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I provide support to law firm partners who are committed to growing their practices. I work with rainmakers going to the next level, new partners, lateral partners, and non-equity partners and counsel who aspire to be equity partners. I help law firms retain their most valued talent and integrate new talent.

I bring decades of experience as a coach to hundreds of partners in firms throughout the US.

My work supporting other lawyers on business development started in 1980 when I became a partner at Alschuler, Grossman & Pines, a leading Los Angeles litigation boutique. To avoid the existential threat of the firm’s depending on the firm’s one major rainmaker, I coached any lawyer in the firm who was interested. I was also a rainmaker in my own right, a leader in the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the ABA TIPS Section Employer-Employee Relations Committee and recognized in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.

In 1997, I founded The New Ellis Group, a consulting firm to provide similar support to law firm partners around the country. Since 1997, I have supported hundreds of law firm partners, hired either by their law firms or by themselves individually. I often work with lawyers at critical junctures: when they become partners, when they make a lateral move, and when they face pressure to retire. When firms invest in sponsorship and mentoring programs to retain their best talent, I provide individual coaching support to lawyers in these programs, sponsors and proteges, to insure the programs’ success.

Since 2007, I have published a biweekly newsletter on business development strategy, Monday Monday, which is full of ideas with illustrative examples to help lawyers apply business development strategies to their own circumstances. You can access the newsletter archive at The New Ellis Group website.

If I can help your firm retain the best talent or help you build your practice, please reach out to me.

Katie Oertli Mooney is a Managing Director at Seramount. She is an accomplished DEI leader and thought partner with expertise in driving strategy and growth of diversity and inclusion change management, planning and programs. Prior to joining Seramount, she was responsible for overseeing the client delivery, staffing, operations and growth as Vice President of Jennifer Brown Consulting. She was accountable for the firm’s successful consulting project delivery to clients from the Fortune 1000, government agencies, startups, to nonprofits.

Prior to that, she managed the DEI enterprise learning and development strategy at Capital One specializing in differential investment programming to support historically underrepresented talent and communities of color. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the GSBA; the largest LGBTQ and allied chamber of commerce in North America and is supporting the organization in 2020, by advancing diversity, equity and inclusion for the Board of Directors, for the benefit of GSBA staff, members, partners and the LGBTQ+ and allied community of Washington State. Katie has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management with a concentration on Diversity and Inclusion Management from Georgetown University. She is based in Seattle, WA.