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Elizabeth A. Leone
Vice-President & Principal
Senior Partner, Managing Partner
for Leone, Bender & Seate,
L.L.P..
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.”
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Contact:
Beth@catalystgroupinc.com |
Cheryl J. Leone
Contact:
cheryl@catalystgroupinc.com
Present:
- CEO, Catalyst Group, Inc.; Catalyst is a national professional practice development for law firms with emphasis in value management and high performance training.
- Visionary
- Advisor and member of Management Boards for three major law firms
- Speaker, Author and Writer; published
Summary of Career:
- 46 years law firm experience with 25 years in administration of law firms;
- Served as a General Manager for two major law firms
- Consultant past 15 years.
- Former Chairperson, Law Office Management Division, NCATL; Note: Developed and created concept for Academy to have a section made up of management personnel; adopted by the Academy 2001; elected Chairperson 2001, 2002
- Columnist: Soaring Eagles; Carolina Paralegal Magazine
- Columnist: Soaring Eagles; Inland County California Paralegal Association
- Columnist: For The Firm; Lawyers Weekly
- Member, Small Office Practice Section, Law Office Management, NCATL
- Member, Law Office Management, NCBA
- Member, American Bar Association; Small Office Management
- Published Marketing on a Shoe String with Law Office Administrator, a national publication 2001
- Designer and Presenter*
- Why Eagles Don’t Flock Together (Leadership in Law)
- TEAM – Together Each Achieve More (Effective Lawyer Management of Staff)
- Soaring Eagles (Self-Mastery for Paralegals)
- From Expert to Advocate; (Client Relationship Marketing for law firms)
- Lawyers are From Mars (presented both to lawyer groups and paralegal groups as well as a combination of both as a high performance training tool)*Presented 2007 at the McDonald’s Paralegal Treat in Las Vegas, NV.
- Gone For the Gold (a personal vision of the future of professionals and semi-professionals for future growth)
- What Do You Want on Your Tombstone; (creating a legacy within law firms)
- How to Manage, Master and Market Your Law Firm
- What Part of For Profit Don’t You Understand; (effective management and fiscal responsibility for law firms)
- To Trust or Not To Trust (proper handling of trust funds for law firms)
- Vision and Values (How to live an ethical life)
*These are the major presentations given by Ms. Leone. For a complete list of all high performance training seminars provided by the company please visit their website at www.catalystgroupinc.com.
Ms. Leone is known for her high energy visionary work with law firms and with its lawyers and non-lawyers. She has brought the art of best business practices to the practice of law. She believes in strong work and life ethics coupled with a positive work culture and true team interaction between lawyers and paralegals and staff. She delivers her speeches and her work with humor coupled with a common sense approach to law firms.
Mr. Favor and Ms. Leone together present many presentations with a “He Said, She Said” presentation style of theory and practice application.
Catalyst Group, Inc. donates a significant portion of its time to professional associations for lawyer and paralegals. It waives speaking fees to non-lawyer employee retreats and employee recognition events. In addition each year the corporation donates portions of each contract it held for that year to charities selected by its client and the corporate board. In 2006 Catalyst Group, Inc. donated a generous portion its net profits to various charities throughout the United States. Some of its clients generously helped match these gifts.
David W. Favor
Contact:
dave@catalystgroupinc.com
Present:
- PresidPresident, Catalyst Group, Inc.; Catalyst is a national professional practice development for law firms with emphasis in value management and high performance training.
