INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PRIMERUS LAW FIRMS
Affinity Relationships
Primerus has developed, on behalf of our members, new Affinity Relationships with several organizations that provide high quality, competitively priced services. Primerus maintains a goal of attracting high quality Affinity Relationship partners that exact the same standards maintained within the Six Pillars. Primerus member firms are encouraged to contact our Affinity Relationship partners to learn more about their specific services.
Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA)
Avis/Budget
ClearTalent LLC
Evalueserve
Hanover Professionals
LegalPR
Med Legal Consulting Source
Midmarketplace.com
Pinnacle Equity Solutions
R&D Strategic Solutions
ROCG Americas LLC
Virtual Data Rooms
The Best Attorneys Need to Be Known
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms is pleased to announce its newest Affinity Partner, LegalPR. Primerus recommends and endorses LegalPR as its preferred provider of public relations services for its Plaintiff Consumer firms.
Legal PR focuses exclusively on providing clients with news coverage that builds reputation, prominence, and name recognition toward yielding new direct and lawyer referred cases. Casting a media spotlight on select cases, shaping the story to support the client's theory of the case, and securing ongoing opportunities for attorney clients to appear in the news as subject experts produces "earned media" - a viable client acquisition strategy and often, a strong support tool in the prosecution of specific cases.
Legal PR client firms are selected based on the quality of the practice and partners, incidence of newsworthy cases and the recognition of being in the news as a powerful business development tool.
Legal PR has developed and placed news stories with such national programs and outlets as:
- 60 Minutes
- Geraldo At Large
- CBS Evening News
- CNN
- Oprah
- Inside Edition
- The Associated Press
- The Washington Post
- The New York Times
Legal PR has coordinated local and national stories on a variety of legal cases including military contractor negligence, key tobacco cases and decisions, military hospital medical malpractice, military airplane accidents, trucking accidents, defective products and a civil rights-era murder. We have coordinated and conducted large-scale news conferences in numerous U.S. media markets. Legal PR provides clients with complete confidentiality in all matters. We promote our clients, not ourselves.
"In the brief time I have had the pleasure of working with Legal PR, they have been a tremendous resource to our practice. They have generated significant media coverage, both TV and print, on multiple cases. I look forward to continually working with them as we grow our practice."
Brian J. McKeen, McKeen & Associates, P.C. (Detroit, MI)
Primerus Plaintiff Consumer members will receive a significant discount off LegalPR's standard rates. LegalPR's services will be provided to Primerus Plaintiff Consumer members at a discounted rate of 25 percent. For more information about LegalPR and its services, please contact Lindsae Gogulski, Member Services Coordinator, at (800) 968-2211 or lgogulski@primerus.com
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends ClearTalent LLC as a preferred provider of human resources/talent management solutions. Primerus has negotiated a 10% discount for Primerus member firms.
About ClearTalent LLC:
Most companies spend 60% to 80% of revenue paying their people. Yet, recent studies show that the majority of employees are not fully engaged, are unclear about expectations, and may be a poor fit for their role.
ClearTalent LLC is a human resource consulting company that helps clients with “the people stuff”. Our experienced staff and integrated solutions are designed to select, engage, and develop your people—so you can grow your business. ClearTalent experts total over 180 years of experience with companies like Accenture, Pfizer, Motorola, Xerox and Boston Scientific.
Specifically, ClearTalent:
- defines roles and creates interview guides to hire better people
- measures your staff with 360 degree feedback and online performance reviews
- develops your talent with classes, coaching, and online tools
- increases team and project performance with facilitated events
Most every business in your industry has the same machines, buildings, and databases. Your advantage is your people - make sure you are getting their best.
For more information go to http://www.getcleartalent.com or call Bill Steketee at 616-915-9880
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and endorses Avis/Budget as its preferred provider of discounted car rentals. Avis Budget Group operates two of the most recognized brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget. Avis is a leading rental car supplier to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry and Budget is a leading rental car supplier to the price-conscious segments of the industry.
| Avis: Renting a car? At Avis, we'll try harder for you with the kind of personal service and attention that makes every rental quick and easy. We'll also provide innovative products to enhance your car rental experience. Plus, you'll receive valuable discounts automatically by providing your International Society of Primerus Law Firms Avis Worldwide Discount (AWD) number A606200, every time you rent. Call 1-800-331-1212 or visit https://www.avis.com/car-rental/profile/go.ac?A606200 and reserve today. |
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Malpractice Insurance
Now Available to Primerus Members
Partnering with Willis-HRH of Michigan and Hanover Professionals, Primerus is pleased to offer its members a new Lawyers Malpractice Insurance Affinity Partnership Program.
