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In this Women Who Wow profile, get to know Alexis Robertson, the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Foley & Lardner LLP.

A former lawyer and legal recruiter, Alexis became a D&I professional after realizing that practicing law and serving as a legal recruiter wasn’t her true passion. She was able to take valuable skills from those positions and pivot to a diversity and inclusion career first at Baker & McKenzie and now at Foley & Lardner.

As Alexis noted in one of her terrific LinkedIn posts (you should follow her on LinkedIn!), if not for the pandemic, she would not have launched what she often refers to as her “pandemic podcast.” She says it was the need to introduce herself and check-in on attorneys that led to her personally calling 100 attorneys within her first few months at Foley.

She says that need created the space for the most amazing one-on-one conversations, which inspired a podcast unique to Big Law focused on showcasing human stories, highlighting the unique professional paths of Foley attorneys. The podcast is called The Path and the Practice and you should check it out.

Learn more about Alexis and her career path in this Women Who Wow profile.

Molly Pease is the Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer at Curiam Capital LLC where she leads the day-to-day operations of this private investment firm that provides financing for high-value commercial litigation.

Molly is responsible for sourcing, underwriting and monitoring the firm’s single-case and portfolio litigation funding investments and oversees Curiam’s compliance program.

Molly started her career as a litigator with a focus on large-scale reinsurance, insurance, antitrust and securities disputes on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. Molly later worked as Executive Director and General Counsel at two boutique litigation firms, where she developed and implemented long-term business strategies in all aspects of firm management, including financial analysis and reporting, business development and marketing, human resource recruitment and management, legal project management, information technology systems, and office operations.

Molly received her law degree from New York University School of Law and her undergraduate degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is a member of the faculty of the High Performance Counsel #thinktank sessions, is on Law360’s Legal Industry Editorial Advisory Board, and has been named one of Lawdragon’s Global Leaders in Legal Finance. Molly has also spoken and written extensively about legal finance.

Learn more about Molly in this Women Who Wow profile. (Note, I even used the Oxford comma for her!)

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Allison Nussbaum is the Vice President of Client Value at Pitchly where she builds teams focused on helping clients extract immediate and ongoing value from their investment the Pitchly tool. She has held a number of sales roles and also was an in-house legal marketer. Learn more about Allison.

Joanne Thorud is the Marketing & Business Development Director at Davis Malm in Boston. She is responsible for the strategic marketing and business development efforts of the firm and its attorneys.

Jo has worked in the legal industry for over 30 years. One of her favorite things to do – in and out of work – is introduce people who would benefit from knowing each other. She is an active member of the Legal Marketing Association Northeast Region. Jo currently co-chairs the Boston Small Firm/Solo Marketer SIG and is a past chair of the Boston Local Steering Committee.

Jo is a woman who wows for so many reasons – we met through our work in the Legal Marketing Association several years ago and have kept in touch through social media (love the power of social media to build and nurture relationships!) and she is just an all-around great person. I love her profile because who she is really comes through – especially the love she has for her mom – and the great advice she has for women of all ages.