Evolve and Thrive

Amid constant changes in our industry, some firms, and some lawyers, will adapt. They will create new plans, and constantly evaluate whether their firms are poised for success now, and in the future.

Others will wish that nothing would change. Will stick to their original plans. Will never look back – or ahead.

Let’s make sure you’re in the first group.

About Camille

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Camille Stell serves as President and CEO of Lawyers Mutual Consulting & Services. She is a frequent author and speaker on the topics of ethics and professionalism, succession planning, marketing and business development and law firm trends of the future.

She works with lawyers and law firms in business development and marketing coaching, strategic planning and succession planning. She has facilitated law firm retreats and coaching sessions for law firms of all sizes whether small North Carolina firms, regional firms, as well as global law firms. She has facilitated ABA Women Rainmaker workshops for hundreds of women attorneys in North and South Carolina. She has facilitated “Future of the Profession” workshops for a consortium of law firm recruiting professionals and law school career service office professionals. She is an organizer of the newly created Legal Innovators Meetup in the Triangle.

Camille is a frequent speaker at law school campuses across the state. She facilitates Strengthsfinders workshops as well as speaks on topics such as strategic networking for job search, professional etiquette, inter-generational communication skills, the future of law and starting your own law firm.

Camille has thirty years of experience in the legal industry including law firm experience as a paralegal and as a recruiting and marketing professional. In her capacity as a marketing professional, Camille was responsible for building the profile of the Triangle offices of K & L Gates (formerly Kennedy Covington), coaching attorneys, developing marketing strategy and client targeting plans for the office as well as individual practice groups.

She is a graduate of Meredith College and the Meredith College Paralegal Program and recently completed a term on the Meredith College Alumnae Board. She is a past member of the North Carolina Bar Association Transitioning Lawyer Commission, a past Chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, a past member of the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Subcommittee studying Avvo, as well as past Chair of the Legal Marketing Association Raleigh City Group. She has served as officer and director of local, state and national paralegal associations.

She has served on the editorial board of Legal Assistant Today magazine, Women’s Edge magazine, Carolina Paralegal News and as the Supplements Editor for North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

In 2011, Camille was recognized by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly as a member of the inaugural class of “Leaders in the Law.” In 2016, Camille was recognized by the Triangle Business Journal as a “Women in Business” award winner. In 2018, she was named as a member of the inaugural Pro Bono Resource Center Advisory Board.

About Erik

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Erik graduated from Boston College Law School. After graduating, he worked in the litigation department of large corporate law firms in Boston and Raleigh. He then shifted to practice in an innovative, technology-forward family law firm in Raleigh. As an attorney and later as managing shareholder, Erik helped to steer the firm through years of double-digit revenue growth as well as geographic and personnel expansion from one office with four attorneys to three offices with a multi-disciplinary client services team of nearly twenty lawyers, accountants, and mental health professionals.

In 2008, Erik became the founding Director of the Center for Practice Management at the North Carolina Bar Association. He served in that capacity for nine years, during which he helped hundreds of North Carolina lawyers with law firm start up, technology, marketing and management. He organized, spoke and taught at countless CLE programs on legal technology and law firm management, and was a frequent presenter at law schools, bar associations, law firm retreats, and conferences across the US and Canada. At the NCBA, Erik served for the last five years as Senior Director of Membership Experience. In that role, he led the integration, reorganization and management of the member-facing and revenue-producing departments of the NCBA: continuing education, membership, Center for Practice Management, membership services, communities and the lawyer referral service.

"We believe the afternoon that we spent with you, and the follow-up work the next day, is going to help us tremendously in the days to come."

Essex Richards

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The time and energy you spent with me and everyone in our law firm has focused all of us on the strategies necessary to keep everyone secure, grounded, and future facing.

Eben Rawls, Rawls, Scheer, Clary & Mingo, PLLC

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It is a distinct pleasure to recommend Camille Stell to attorneys contemplating retirement. She provided invaluable assistance as I navigated my way through the transfer of my law practice, letting go of clients and transitioning into mediation as my new career.

Nancy Black Norelli, Norelli Law

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