Terry Graham, M.A.

415/686-8442

Marketing & Public Relations Consultant

Marketing Professional Services

Terry Graham has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, public relations and sales. She has worked with various professionals, emphasizing attorneys practicing in small-to-medium sized regional and local firms, and sole practitioners. She specializes in producing and implementing strategic marketing plans for firms, departments and individual professionals.

In 1991, she founded the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). She served as 1992 President of LMA/Bay Area and on its Board of Directors in 1993. A nationally published author/columnist on the topic of legal services marketing, she also offers workshops on a wide range of related topics and has been the featured speaker at various professional association events. In 1994, she served on the Editorial Board of Legal Marketing Exchange, a national publication. She was the first non-lawyer appointed advisor to the Law Practice Management Section of the State Bar of California from 1994 to 1995, and taught continuing education classes in the ethics of marketing communication throughout the state. She has published more than 200 articles on legal marketing in numerous publications.

In 1999 to 2009, Ms. Graham lived and working in Ashland, Oregon; Sedona, Arizona; Boulder, Colorado; and Couer d'Alene, Idaho. She returned to Marin County in 2007. In 2009, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, focusing on membership outreach. She continues to volunteer for MCBC at events throughout Marin.

In 2007, she provided public relations services to the Presidio Historical Association and other groups involved in the successful fight to keep a proposed privately owned contemporary art museum off of the Presidio of San Francisco's historic Main Post (c. 1776). Earlier, she offered bike tours of Angel Island, where Spanish explorers docked and charted the San Francisco Bay in 1775.

Before starting her consulting practice, Ms. Graham worked for IBM, completing the company's extensive sales, business management and technical training program. While there, she consulted with and trained executives on hardware/software business applications. The curricula she developed were used throughout the Midwest.

Ms. Graham received her M.A.in mass communications from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) graduating in the top 10% of her class. She earned her B.A. with distinction (cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Spanish with a minor in journalism. She spent her junior year studying at the Universidad de Madrid, returning to Spain after graduation to work in Palma de Mallorca. Prior to earning her graduate degree, she worked for a year in Heidelberg, Germany with the US Army.
Valet Bike Parking
at the 2011
Sausalito
Arts Festival.
Photo by
Elliot Karlan,
Volunteering
for Amgen's
2009 Bicycle Tour of California
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