Mark Usellis.

For more than 20 years, Mark Usellis has helped law firms, lawyers and staff leaders succeed.  As a Director of Business Development, CMO, Chief Strategy Officer, and consultant, he has worked both at the rock face and at the right hand of Managing Partners and other firm leaders.  And he has brought to his law firm work the experience, perspective and judgment earned in a previous career in national politics and public affairs.

Mark’s approach is centered around helping others achieve sustainable success, which is comprehensive, balanced and lasts for the long-term.  He helps:

• Rising lawyers become successful partners.
• Partners build their practices and establish significant relationships that help their clients and colleagues succeed.
• High-potential lawyers prepare for future leadership roles, in which they will create opportunities for others and help effect change to strengthen the firm.
• Practice group chairs lead their groups effectively and efficiently so they can maintain their busy practices (and their sanity).
• Managing partners and other firm leaders strengthen their firms’ market position and become a compelling choice for the clients and lawyers they want.
• CMOs/CBDOs and their departments be highly functioning strategic assets for the firm.

Mark also believes a good advisor is not just “right,” but also “effective.”  Getting things done in a law firm is hard, for all the reasons anyone who has worked in a law firm knows.  Mark doesn’t traffic in theoretical ideals; he helps those he works with shape their strategies and tactics to the real-life operating conditions in which they work.

Long-term, sustainable success depends on the work being fulfilling, and as Mark helps firms, lawyers and staff leaders progress, he helps them to find the work, clients, colleagues, and culture that make the sacrifices needed for success worthwhile.