Nancy Roberts Linder

Nancy Roberts Linder has a marketing consulting practice for professional service entities, primarily law firms.  In addition to her consulting work, Nancy has developed a curriculum to teach marketing skills to law students.  The program has been taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 1998 and Valparaiso University School of Law in 1998, 1999 and 2002.  Both schools were the first in their respective states to present this type of issue-specific programming for their students.  In 2003, Chicago-Kent College of Law bestowed Nancy with a Professional Achievement Award for this innovative program she developed. 

Prior to starting her consulting practice in January 1993, Nancy was the first marketing professional hired by Hinshaw & Culbertson in Chicago where she was responsible for creating and implementing the law firm's marketing department and programs for four years.  Nancy has worked with professional service entities, primarily law firms, for the past 20 years and has also held marketing management positions for environmental and engineering consulting firms.

Nancy has been an active member of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA), has published more than 100 articles, and speaks on a variety of lawyer marketing topics.  She writes a monthly column on client development issues for Intellectual Property Today  (www.iptoday.com) which is read by patent and intellectual property lawyers nationwide, and has written articles for the Chicago Lawyer, ABA Young Lawyer  and ALA Advantage on law marketing topics.