A great time was had last night with the stalwarts from the Legal Marketing Association’s South Florida CityGroup at Soyka. Thank you all for your friendship and support, and thank you to our co-chairs Jennifer Clarin and Nicole Berman for their preparation and planning to ensure 2011 is another great year for legal marketing professionals in the greater Ft. Lauderdale–Miami–Palm Beach County area.MIA LOGO ARTWORK

For the past several years, Boardroom Communications has been involved with Legal Aid by participating on its Executive Council, NEXT and providing PR support. We really respect the great work they do for the greater Ft. Lauderdale and Naples communities.This year Legal Aid has helped more than 150 local not-for-profits, social services agencies and 10,000 low income citizens in obtaining legal representation in matters such as domestic abuse, foreclosure, children’s issues, guardianship, environmental contamination, and much more….  They do a fabulous job!

Currently, they are in the process of recruiting for the following high-level position, which is detailed below. If you have any interest, please contact Kathy Thomsen at kthomsen@bellsouth.net.

LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY
PRO BONO COORDINATOR/DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

Legal Aid Service of Broward County (LAS), a not for profit law firm, is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as the Pro Bono Coordinator/Development Officer. This position will manage Broward Lawyers Care (BLC), LAS’s pro bono program. The person will also be a member of the development department reporting to the Regional Director of Development. Services will also be provided to LAS’s sister agency, Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida (CCLA).
Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Build, sustain and expand relationships with law firms, corporation, law schools and bar associations.
2. Recruit, train and supervise Broward Lawyers Care’s pro bono staff and volunteer clerical help.
3. Build a relationship between BLC and program substantive units within the agencies by attending monthly unit meetings.
4. Supervise the screening and placement of cases.
5. Develop quality control/evaluation tools for the project.
6. Conduct presentations on pro bono opportunities.
7. Coordinate pro bono recruitment.
8. Develop CLE trainings for attorneys.
9. Meet regularly with pro bono liaisons and allies.
10. Oversee the design, implementation and evaluation of client service delivery models, including pro bono and pro se assistance projects.
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Boardroom Communications is pleased to announce a new client – Sky Limo, a full service aviation company that provides air charter, aircraft management, aircraft maintenance, whole and fractional aircraft sales.

Boardroom has been busy ramping up the public relations for Sky Limo, as they will be the first aircraft ever to participate in the Winterfest Boat Parade on Saturday, December 11^th. A 48-foot long, eight-passenger, twin-engine Sabre 60 jet aircraft, with a 44-foot wingspan was transported through the streets of Fort Lauderdale, lifted by crane and placed onto a barge where it will be dropped into the Intracoastal for Saturday’s festivities.

The unorthodox float idea – coupled with the lifting of the jet via crane onto the barge – drew plenty of South Florida media coverage: reporters from the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, WFOR CBS 4, WPLG Local 10, WTVJ NBC 6 and WSVN 7News have been closely watching the events leading up to the parade’s 6:30 p.m. Saturday kickoff, dubbed “the greatest show on H2O.”

The jet will be themed “Fly Me to the Moon” and will also serve as a collection site for the United States Marine Corps “Toys for Tots” campaign.

Our client and friend, David Roda CEO of Roda Asset Management,  shares his expertise and comments regarding the Fed’s QE2 plan in his article featured in the Miami Herald. David writes…

David Roda

“The financial markets have rallied on the Federal Reserve’s plan to help jump-start the foundering economy through the purchase of more than $850 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds over the next eight months.

Make no mistake, this strategy of quantitative easing, dubbed “QE2,’’ is a highly unorthodox and controversial initiative that is fraught with risks and potentially harmful side effects.

In order for QE2 to succeed, much of the new money needs to find its way into such job-creating investments as new production facilities and equipment, construction projects and new home loans. However, there are certain overwhelming structural imbalances in our economy that will block much of this new money from being channeled to its targeted uses.

I share the Fed’s fear that the economy is at risk of falling back into recession. Vital statistics such as the unemployment rate, housing prices, mortgage default rates, and business investment remain at critical levels.

By buying Treasuries and pumping money into the economy, the Fed hopes to push interest rates down, stimulate lending and investment, and modestly increase inflation.

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Our client and friend Alligator Ron Bergeron is one of four people nominated for Budweiser’s 2011 Conservationist of the Year.  We need your vote! Click on www.alligatorronbergeron.com to vote. And to see why he deserves this honor, watch this amazing video! Thank you for your support.