Amelia “Mel” Rea Maguire has joined Steel Hector & Davis LLP, a Miami-based international law firm with offices in Florida, Latin America and London, as a partner. Mel is a leading marketer and she comes to Steel Hector & Davis from Holland & Knight, where she headed the firm’s National Client Development and Partnering Program and founded the firm’s Women’s Initiative.
“Steel Hector & Davis has an outstanding group of women lawyers, whom I am honored to join, and it has, for three years in a row, been named the most diverse law firm in the nation by the Minority Law Journal. Diversity is a key component for working with national companies,” Mel said.
Maguire has worked extensively with Fortune 500 in-house counsel through client work and thorough her relationships with the American Corporate Counsel Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association.
“Mel Maguire travels in the league of players who know the halls of corporate America like the back of their hand. Her expertise is in demand from coast to coast,” said Joseph P. Klock Jr., chairman and managing partner of Steel Hector & Davis.
Many of us know Mel from her talks at the NorthStar conference last summer in Chicago where she spoke on law firm sales, from the Association of Corporate Counsel meetings where she has worked the firm's exhibit booth, and from her panel discussions on marketing at the Florida Managing Partner Forum, organzied by The Remsen Group in Ft. Lauderdale.
Maguire has served on numerous national, state and local business and professional boards including: Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board; as Trustee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; the International Trade and Economic Development Board of Enterprise Florida, Inc.; Florida State University Foundation Board and College of Law Board of Visitors. Maguire recently completed her term on the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, but will continue to serve the on client development issues for the Commission’s Women in Law Leadership Academy.
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