Jim Hassett founded LegalBizDev to help lawyers develop new business more quickly by applying best practices from other law firms and from other professions. Before he started working with lawyers, Jim had 20 years of experience as a sales trainer and consultant to companies from American Express to Zurich Financial Services. Jim has published seven books (including Legal Business Development: A Step by Step Guide and The LegalBizDev Desk ReferenceT) and more than seventy articles in publications ranging from the New York Times Magazine to Legal Management and Strategies: The Journal of Legal Marketing. He is a frequent speaker at law firms and at conferences, including recent presentations at the New York, New England, and Southeastern chapters of the Legal Marketing Association. Jim has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston University. His blog Legal Business Development was selected by TechnoLawyer as one of "the most influential legal blogs" and featured in BlawgWorld.

Tom Kane, J.D., LL.M, a former practicing attorney, is the principal of Kane Consulting, Inc. and co-founder of the LegalBizDev Network. Tom has served for more than  twenty-two years as an in-house marketer for a number of law firms and as a consultant to the legal industry. His most recent in-house position was as chief marketing officer for a 450-lawyer firm based in Philadelphia with 12 offices. Tom has been involved in all aspects of legal marketing, from training, coaching, planning, and public relations to conducting image campaigns, market research, advertising, and client feedback programs. Tom has also written and spoken on law firm marketing topics for more than two decades, and writes www.LegalMarketingBlog.com, which was included in Blawgworld's short list of the most influential legal blogs. His book Letters For Lawyers: Essential Communications for Clients, Prospects, and Others, Second Edition is published by the American Bar Association.

Fred Kinch, MBA has over 35 years of experience in senior management, strategic planning and business development.  He understands what law firm clients want and need from his years as a director, president and CEO of several consumer, manufacturing and high tech firms.  Fred has also successfully coached hundreds of sales and marketing professionals to increase efficiency and results.   He has been certified as a LegalBizDev coach, and as a Miller-Heiman instructor.   

Fred has a BS in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MS in Physics from Texas Christian University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He teaches graduate courses in marketing and management at Northeastern University, gives talks and seminars to business organizations, and is a frequent contributor to business journals and periodicals.