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Ann Meyers Drysdale is Vice President Phoenix Suns & Mercury, a broadcaster, and a trailblazer in women’s athletics.

Born into a Family of 11 Children, Ann was a seven-sports athlete in High School, and a three-sport athlete at UCLA where she was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship and the first player in Division I history — male or female — to register a quadruple-double. Ann was a member of the first U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball team in 1976, which won a silver medal.

She is a woman who paved the way for female basketball players, being the first 1st in so many ways including the first four-time All-American women’s basketball player, the #1 draft pick in the inaugural Professional Basketball League, the only woman to have a try out in the NBA, 3x winner of Women’s Super Stars and only woman to compete in the men’s Super Stars. She has been inducted in over a dozen halls of fame and Time Magazine named her as one of the Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers of all time. She was also the first woman to announce an NBA game on network television.

As a broadcaster for over 40 years, Ann covered six Olympic Games, and worked for ESPN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and other cable networks.

In 2006, Ann received the Ronald Reagan Media Award. She was married to HOF Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale and has 3 Children with him.

In this episode…

How do you build successful teams within an organization? What does it mean to be a good teammate for the success of others?

Join us as guest host Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Ann Meyers Drysdale to discuss finding strength in the face of adversity, how to define success, and the road she paved in women’s athletics.

Marion Callahan is a multimedia reporter for The Intelligencer, Bucks County Courier Times and Burlington County Times as a multimedia journalist. She's tackled tough topics ranging from wars overseas to battles here at home, including the toll of addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs.

In this episode…

What does it mean to be a multimedia journalist? How do journalists identify the stories to report?

Join us as guest host Sarah Larson goes on record with Marion Callahan to discuss how digital media has transformed the ways news is reported and consumed.

Scott Love is the president of The Attorney Search Group. Scott is a high-stakes headhunter for international law firms recruiting and placing partner-level attorneys, groups, and facilitating law firm mergers. Scott is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, is a former naval officer, and has been in the recruiting industry since 1995. The Attorney Search Group, it is a legal recruiting firm that recruits and places partner-level attorneys with the top 100 and 200 law firms on a national basis.

In this episode…

What are the top reasons law firm partners choose to make a lateral move? What can law firms do to more successfully attract and retain laterals?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Scott Love to discuss opportunities for success in lateral recruiting and how the COVID pandemic and the economic downturn have impacted the legal recruiting market.

Judge Sandra Mazer Moss is a Distinguished Neutral at the Dispute Resolution Institute (DRI) in Philadelphia.

Judge Moss joined the DRI in 2014, after a long and distinguished career with the First Judicial District of Philadelphia Civil Trial Division. While there, Judge Moss served as trial judge, judicial team leader, and most notably was the founder and first supervising judge of the Complex Litigation Center. Fondly referred to as the CJC, Judge Moss stewarded groundbreaking litigation programs designed to swiftly and fairly resolve asbestos, lead paint, breast implants, and other mass tort cases.

Many of the protocols that she created have been adopted throughout the United States. They've also been the basis of her appointment as Chair of the State Judges Mass Tort Litigation Committee, where she served under the auspices of the Conference of Chief Justices. Judge Moss’s weighty accomplishments have been recognized by local and national organizations such as the Philadelphia Bar Association, where she received the William J. Brennan Distinguished Jurist Award. She's a graduate of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University and was given the alumni association’s inaugural Women's Champion Award. She has also been a president of their Inn of Court.

In this episode…

How can parties successfully navigate virtual arbitration and mediation?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Judge Sandra Mazer Moss to discuss best practices for virtual arbitration and mediation and lessons learned during COVID-19.

Deirdre Breakenridge, CEO of Pure Performance Communications, is the author of six books, host of the podcast Women Worldwide with nearly 2 million downloads, and a 30-year veteran in PR, marketing and branding, Deirdre has worked with senior leaders and organizations, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, JVC, Kraft, Nasdaq, NBA Events & Attractions, and the Public Relations Society of America.