The program offers Primerus law firms special pricing advantages, starting with an upfront 12.5 percent discount off standard rates, with a group dividend plan to follow when overall premiums reach a realistic threshold.
Some coverage highlights include:
For more information or to complete an application form, please contact Russ Lindemann or Barb Zeak at (800) 472-1231.
The Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA)
The AMAA is the acknowledged leading association and credentialing body for M & A professionals. Our leadership and people have unrivaled multidisciplinary expertise in the middle market financial services industry. AM&AA members represent sellers and buyers of businesses ranging from $5 million to $150 million in transaction value.. Their services are seller representation, buyer representation, due diligence, accounting financing, business valuation, tax planning legal, strategic, advisory, and many other transaction services. Our Alliance offers members a solid platform for professional collaboration. Our professional members work to provide the entire spectrum of consulting and corporate financial advisory services to measure, build, finance, and convert business value into personal wealth.
We have not only a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing our business clients but also a personal empathy with the environment in which they work and the best way to implement change. We design and implement strategies, processes and technologies that help clients to dramatically improve enterprise value. Our independent members take great pride in our reputation for practical, hands-on delivery and project management skills combining in-depth business analysis with world-class technology and capital resources. Underpinning everything about the Alliance is a new and fundamentally different approach to delivering transformational change in the middle market financial services industry. Our Alliance is focused on a services-oriented, client centric perspective.
Click Here For The 2008 AM&AA Brochure
A letter to Primerus Members from Mike Nall, Founder of The AM&AA
Please Visit the AM&AA Website
Evalueserve: Custom Research and Analytics
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and endorses Evalueserve as its preferred provider for custom research projects. Primerus has negotiated a special member benefit for on-demand custom research projects - including service - and industry-specific credential packs, pricing, service availability, implementation & delivery, and Alliance Account support - from which you as a Primerus Member are entitled to benefit.
About Evalueserve
Evalueserve provides knowledge services to a global client base of Fortune 5000 companies, including Law Firms and Intellectual Property Firms, Investment, Commercial and Retail Banks; Insurance Companies; Private Equity Firms; Consulting and Research Firms. Evalueserve's expertise covers areas such as Intellectual Property and Legal Support Services, Data Analytics, Knowledge Technology Services, Financial and Investment Research, Business Research and Market Research. We provide access to over 25,000 experts through our Circle of Experts.
We currently have more than 2,000 professionals in our research centres in India (Delhi-Gurgaon), China (Shanghai), Chile (Santiago-Valparaiso) and Romania (Cluj-Napoca). In addition, we have 60 client engagement managers located in all major business centres and regions around the world.
Solutions for Law Firms
Evalueserve Value Proposition
Global Coverage
• Operation centres in India, China, Chile and Romania
• Multi-lingual capabilities (50+ languages)
• Local 'in-country' support 24x5 coverage
• Network of 25,000 experts globallyCustomized and Cost-Effective Solutions
• Value-for-money pricing leading to significant savings
• 100% customized solutions
• Option of implant teams in client offices
Quality and Productivity
• ISO 27001 certified offices in India and China
• Extensive research infrastructure with over 100 databases
• Productivity enhancements via Knowledge Technology and micro-process redesign
• Professional quality assurance processes
Our experienced professionals include MBAs, chemists, biotechnologists, engineers, lawyers, medical doctors, PhDs, chartered accountants and statisticians from around the globe.
Evalueserve has subscribed to selected paid databases such as Profound, Factiva, Reuters Knowledge, OneSource and Economic Intelligence Unit, to meet the high-end research needs of our clients. We also leverages free databases/data sources on the Internet.
Key Differentiators
Scale: 2,000+ professionals, 45 nationalities
Global Delivery: Operation centres in India, China, Chile and Romania
Coverage: 24x5 operations; 50+ languages
Experience: 10 years with multi-industry clients
Client Base: More than 70 Fortune 500 clients; 7 out of top 10 investment banks in the world
Cost and Productivity: Significant cost savings and productivity improvements
Evaluserve Legal Support Services
Circle of Experts Page for Primerus Members
Contact: Patrick Madden, your Evalueserve Executive Phone: 1-614-829-3580 Email: Patrick Madden
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms is one of the Founding Sponsors of Midmarketplace.com, a new research, development, and exchange center for the global private capital marketplace. It is a free business information portal sponsored by leading organizations from the industry, Primerus among them.
