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Next Week’s Forecast Calls for Rain: Last Chance To Register for RainDance!

RainDance Conference™ May 6-8, 2008 - Boston: For leaders in law firms and legal departments focused on sales, service and process improvement. View faculty, program descriptions and full schedule. Listen to interviews with select speakers. Space is limited and is selling fast – don't miss out! Click here to register online.

Questions? Email amy@legalsales.org or call 617.726.1500.

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LSSO’s Process Improvement Certification Program - White Belt - May 8, 2008 - Boston: This course is the perfect complement to your RainDance Conference experience. Attendees will learn about Six Sigma and Lean methodologies in context – a first for law firms and legal departments, where process improvement, which offers both efficiencies and competitive advantages, has begun to take root.

Please join us for this one-of-a-kind overview. LSSO Members and RainDance attendees receive 15% off registration. Click here for more information and to download registration form. Please note this is an adjunct program and requires separate registration.

Questions? Email amy@legalsales.org or call 617.726.1500.

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Get 25% off the Book and Trainer’s Manual: The Law Firm Associate’s Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills by LSSO Co-Founders, Catherine Alman MacDonagh and Beth Marie Cuzzone

In The Law Firm Associate’s Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills and companion Trainer’s Manual, you’ll help lawyers unravel the mystery with straightforward advice from the real-world. The main volume is even accompanied by a CD-ROM featuring totally customizable checklists, worksheets, and forms in Word. An accompanying Trainer’s Manual is a fundamental resource for everyone who will use the book as an educational, training, professional development, recruiting or retention tool. It is full of exercises to help you practice concepts from the book. By providing real-world examples to draw from, you’ll learn how to develop relationships, network effectively and pitch your services the right way. Offering “turnkey solutions” to help lead and launch these initiatives, the trainer’s handbook will help lead discussions and conduct exercises and workshops for groups of lawyers, managing partners, and in-house marketing professionals and professional development administrators. It will quickly become a must-have resource in your library.

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Offer expires May 31, 2008. Bulk discounts available.

Book and CD-ROM: Regular Price: $49.95, Product Code: 5110582
Trainer’s Manual: Regular Price: $59.95, Product Code: 5110581

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HELP LSSO STAY CONNECTED! Have you recently moved? Do you hold a new position? Please send us your new contact information so we can update our records. Contact Amy DiLisio at amy@legalsales.org or 617 726 1500.

As always, we welcome your comments and questions. Do you have an idea or article? Are you, your firm or law department doing something innovative? Want us to focus on a particular issue? How are we doing? We want to hear from you! Please contact Amy DiLisio at amy@legalsales.org or 617 726 1500.

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