.

Prior to her current role, they held the position of Legal Advisor at NNG LLC, where they provided invaluable guidance on various legal matters, including employment law, IP law, and marketing and communication-related issues. During this time, Éva was actively involved in contract negotiation, lease agreements, and the development of the company's trademark portfolio.

Drawing from an impressive educational background, Éva holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from Pázmány Péter University, Faculty of Law, and a Master's degree in Information Technology Law (LLM) from the University of Pécs. They have also expanded their knowledge through specialized courses, including an Introduction to US Law program at The George Washington University Law School and Law and Psychology at Orac Academy, furthermore ongoing studies in Data Protection Law at Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law.

With a keen focus on bridging the gap between law and technology, Éva is a sought-after expert in the legal field, leveraging their expertise to address the intersection of legal issues and technological advancements.

Sarah Larson goes on record with Holly Hotchner, President and CEO of the National Women’s History Museum, to discuss the museum’s mission to tell the stories of women who transformed our nation.

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Holly has extensive experience creating new and interesting experiences for museum visitors and driving institutional advancement. She also led her own consulting firm working with nonprofits on strategic growth and held positions with The Princess Grace Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art.