2016 LMA Minnesota Your Honor Awards
The LMA Minnesota (LMA-MN) Your Honor Awards acknowledges creativity, execution, achievement and overall excellence in legal marketing, business development and communications. The LMA-MN Your Honor Awards recognizes local law firms, law-related organizations and service providers who have set new standards for innovation in finding, developing and retaining profitable business. This is your opportunity to have your hard work recognized by your Minnesota Chapter colleagues!
questions?
Please contact 2016 LMA-MN Your Honor Awards Chair
Tim Samuelson at 952.564.6380.
About the 2016 LMA-MN Your Honor Awards
Timing and Registration
The LMA-MN Your Honor Awards will be held in conjunction with the LMA Midwest Conference on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at the Minneapolis Events Center. Registration for the LMA Midwest Your Honor Awards ceremony is included with the LMA Midwest Conference registration.
Eligible Work and entry requirements
All entries for LMA-MN Your Honor Awards must have been produced for use by a Minnesota law firm or a LMA-MN member between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016.
Entrants may be either members or non-members of the Legal Marketing Association – Minnesota Chapter. Consultants, designers or other service providers submitting an entry on behalf of a client must include a letter of permission from the firm on the firm’s letterhead with the submission.
submission categories
- Collateral Materials: Brochures (firm wide, practice group), annual reports, announcements, newsletters, holiday cards, etc. Materials may be print or electronic.
- Events: Seminars, webinars, conferences, open houses, networking events, etc.
- budget less than $1,000 (hard costs – does not include internal time)
- budget between $1,000 and $5,000 (hard costs – does not include internal time)
- budget between $5,000 and $15,000 (hard costs – does not include internal time)
- budget over $15,000 (hard costs – does not include internal time)
- Media Relations: Campaigns, press conferences, and other unpaid media coverage
- Websites: This includes entire websites, specific portions of a firm site, or microsite.
- Blogs
- Social Media
- Videos
- Email Marketing
- Advertising: Campaign or single ad
- budget under $5,000 (creative costs only – does not include ad buy)
- budget over $5,000 (creative costs only – does not include ad buy)
Practice Development and Client-Based Programs: Attorney coaching, business development programs and plans, cross-selling initiatives, market research analysis and studies, competitive intelligence projects, knowledge management tools/projects, client service programs, pricing tools and projects, project management programs and practice innovation initiatives
Gimme: Best giveaway or promo item. You may submit an entry in this category for free with another paid entry!
Business Development and Strategic Initiatives: Anything genius marketing minds can think of that doesn’t fit into another category.
judging and judging criteria
All entries are judged by a panel of at least three people. Judges evaluate and score each entry in the four categories below on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest). A total score for the four categories provide the overall score for each submission.
Strategic Objective: The degree to which the submission met or exceeded the entrant’s stated strategic objective.
Creativity: Amount of creativity and originality demonstrated.
Execution: Quality of execution, overall impression of the end product.
Results/Outcome: Anecdotal feedback and/or quantifiable results, such as recognition and praise received from firm leadership, clients or potential clients, new matter(s) opened as a result, etc.
For those submission categories with multiple subcategories (i.e., Events and Advertising), winners will be selected for each subcategory.
A Best of Show award is given if and/or when one entry stands out over all others and is deemed by the judges to be deserving of special recognition.
While judges make every attempt to select award recipients for each category, awards may not be given in categories where the judges deem that the quality and/or quantity of entries does not warrant a winner. Judges reserve the right to change a submitted entry from one category to another. Judges may elect to award Honorable Mention Awards, beyond first through third place awards, at their discretion. Judges’ decisions are final.
Each entry will consist of:
- Three copies of the completed entry form specifying the single category in which it is being entered. NOTE: If you are submitting under Events or Advertising, please make note of what subcategory you’re submitting under.
- Three copies of the finished “product,” which may include printed materials, CDs, workbooks, photographs, published materials, etc. Entrants are welcome to submit the “before” products to show progress or improvement, but it is not necessary. Entries will not be returned.
- Three copies of a narrative of no more than one page describing, in detail:
- Opportunity or Challenge
- Strategic Objective
- Implementation
- Results/Outcomes
- Costs - Entry fee is $50 per submission for LMA-MN members; $75 for non-members.
submissions
All entries must be received by 5:00 P.M. on Friday, September 16, 2016. Please send completed submissions to:
Tim Samuelson
LMA MN Immediate Past President
Promotions Select
6010 Blue Circle Drive
Minnetoka, MN 55343
tim@promotionselect.com
952.564.6380
Please mark outside of package: 2016 LMA-MN Your Honor Awards Submission
RECOGNITION OF AWARD WINNERS
Your Honor Awards winners will be recognized as such:
- All entries will be displayed at the Your Honor Awards ceremony and reception following the LMA Midwest Conference on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.
- Award winners will be announced at the Your Honor Awards ceremony and reception following the LMA Midwest Conference on Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Please direct any questions to your 2016 Your Honor Awards Chair,
Tim Samuelson at tim@promotionselect.com or 952.564.6380.
Thank you to our exclusive Your Honor Awards Sponsor!
Dates to Note
Your Honor Awards & Reception
(Part of the LMA Midwest Conference)
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
4:00 - 5:15 P.M.
Minneapolis Events Center
212 2nd Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Timeline for Submissions & Judging
Call for Entries Now Open!
Deadline for Entries is Friday, September 16, 2016 at 5:00 P.M.
