Michelle R. Weber

Chief Operating Officer
305.350.2373
Michelle R. Weber
Chief Operating Officer
305.350.2373
  • OVERVIEW
  • INSIGHTS
  • CREDENTIALS
GET TO KNOW MICHELLE

Michelle R. Weber is a senior executive with almost 30 years' experience in law firm management and serves as Bilzin Sumberg’s Chief Operating Officer. Michelle works very closely with the Managing Partner and Executive Committee to assist in developing and implementing organizational and business goals, strategic plans, and administrative policies. Michelle directs the supervisory staff of Directors in the daily firm operations.

In her role, Michelle has focused on organizational team building; cost control management; financial analyses & forecasting; new business strategies; and efficiency and work flow procedures. Through these efforts, Michelle has improved administrative operations, reduced operating expenses, and guided practice groups to high profit margins.

Michelle's top priority at the firm is to ensure that each of the 250+ employees of Bilzin Sumberg embodies the Firm's goal of providing our clients with preeminent legal representation.

Michelle has an M.B.A. from the City University of New York, Zicklin School of Business. She is a Member of the Large Firm Caucus of the Association of Legal Administrators, and a member of the Executive Board of Directors for Florida Foster Care Review.

INSIGHTS
Speaking Engagement October 28, 2020
Michelle Weber participates in a discussion on Bold Engineering: Innovations in Law Firm Pricing Models as part of Weathering the Storm: New Directions in Law Firm Management, the 19th Annual Law Firm COO & CFO Forum hosted by The Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute.
Speaking Engagement March 27, 2020
Michelle Weber discusses her experience as a woman in a leadership position during Year Up South Florida's Women of Impact Collaborative at Miami Dade College North Campus.
Speaking Engagement August 25, 2017
Michelle R. Weber serves as a panelist discussinglaw firms' use of information technology and their duty to protect client confidential information at the ALAS Firm Administration Conference.
Speaking Engagement August 04, 2017
Michelle R. Weberserves asa panelistat the American Legal Association's Large Firm Principal Administrators Retreat discussinga case study on legal project management implementation.
Speaking Engagement October 27, 2016
Michelle R. Weber serves as a panelist discussing the new rules of collaboration related to winning and retaining legal customers at Thomson Reuters' Law Firm COO and CFO Forum.
Speaking Engagement October 24, 2013
Michelle R. Weber serves as a facilitator forThomson Reuters' Law Firm COO and CFO Forum discussion on the responsesto globalization by non-global law firms.
CREDENTIALS
  • City University of New York, M.B.A., Zicklin School of Business, 1988
    State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., 1984
  • Association of Legal Administrators

    President, 2002 - 2003
    Large Firm Caucus Education Committee Member, 2017 - present

    Florida Foster Care Review

    President, 2020
    Secretary, 2017 - 2019
    Board of Directors, 2014 - present

    LegalBizDev
    Project Management Advisory Board
    Temple Beth Am

    Vice President of Integration, 2016
    Board of Directors
    Recording Secretary 2017 - 2018
    Vice President of Membership 2018 - 2019