Bilzin Sumberg Wins Legal Marketing Association Awards

MIAMI, FL – Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP is pleased to announce that the firm's New Miami initiative won first place in the Legal Marketing Association's 2013 Your Honor Awards in the Social/Interactive Media category. The firm also placed second in the Total Website Refresh/Overhaul/Rebrand category.

As the longest-running annual national award program in the legal marketing industry, the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Your Honor Awards recognize creativity, execution, achievement and overall excellence in legal marketing, business development and communications. The 2013 winners were selected from more than 200 entries in 19 categories.

Judges described the Bilzin Sumberg New Miami initiative as a "very focused and tailored effort" that "produced results." The initiative includes the firm's New Miami blog, www.newmiamiblog.com, featuring Bilzin Sumberg attorneys and guest commentators from Miami's business community who provide insights and commentary on the gateway city's expanding global significance. The New Miami initiative also includes an ongoing conversation about Miami's emergence as an international center of commerce on LinkedIn and Twitter using the hashtag #NewMiami.

Bilzin Sumberg's redeveloped website, www.bilzin.com, is a sleek and user-friendly re-design that focuses on the firm's experience, highlighting past representations and relationships with long-standing clients.

The awards were presented to Bilzin Sumberg Director of Marketing, Laura G. Murray, and Director of Library and Knowledge Management, Paul D. VanderMeer, at the LMA Annual Conference in Las Vegas.

Bilzin Sumberg's New Miami initiative and its redeveloped website previously placed first in the LMA Southeastern Chapter's 2012 Your Honor Awards in the Social Media Initiative and Interactive/Electronic Media categories.

About Bilzin Sumberg

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP is a commercial law firm with extensive experience in the areas of Real Estate, Government Relations & Land Development, Corporate & Tax, International, Litigation and Restructuring & Bankruptcy. For more information, please visit www.bilzin.com.

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