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GenXpertise®: Career & Leadership for GenXers

GenXpertise®: Career & Leadership for GenXers

 The enormous number of federal layoffs and other uncertainty in the legal system is driving a record of numbers of lawyers into new positions and life changes.  Lawyer BFF is dedicated to our brother and sisters in law.  

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GenXpertise®: Career & Leadership for GenXers

GenXpertise®: Career & Leadership for GenXers

GenXpertise®: Career & Leadership for GenXers

 Aging is a fact of life - and so is ageism. As proud GenXers, we're building programs and a platform to support GenXers in the next stages of our lives and careers. Our first course launches in Summer 2025. 😎

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Hi, I'm Marianne. Thanks for visiting.

I'm a lawyer, entrepreneur, marketing expert, executive coach, and the Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer of the national law firm Bailey & Glasser, LLP.  I'm also the creator of Lawyer BFF, a video-on-demand platform for lawyers launching in Summer 2024. 


My background includes:

  • Lawyer (30+ years)
  • Executive, career, and life coach (20+ years)
  • Entrepreneur (16+ years)
  • Business & marketing expert (16+ years)
  • Mom (12+ years)
  • Author & speaker (including the book Balance by Design: A Career Guide & Planner for Women Lawyers with a Life)
  • Former law school professor
  • Career transition and reinvention expert


I've written and spoken widely on many subjects and have trained thousands of professionals in the areas of personal and professional development, law, and more.

“Marianne is a brilliant coach, an incredible presenter, and an irrepressible advocate . . . . If you're looking to further your life and career, she is the stick of dynamite you want in your back pocket to blast your way through to the success you deserve.”


Regena Thomashauer, NYT Best-Selling Author & CEO

Appearances & Publications Include:

Podcast Appearances Include:


The Market Leader Podcast with David Ackert


The Passle CMO Podcast


The Tranquility du Jour Podcast with Kimberly Wilson


Good2BSocial Legal Marketing 2.0 Podcast



Other Presentations and Publications Include:


  • Legal Marketing Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference: "To Have More, Become More"


  • CMO Roundtable Retreat opening keynote


  • Adjunct Faculty, The George Washington University Law School and The American University, Washington College of Law


  • The American University Washington College of Law Alumni Webinar: "Balance by Design: How to Design a Successful Legal Career and a Happy Life" 


  • Legal Marketing Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference: "The Entrepreneurial Attorney: Developing a Marketing Mindset in Business Development Coaching" with Jim Stapleton, CMBDO of Blank Rome LLP


  • Faculty, online video-on-demand CLE course, Cognistar/Smartpros: “Easy and Elegant Business Development Basics for Lawyers: Tools, Techniques and an Overview of Attorney Advertising Ethics,” 2011 to 2016. Was available for credit in numerous jurisdictions.


  • Instructor, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Washington, D.C. : designed and delivered full-day workshop on writing skills to judges and judicial staff of the FMSHRC


  • CLE Faculty, “Animal Protection Law 101,” George Mason University Law School, Continuing Legal Education program


  • Panelist, PBS National Teleconference on the First Amendment.


  • Columnist, “The Rockstar Rainmaker,” Ms-JD.org 


  • Presenter and facilitator, employment discrimination workshops, Women’s Rights at Work Project (Citizen Action of New York). 


  • Pro bono business development and wellness workshops for many nonprofits and companies, including Women In Need, the New York Opportunity Network, Girl's Quest, and more


  • “The Lawyer’s Bookshelf,” New York Law Journal, review of “Drawing the Line: Science and the Case of Animal Rights” by Steven M. Wise  


  • Author, Chapter in “A Primer on Animal Rights,” Lantern Books


Marianne's Career Development Planner for Women Lawyers

First Of Its Kind

This is the only planner designed specifically for women lawyers and it contains tools, resources, and guidance from over 25 years of experience being a lawyer, business development expert, coach, and more.  

Resources & Toolboxes

This full-color planner contains over 200 pages of career development strategies & checklists, resources, monthly and quarterly personal & professional strategy ideas, and so much more. 

Weekly Guidance

Each week has a specifically designed image, along with two pages - a professional page and a personal page - to help you plan your week. There are specifically-design sections in each week's planner template to help guide you with personal and professional development, as well as places for you to journal your successes.  

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I loved how supportive the book is, and how encouraging the author is, since it seems she's been there with the rest of us. I can easily see how her ideas can be expanded to other professions and I hope that she does that! Very clear, matter-of-fact, and accessible. Thank you!”


Amazon Five-Star Review

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