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Business Development Testimonials
"I just read the article that the ABA Journal published on you in the June 2007 edition, and I recognized many of the techniques and strategies, as I have experienced good success with many of these since our sessions. Bottom line, I credit my experience with you with a resulting boost to my client relations and development habits and practice that has yielded good results for me and the firm in the past couple years."
Charles Boettcher, Partner, Thompson & Knight LLP
"I've had the pleasure of working with David over the past 2 years as he has provided training to our partners and counsel. There are several things that differentiates David from other business development trainers and coaches - mainly his focus on practical application and follow up. Too often a trainer will come in, present a session and disappear leaving the attorneys to quickly revert to business as usual. David's emphasis on continued coaching results in the attorneys applying their new found skills and actually developing business. David has been uniformly well received and respected throughout the firm and has forged a solid working relationship with the Marketing and Business Development staff that allows us to customize training sessions for various audiences. Bringing in David to augment the services our department provides has proved to not only be efficient, but has added to our standing within the firm."
Roberta Montafia former, Chief Marketing Officer, Day, Berry & Howard
"David Freeman approaches business development training from a high-level, strategic perspective, but delivers a program that is both actionable and results focused. We provided him with a different type of training challenge (how to help turn marketing staff professionals into effective internal business development sales coaches) and he delivered exactly the type of program we needed to make our Marketing team more successful with our attorneys and groups."
Blain Banick - Chief Marketing Officer, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
"I just completed my last business development coaching session with David Freeman and wanted to let you know that I found him to be extremely useful in helping me to set up a system for maximizing my contacts with potential sources of business and refining my personal business plan. I highly recommend that we continue to use David where appropriate for training and coaching in the area of business development, and perhaps in other areas such as client service and leadership."
Randy Crispen, Partner, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, San Diego
"David's presentations are phenomenal! His experience in the legal arena and expertise in leadership and business development give him the ability to do what few presenters do well: present strategic guidance and practical "to-do's." Attendees leave with a greater understanding of how they can make an impact in their firms."
Adam Severson, Director of Sales, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
"We have enjoyed using David Freeman to train and coach some of our attorneys. We had several attorneys who needed to take the next step and David was a catalyst for that and more. He has a strong, yet appealing way of getting any personality attorney thinking about (and acting on) business development and I would highly recommend him."
Presh Killebrew, Marketing Director, Miller & Martin PLLC
I highly recommend David Freeman. My former firm used him for several years to train associates, partners, and new laterals. He is an attorney himself and can walk in their shoes. His process and techniques are meaningful and memorable. In fact, many of the attorneys have, over the years, requested refresher courses, and only from him. David's business development skills netted new and increased business for them and gave them the courage and tools to go after it in a way that fit with their individual skills and personalities.
Barbara Kaplan, Marketing and Client Development Consultant; Former Director of Marketing, Saul Ewing LLP
After working with David I have recommended him enthusiastically to others in my firm. His prior experience as a lawyer is evident in his flexible attitude, and creative (but realistic) brainstorming approach. He'll look at a situation from many angles until one fits my specific style and goals. Each conversation I have with David provides me with new approaches and insights into creating opportunities I had right in front of me.
Marc Cooperman, former Managing Partner, Banner & Witcoff, Chicago
"David has been extremely helpful as my marketing strategist and coach. My goal was to increase my exposure and visibility with respect to potential referral sources in my industry to facilitate business development. With David's help, I have succeeded beyond my expectations! David provided a springboard for me to create a women's networking group that enables me to interact with my target network on both local and national levels. The contacts have snowballed and I am building excellent relationships with key individuals."
"I couldn't have found a more successful way to rapidly gain visibility and credibility, and the best part is that David helped me to identify an opportunity that I am passionate about pursuing. What I thought would take years to develop is occurring much more rapidly and the group that I have developed has opened doors and given me access beyond what I ever thought possible."
Robyn Forman Pollack, Esquire, senior associate, Saul Ewing, LLP Philadelphia
"David Freeman has been a tremendous help to me in creating the right coaching strategy for my attorneys. A few of our practice teams have recently gone through a restructuring and lateral recruiting phase, and David has been able to help with new ideas on how to market both the 'practice' and the 'attorney'.
I've also had the good fortune to work with David twice at law firm marketing seminars. On both occasions, I found David's workshop topics and approach to be extremely relevant to the needs of my attorneys and my firm - and the dynamics he brought to the table was amazing. I highly recommend him for individual, group, attorney or business development staff coaching."
Tia Atchison, Marketing Director, Ulmer & Berne LLP, Cleveland, OH
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