Midmarketplace.com believes that it will become the leading force organizing this very large niche marketplace with comprehensive web-based systems that bring together people, ideas, and capital in a whole new way. This business R&D exchange center, first announced in 2006, will be expanded in many ways in 2008. We are expanding beyond the U.S. to create an international network of self managed, independent experts. Well versed in our operational methodology, using a common set of tools, and measured by a common quality control system, Midmarketplace Alliance members are intensely focused on providing maximum value for business owners.
Please Visit the Midmarketplace.com Website
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and approves Pinnacle Equity Solutions as a preferred provider of sound Business Exit Strategies. Pinnacle Equity Solutions is a membership-based company that works with advisors who are interested in incorporating Business Exit Strategy into their practice. Primerus Members receive a discount in the price of membership!
ABOUT PINNACLE EQUITY SOLUTIONS
Pinnacle Equity Solutions provides advisors - financial planners, attorneys, estate planners, accountants, M&A professionals, etc. - with the tools they need to incorporate Business Exit Strategies Planning into their advisory practices including training classes, marketing materials, webinars, white papers, newsletters, and more.
Today, there is a lack of focus on Exit Strategies. Although this type of planning is growing in importance, it does not fit perfectly within any one of the 'traditional' advisory roles, i.e. legal, accounting, financial, insurance, etc. To fill this void, our team supports business owners and their advisors in designing and executing Exit Strategies, regardless of which discipline is initially presenting the idea. Exit Strategies planning includes a holistic and comprehensive review of the business owner's corporate, personal, and family objectives.
John Leonetti, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, was recently featured live on ABC News Now, which reaches more than 44 million viewers around the world. His interview titled "Exiting Your Business: Coming Up With The Most Profitable Strategy For Leaving" assists in further spreading the word about the importance of business owner exit planning.
You view John's interview by clicking here: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6521331.
Pinnacle Contact:
John M. Leonetti, Esq., M.S. Finance, CFP, CM&AA
Managing Director
Pinnacle Equity Solutions
Phone: 617-367-5772
Email: John Leonetti
*The Exit Strategy Training Experts*
Website: Pinnacle Equity Solutions
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends R & D Strategic Solutions to its members as the nationally recognized provider of jury research and strategic trial consulting.
At R&D Strategic Solutions, Our people are the difference. R&D consultants provide all of the services that have come to be associated with jury consulting firms: focus groups, mock trials, theme testing, venue studies, witness preparation, and jury profiling and selection. However, this is where any similarity to other firms ends. The area where a jury consultant can and should have the greatest impact—developing trial strategy—is often where most fall short. We believe our greatest value is assisting the trial team in the development of a compelling trial strategy. Naturally, we use empirical methods to assist in the process, but only our experience combined with the willingness to spend time thinking about your case results in a product that actually affects the way you approach the matter with the jury.The Experience of the R&D team is completely unmatched in the industry, with well over 100 years of consulting experience just among its five partners. Everyone at R&D has years of experience serving clients’ trial consulting needs and we are all Passionate about finding Creative and Practical solutions to the challenges you face in your case. R&D provides jury research and consulting services on virtually every type of civil litigation. In just the past few years R&D has worked on some of the largest pharmaceutical, intellectual property, personal injury, insurance, securities, and toxic tort matters in the country. R&D professionals have consulted on cases in every state in the U.S. and have also provided consulting internationally.
R&D has also established a one-of-its-kind Medical Malpractice Unit that is staffed with professionals whose sole assignment is the defense of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. The Medical Malpractice Unit is aimed at meeting the special needs of the “medical client” and this includes a special pricing program that allows clients in this important industry to access R&D’s full array of services in a price conscious way.
R&D is offering special pricing discounts to Primerus members and their clients in an effort to create meaningful, long-term consulting relationships that benefit your clients and reinforce the strong positive reputation of Primerus and its members.
Mark S. Sobus, J.D., Ph.D. is the R&D partner who will serve as the initial point of contact for Primerus members wishing to use R&D’s unique services. Mark can explain the special pricing discounts available to Primerus members and can direct your particular case to the professionals most appropriate for your case.
Mark Sobus, J.D., Ph.D.
(281) 312-5008
msobus@rd-ss.com
Website: www.rd-ss.com
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and endorses Med Legal Consulting Source as a preferred provider of medical record analysis for litigation. It is often the small details contained in the medical records that directly affect medical causation and damages. Med Legal Consulting Source will find that information, translate it into layman’s terms, and create clear, concise reports, bringing issues front and center for your use in case preparation or defense.
