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Erin Marie Meyer is the Pro Bono Counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP, where she manages the firm’s global pro bono practice. Prior to that, Erin was a senior litigation associate at Hogan Lovells US LLP. I met Erin when we both worked at Proskauer, and I admire her for being a champion of diversity and inclusion, social justice and public service in Big Law.

Erin writes about a variety of pro bono legal issues for Proskauer’s blog, Proskauer For Good. Learn more about Erin in this Women Who Wow profile.

I’m so excited for the next Women Who Wow webinar on 6/17 because I get to share the virtual stage with Helen Burness and Katie Lipp to talk about how…

The next Woman Who Wows is Jennifer Gillman, the President of Gillman Strategic Group, a legal recruiting company focused solely on law firm partner placement.

Her goal is to help dissatisfied law firm partners and solo practitioners find the perfect fit at another firm, which can make a dramatic difference in their career and personal satisfaction.

After practicing law for 12 years, she realized that legal recruiting combined her two passions of law and matchmaking. She worked with a full-service New Jersey legal recruiting firm for 10 years, before following her dream and launching Gillman Strategic Group in 2018.

Get to know more about Jennifer in this profile.

For over 20 years, Edie Reinhardt has worked with professional service firms to increase their name recognition, position themselves as industry experts and stand out from the competition. In particular, she specializes in helping law and accounting firms market and grow their business.

Prior to starting her business, she practiced law at a mid-sized law firm and worked in editorial, marketing and business development roles within professional media companies. Learn more about her in this Women Who Wow profile.

Get to know Elena Cutri, the Director of Education Services at Lexis Nexis in this Women Who Wow profile.

Elena is a lifelong learner at heart and an educator by trade who partners with clients around the world to guide their software adoption strategy. She leads a team of professional trainers who create effective and engaging learning for today’s Modern Learner.

Elena is an adjunct professor at a Chicago college where she teaches public speaking and group communication skills. She volunteers as chair of a 3,000-parent network for a Special Education Resource Group in her community and leads a Girl Scout troop and teaches work-readiness classes for adults with special needs. She learns the most though from her husband and three children. Elena holds her MA in Corporate Communications from Northern Illinois University and a MBA in Marketing Management from Loyola University.

Karie Trujillo is the Marketing and Business Development Director of Markowitz Herbold PC, a boutique litigation firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As a solo marketer, she manages all marketing and business development activities including lead generation, website, advertising, public relations, community involvement, client satisfaction, content development and attorney coaching. Karie has been in professional services marketing for nearly 30 years.

She is a former Northwest Chapter Legal Marketing Association Board Member and currently serves on the board of Farmers Market Fund, an organization that provides matching incentives to SNAP shoppers at farmers markets throughout Oregon. Karie is also a volunteer for the Portland Business Alliance and a member of Ninety-Nine Girlfriends, a collective giving organization.

Learn more about her in this Women Who Wow profile.

Helen Burness is truly a woman who wows, and I am so excited to feature her in this series. I met her – where else? – on LinkedIn! I am such a fan of her posts on every social media channel and so thankful that social brought us together from across the pond.

After many years at the forefront of change in legal, she set Saltmarsh Marketing to champion innovative founders and businesses in legal to give them a powerfully recognisable voice. Her work involves crafting strategies and plans, developing distinctive brands, creating memorable campaigns, building stand-out websites and harnessing the power of social media on the company, the founder and team level.

Helen is also CMO of She Breaks the Law, a global community of women change makers who are passionate about the power of innovation and collaboration.

You can follow Helen on social media on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok (Helenloves80s).

Learn more about Helen.