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About Suzanne Donnels

Highly qualified global marketing and communications strategist, business developer, and technologist offering 30+ years of legal marketing experience. Leader of large global teams worked collaboratively with top-firm leadership and aligned business development and marketing efforts with the firm’s strategic vision. A student of innovation, creator of productivity improvement systems, and designer of metrics and dashboards that measure ROI and assist in reaching the firm’s marketing and business development goals.

Experience

2012-2020

Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL

Chief Marketing Officer

2006-2012

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, San Francisco, CA

Director of Global Marketing

2004-2006

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, San Francisco, CA

Chief Marketing Officer

2002-2004

Suzanne Donnels Consulting, San Francisco, CA

Principal

2000-2002

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, San Francisco

Director of Marketing Technology and Strategy

1995-2000

Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA

Client Services Director 1996-2000

Client Services Manager 1995-1996

1992-1995

Rosenblum, Parish & Isaacs, San Francisco, CA

Marketing Manager

1989-1992

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco

Marketing Analyst

Education

2009

O'Melveny Leadership Institute

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

1987

B.A. Political Science

University of Nevada, Reno

Memberships

• Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management (inducted in 2012) 
• Active member of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA, previously NALFMA) since 1990
   • Co-Chair of the CMO Special Interest Group (SIG) from 2019-2020
   • Treasurer and Treasurer-Elect of the Midwest Chapter from 2014-2016
   • Member-at-Large on the National Board of Directors from 2003-2005
   • Chair of the Revenue Generation Task Force from 2003-2005
   • Conference Co-Chair of the 1998 LMA conference in Los Angeles
   • Active member of the Board of the local Bay Area Chapter from 1990-1996:
       • President in 1995, Treasurer in 1993, Chair of the Membership Committee in 1992
       • Member of the Program Committee in 1992, 1993, and 1999
• Worked closely with members of the Los Angeles Chapter to re-establish the chapter, which had dissolved one year earlier;
      • Member of the Los Angeles Board from 1995 to 1996