Danielle Diaz

Company: Update Legal
Profession: Legal Staffing, Placement & Recruiter
Power Team: Legal
Phone: 212-993-2225
Email: ddiaz@updatelegal.com
Website: updatelegal.com

Products and/or services offered:

Legal staffing- attorneys and paralegals.  Contract assignments, temp to perm and permanent placements. We specialize in eDiscovery- providing the attorneys, the space, the technology and Project Managers if needed.  We provide legal staffing of foreign language attorneys as well.

Ideal Referrals:

Decision makers at law firms ( any size ), litigation attorneys especially, but any practice area, whether it's litigation or corporate, is a great referral.  Also, General Counsel and in house counsel within companies of all sizes.

Professional Bio:

For over 20 years, law firms and corporate legal departments have depended on Update Legal to provide them with superior candidates for temporary and permanent assignments. Update Legal is your contact for attorneys, paralegals and litigation support staff. And if you are a legal professional, we're your contact for new opportunities. 

With offices in ten locations across the US, Update Legal is one of the preeminent legal recruiting and placement firms in the country. But we never forget what made us that way. 

At Update Legal, we pride ourselves on responsiveness. Our clients have ever-changing staffing needs, so we're available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We provide clients with temporary, temporary-to-permanent and permanent placements as their needs dictate. And we've established long-term relationships that, in some cases, have existed as long as we've been in business. Specialties: Contract attorney and paralegal placement, Discovery Management, Legal placement.

Jacqueline Frank

Company: Guaranteed Rate
Profession: Residential Mortgage Lender
Power Team: Residential Realestate
Phone: 917-405-6661
Email: Jacqueline.frank@guaranteedrate.com
Website: people.rate.com/jacqueline-frank-45864

Products and/or services offered:

Financing for High Net worth Individuals

Ideal Referrals:

Realtors, Financial Advisors, Attorneys

Professional Bio:

VP of Mortgage Lending at GUARANTEED RATE

National Mortgage Lender

Licensed in 50 States

Deborah Blumenfield

Company: Graubard & Blumenfield, P.C.
Profession: Attorney
Power Team: Residential Real Estate
Phone: 212-447-0500
Business Address: 370 Lexington Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Email: deborah@graubard-law.com
Website: www.graubard-law.com

Ideal Referrals:

real estate brokers, mortgage brokers and other attorneys that do not practice real estate law

Deborah Donenfeld

Name: Deborah Donenfeld
Company: Photosynthesis Coaching
Profession: Life Coach
Power Team: Health & Wellness
Phone: 917-848-4081 
Email: ddphotosynthesis@gmail.com
Website: www.photosynthesiscoaching.com

Ideal Referrals:

People going through difficult life transitions including divorce or breakup, loss of a spouse, retirement, empty nest, getting back into the workforce after a pause, etc.

Professional Bio: 

I have been working as a coach since 2011, helping people through challenging life changes and around communication issues. I help them to navigate life when it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under them, and to learn how to choose trust over fear. And I work with professionals who want to communicate more authentically and effectively with clients, co-workers, bosses and those they manage.

Melanie Fox

Company: Speech Fox
Profession: Presentation Training & Accent Reduction
Power Team: Business Services
Phone: 631-220-4478
Business Address: 135 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Email: melanie@speechfox.com
Website: www.speechfox.com

Products and/or services offered:

Accent Reduction, Dialect Coaching, Presentation/Communication Skills Coaching, Spanish Pronunciation, World Language Learning

Ideal Referrals:

Global HR Leaders (CHRO), Director of Talent Development, Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leader

Professional Bio:

Melanie Fox is an acclaimed dialect coach and accent reduction specialist who helps non-native English speakers articulate clear business English and empowers performers to master dialects from around the world.

Through her brand, Speech Fox LLC, Melanie offers custom-tailored language lessons for English language learning. She customizes her classes to fit the unique needs of each client, based on his/her native language, English proficiency, personal goals, and business objectives. She designs her classes based on applications of principles in phonetics and phonology in a way that is accessible, practical, and enjoyable for clients. Melanie's expertise includes media interviews, business presentation skills, public speaking, and white-glove customer service for elite clientele. She focuses on pronunciation but can also incorporate grammar, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, TOEIC/TOEFL preparation, business writing, speech writing, sales pitches, customer service scripts, and other presentation skills upon request. She also coaches Spanish pronunciation for non-native speakers. Speech Fox lessons are available face-to-face in her Midtown Manhattan office or via live, recordable video-based web conference.


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