About MED LEGAL CONSULTING SOURCE
Med Legal Consulting Source is a national leader in expert medical record reviews. Utilizing our proprietary system of review, MCAP®, Med Legal’s legally trained teams of nurses organize the records, analyze the data, and abstract the pertinent information to create easy-to-read reports tailored to your specific needs. Med Legal’s triple-tiered review process assures high quality, reliable, and powerful reports enabling you to focus your firm’s resources more effectively.
All of Med Legal’s highly qualified Legal Nurse Consultants meet our stringent standards for both clinical and legal certification. Every nurse is thoroughly vetted and completes extensive training in our patented review process prior to becoming an active member of our team.
Website: www.medlegal-la.com
T: 213.347.0203
Email: info@medlegal-la.com
Nancy Fraser, RN CEO
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and endorses V-Rooms™ Virtual Data Rooms as its preferred provider for virtual data rooms. Primerus has negotiated a special 10% discounted pricing structure, in addition to custom branding options and technical/administrative support hotline - from which you as a Primerus Member are entitled to benefit.
About V-Rooms™:
V-Rooms™ Virtual Data Rooms, a division of Due Diligence Online, LLC is an Internet-based, on-demand hosted program designed to provide secure online document exchange and collaboration.
This program supports efforts such as Litigation, M&A, Capital Raising, Boardroom Communications and other types of legal and financial transactions which may require the creation, revision and execution of numerous agreements along with the distribution of thousands of pages of information to hundreds of participants.
Virtual Data Rooms, as opposed to paper-based systems, enable clients, experts and other team members, on a 24X7 worldwide basis, to have controlled “trackable” access to specified documents, while reducing time and expenses associated with data distribution, courier, printing and travel.
Additional Revenue Opportunity – Increase Billable Hours
An increasing trend, for attorneys and their legal staff, is for them to assume the role of virtual data room administration: organizing and uploading files, issuing usernames, tracking progress on transaction document completion, generating management reports, etc. Oftentimes, these are tasks that attorneys’ clients may not wish to perform within their respective companies, due to the highly sensitive nature of the pending transaction and the potential negative impact on employee morale. This virtual data room administration approach provides the law firms with an additional opportunity to better serve their clients.For more information on how V-Rooms™ Virtual Data Rooms may assist you, please visit www.V-Rooms.com/legal
Article – National Paralegal Reporter – September, 2006– "Working in Online Virtual Rooms"
CLICK HERE to see our article in the National Paralegal Reporter where we've discussed the importance of security and handling due diligence in Virtual Data Rooms.
“One on One” – Quick Start Sessions
Exclusively for Primerus Member Law Firms
Is there someone within your organization that needs training on how to set up and administer a Virtual Data Room? V-Rooms™ is proud to offer our “One-on-One” Quick Start Sessions. Just call Dan directly, and he will set up a 30-minute session that is guaranteed to enhance your knowledge of V-Rooms™ functionality.
Website: www.V-Rooms.com
Contact: Dan R. Bradbary, Founder and CEO
Phone: 1-800-731-6379 x 701
Direct: 1-404-558-3262
Email: Dbradbary@V-Rooms.com
The International Society of Primerus Law Firms recommends and approves ROCG Americas, LLC as a preferred provider…….
Who is ROCG?
We are an international consultancy with a proprietary method of planning for transition and preparing a business for transfer so it attracts the right buyer and realizes top market value. We assemble a team that includes existing advisors, to ensure no stone is left unturned. Our services meet both business and personal needs associated with a business transition. Finally we guide the owner and all stakeholders to the moment the last signature completes the final contract. Learn more about ROCG Principals and Consultants
What is Business Transition?
Business Transition is the process of preparing a business to be transferred to a successor. If done properly it can be a rewarding experience. Handled improperly an owner can encounter many pitfalls, regrets and financial reverses. It may become a nightmare. There are no second chances in transitioning a business. The world-wide experts at ROCG have developed a unique method to help business owners transition their businesses. The term business transition is also popularly known as business succession planning. Our method brings discipline and balance to planning. There are three steps to the process: Planning (clarifying objectives), Transition Management (Implementing the plan) and Transaction Management (selling the business).
Read more about ROCG’s Proprietary Process to Successfully Transition Your Business
ROCG Americas, LLC Contact:
Ronen Shefer, CEO |
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