She is a career-long storyteller and relationship agent, helping brands and professionals to ignite their engagement, lead the conversation and grow influences. She takes a proprietary approach to communications with her FEEL First communication model that encompasses the findings of a 52+ week research project. Her most recent book, “Answers for Modern Communicators,” was published by Routledge and named by Book Authority among the Top 100 Storytelling Books in 2019.

Dierdre teaches communications for NYU, UMASS at Amherst, Rutgers University, and Fairleigh Dickinson University in addition to many organizations with communication training programs. She also speaks internationally on the topics of PR, marketing, branding, and social media communications.

In this episode…

What does it mean to communicate effectively?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Deirdre Breakenridge to discuss what it means to really show up for conversations, how to listen better in times of passion and anger, and how to conquer fear.

Sigalle Barness is the chief operating officer (COO) of Lawline and founder of Chief Operating Mommy blog. At Lawline, she provides leadership envisioned to ensure the proper process and people are in place to effectively grow the business. It's also her job to ensure Lawline’s financial strength, stability and profitability. At Chief Operating Mommy, she shares her experiences being an executive and a parent.

In this episode…

How has the production of continuing legal education changed in light of COVID-19? What are some key traits the most successful presenters possess?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Sigalle Barness to discuss continuing legal education in a coronavirus world, the traits shared by the most successful presenters, and how her personal experience led to the launch of a blog that helps other working mothers in senior executive roles.

Lizzy McLellan is an editor for ALM, covering the business of law. She started as a reporter for The Legal Intelligencer covering the Pennsylvania legal community. Based in Philadelphia, Lizzy is now part of the business of law team in ALM's global newsroom. She also works with a team of editors that launched and continues to produce the Mid-Market Report, a weekly newsletter focused on midsize law firms.

In this episode…

What type of news do reporters want to hear about as a result of COVID-19? What type of data should law firms provide when pitching stories to the media?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Lizzy McLellan to discuss the reporting goals of the ALM global newsroom team, what data is important to crafting a compelling media pitch, and how the pandemic is impacting the coverage of legal news.

David Lat is a managing director of Lateral Link and the founding editor of Above the Law, an award-winning website about the legal profession that reaches more than one million unique visitors a month. David's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post among other publications. 

Prior to Above the Law, he launched Underneath Their Robes, a blog about federal judges. David's first book, “Supreme Ambitions,” a novel, was published in 2014. In 2019, David left full-time journalism to enter legal recruiting. Today, he works as managing director in the New York office of Lateral Link, a leading legal search firm. y

Before entering media and recruiting, David worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey, as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, and as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Today, he lives in New York City with his husband and their two-year-old son.

In this episode…

How can lawyers in transition stay engaged during a down job market? How can candidates assess cultural fit during the recruiting process?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with David Lat to discuss the importance of assessing cultural fit during the recruiting process, opportunities to stay active in the market during difficult times, and how COVID-19 has changed the legal profession.

Laura Lomax, the president of Intercultural Works LLC, is an intercultural practitioner and certified professional coach. Laura works with individuals and groups to guide the development of their cultural competency with the end goal of building high performing, inclusive organizations.

In this episode…

How can organizations become culturally agile and develop cultural competency?

Join us as guest host Sarah Larson goes on record with Laura Lomax to discuss how cultural competency can lead to high performing businesses, how leaders can embrace the idea of antibias, and how to facilitate change within your organization.

Adrian Lurssen is the co-founder and vice president of strategic development at JD Supra, an online content intelligence platform. Adrian has been helping to build JD Supra since 2007. JD Supra supports lawyers and law firms, and their thought leadership programs by distributing their content to subscribers across all industries and sectors.

Adrian has worked in new media for almost his entire professional life. He served as a senior managing editor at Yahoo!, creating and managing the company's first team of editors and writers whose work included Yahoo! News full coverage, daily and weekly pics, Ask Yahoo!, and other editorial features. In 1999, Brill’s Content media magazine placed Adrian on their top 25 influencers list, calling him “The most important person in cyberspace of whom you've never heard.”

In this episode…

What are law firms doing well from a content perspective? How does content support business development?

Join us as host Gina Rubel goes on record with Adrian Lurssen to discuss the importance of marketing law firm content and explain the do’s and don’ts, how to use data as an opportunity, and ways to improve your law firm’s content.