May 22
Member Only Meetings (No Partners):
OOMS Joint meeting with the Branch office administrators
Fish& Richardson, 1425 K Street, NW, 11th Floor Rsvp to: Barbara Mannix, Director of Operations, Fish & Richardson mannix@fr.com Lunch will be provided.
Lunch will be provided.

May 29
Member Only Meetings (No Partners):
Small Firm & Technology sections
Baker & McKenzie, 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006.
Co- Sponsored with the Technology Section Mobile Device Management Our guest speaker will be Jim Turner from Hilltop Consulting. He will be doing a presentation on managing multiple devices. Please RSVP to melody.watson@gpmlaw.com by May 24th.

Spring Forum June 5 2013
Location: Mayer Brown 1999 K St NW Washington, DC 20006
Presented by: Marguerite Ham, Igniting Success
Session Title: Coaching For Today’s Leaders

11:45 –noon Registration
Noon -12:30 lunch
12:30 – 2:00 forum

Would you like to learn a powerful tool to develop others to their highest potential? Do you sometimes sense a person does not know how to get to where they really want to go? Would you like to become a more powerful coach? Would you like your staff to learn to think like a leader?

In this workshop, you will learn about the most effective business model today…coaching! Coaching is the next phase in the evolution of personal and professional development and can be used at any level and in any environment.

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good leadership: to make the most of an organizations' most valuable resource...its' people.”
Harvard Business Review

In this Interactive Workshop you will:

  • Clarify the difference between Managing, Coaching and Leading
  • Identify Deep Listening Skills
  • Discover the Power of the Pause
  • Learn the Simple Coaching Model
  • Implement the coaching skills and model through Interactive Coaching Sessions

Powerful coaching can help you and your staff, get into alignment with your organization's vision, purpose and goals. This effective tool creates accountability and increases productivity and work/career satisfaction. Everything rises and falls on leadership — coaching is a powerful skill for leaders at any level!

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Connecting for the Future
The 2013 Capital Chapter Sponsor Program Now open for registration. Click here to view the 2013 Program.

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The NEW 2012 Capital Chapter's Salary and Benefits Survey Results are now available

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This year's Survey provides data on close to 7,400 positions in law firms in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and 1,455 of those positions are Intellectual Property practice specific. This represents an increase of over 200 total positions reported over last year, and an increase of almost 400 IP positions!