- Director and creator of 360 Catalyst High Performance Training
- Lead Catalyst Auditor for business assessments
- National Speaker, Published Author
- Member Management Board 3 Major Law firms in Kansas and North Carolina
Background:
- IBM Corporation (1965-1996) Networking Division Management;
- QAA, Quality Auditing and Assessments Business; lead instructor for ISO-9001 seminars (1997)
- Consultant, Advance Concepts; ( ISO-9000, MDQ, Baldridge); BCBS NC, Nortel, IBM Y2K Audit (1997 to 2001)
- President, Favor Management Company (Business Development Company) 1999 to 2002
- Teacher: Central Carolina Community College; How To Start A Business (2002-2003)
- Developer” Primus Law Firm Assessment for use with law firms in assessing and implementing business plans for law firms modeled after the criteria required by the Malcolm Baldridge Award and ISO accreditation (1999)
- Co-developer Catalyst Business Assessment (copyright 2001)
- Originator The Favor Group Small Business Review; small business analysis plan
- Strategic Partner with 360 Solutions; group training and seminars for businesses
- Firm Retreats: Presenter and Designer of Firm Retreats for various law firms; i.e. Dream, Believe, Dare, Do
- Consulting COO to two major law firms
- Columnist, “He said, She Said” Fifty Plus; monthly magazine
- Presenter and Designer: 360 HPT Legal Courses for Law
- Designer: QA & Management Reports with Needles Case Management
- Designer: QA for Law Firms; Best Business Practices
- Presenter: Leadership in Law for Lawyers and Paralegals
- Presenter: From Start to Never Finished; defining life’s purpose through self-mastery
- Columnist; He Said, She Said, Fifty Plus, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Contributing writer, North Carolina & South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
- Co-Presented 2007 McDonald’s Legal Retreat for Paralegals; Lawyers are From Mars; Paralegals are From Venus
Education:
AAS degree in Computer Science, Capital Institute of Technology
IBM Management School
International Quality Standards
Mr. Favor’s extensive business experience before he co-created Catalyst Group, Inc. has brought to small and medium size law firms an expertise in strategic planning coupled with best business practices. His ability to bring the theory of leadership and self-mastery coupled with a balanced scorecard for law firm business has allowed the small and medium size law firms to be competitive in today’s market.
Mr. Favor’s current work is called Leadership in Law; a strategic plan for developing associates, partners and staff members to work best at what they do. This coupled with his strong values based self-mastery teachings brings to the Catalyst client a new dimension to working towards goals.
Mr. Favor and Ms. Leone together present many presentations with a “He Said, She Said” presentation style of theory and practice application.
Catalyst Group, Inc. donates a significant portion of its time to professional associations for lawyers and paralegals. It waives speaking fees to non-lawyer retreats and employee recognition events. In addition each year the corporation donates portions of each contract it held for that year to charities selected by its client and the corporate board. In 2006 Catalyst Group, Inc. donated a generous portion its net profits to various charities throughout the United States. Some of its clients generously helped match these gifts.
For Advance Notice of Law Firm Coach Products contact
cheryl@catalystgroupinc.com
Elizabeth A. Leone
Contact:
beth@catalystgroupinc.com
Senior Partner &
Managing Partner, Leone, Bender & Seate, L.L.P.
Supervising Partner: Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Negligence
Principal, Catalyst Group, Inc.
AV Rated
Member: Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Born Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, February 20, 1969
- Graduate, Campbell University, B. S. Cum Laude 1995
- Graduate, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, Buies Creek, N. C., J. D. 1998. Honors: National Trial Team; Book Award: Law and the Medicine
- Admitted N. C. District, Superior, N. C. Court of Appeals, Federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, Eastern District of North Carolina Federal Court
- Member, North Carolina State Bar
- Member, North Carolina Bar Association
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers: Education Chair, YLD; Vice Chair and Chair Auto Torts Section; Board of Governors of Young Lawyers Division; PAC Committee; Mock Trial Planning Committee]
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Member, Wake County Bar Association and 10th Judicial Bar Association
- Managing Partner, Hardison
& Leone, L.L.P. (1999 to 2006)
- Attended Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 2000
- Community Service: SPCA of Wake County
- Featured speaker, Half Moon Seminars: Handling Auto Accidents in North Carolina
- Featured speaker North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers:
- How to Limit the Testimony of Biomechanical Engineers
- Directed Verdicts
- How to Try a Soft Tissue Injury Case
- Trust Accounts & Ethics
- Pleading and Discovery: Meeting Requirements Without Getting Boxed In
- Using Exhibits in ADR and Mediation
- Questioning Techniques: Getting the Most Out of Your Deponent
- From Start to Never Finished: How to start your own law firm
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