Three Winners of the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year awards have been selected and profiled in Originate! magazine. They offer the strongest role models to other lawyers in effective business development and marketing, and their stories show the tactics and techniques that make them successful.

It’s the season for gift giving and getting prepared for next year, but most lawyers do the same old thing…sending out holiday cards or attending more holiday parties. What else they could be doing is the subject of this month’s lead article in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. This article …

By Michael Cummings and Larry Bodine, co-founders of Apollo Business Development Webinars. To register for the web seminar “How Plaintiff Tort Lawyers Can Generate High-Value Leads,” on December 2, 2009; 12PM - 1PM Central, visit http://bit.ly/15H4WD If you are an ambitious plaintiff tort attorney, what keeps you up at night? First, you are focused on making the most of …

To Download Free White Paper: http://bit.ly/15H4WD Recently, a new form of lead generation is becoming available to law firms that combines the best of the power of TV advertising and the Google AdWords model – and eliminates the cost/risk of traditional TV advertising. More importantly, lawyers can invest in this advertising on a cost-per-lead basis …

With the economy still struggling, lawyers need to make sure that the marketing investments they make will pay off in hard results. What will give them a payback and what won’t is the subject of this month’s lead article by Steve Barrett in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. www.pbdi.org/originate

Three leading lights from the corporate community will get into detail about how alternate fees work in law practice — including Paul Lippe, Founder of Legal Onramp, Jeffrey Carr, General Counsel for FMC Technologies and Dan Currell, Managing Director, General Counsel Roundtable.    Registration information is available at http://bit.ly/17t3Iz  The trio will appear on a …

New Class on Business Development with Online Social Networking CHICAGO – Lawyers and marketers can now take a private class on how to get more clients and generate more revenue in the booming area of online social networking, taught by business development expert Larry Bodine, Esq. “This is not a class on how to dither …

The primary benefit that you can offer that clients want is predictability. Attendees of this LIVE webcast will learn how to wean themselves from the billable hour and explore blended rates, capped fees, fixed fees, retainers and success fees.

Interview conducted by Adrian Dayton, author of the “Marketing Strategy and The Law” blog at.  Based in Amherst, NY, he can be reached at 801.414.7675 and atdayton@gmail.com. Larry Bodine, Esq. of Glen Ellyn, (Chicago) IL, is a business developer with 18 years experience who helps exclusively law firms attract and keep more clients.  He conducts …

CHICAGO – Law firm marketers, partners and associates have until July 31 – only two weeks — to enter the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year Awards, sponsored by Originate!, the monthly business development newsletter, in association with Legal Sales and Services Organization (LSSO). “We want to recognize the business development accomplishments of lawyers who have …