Jessica Dobias, Marketing Manager at Bickerstaff, Named 2015 Rising Star by Legal Marketing Association

The Legal Marketing Association (LMA) has selected Jessica Dobias of Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP as its 2015 Rising Star.

Each year, the Rising Star award recognizes professionals who are 35 or younger or who have less than 10 years of overall work experience. The Rising Star honoree is an LMA member who is truly “one to watch” because of his/her contributions to the profession, the association, the community — and shows promise of leadership in the future.

As the marketing manager at Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP in Austin, Texas, Jessica Dobias leads the firm’s marketing, business development and client services initiatives. She oversees the firm’s branding, website, external communications and client services support team. Jessica works daily with cross-functional teams of attorneys and administration, and is often called on as an adviser to the firm’s attorneys, legal assistants and staff.

In Jessica’s first year at Bickerstaff, she led two significant projects, including a firm rebranding/reidentification project and a 10-month website redesign project. She also conducted multiple training sessions for the attorneys and staff on various marketing technology tools and low-to zero-cost legal research tools.

Jessica serves the Legal Marketing Association in many capacities. She is a member of the LMA Technology Committee’s Member Engagement Sub-Committee, Chair of the LMA Austin City Group, Technology Chair of the LMA Texas Chapter, and a Member of the Planning Committee for the LMA Marketing Technology Conference — West.

Jessica received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, her juris doctorate from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2011, and her LL.M. in Information Technology & Privacy Law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2012.

The award was presented to Jessica Dobias on April 15, 2015, at the LMA Annual Conference at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel in San Diego, Calif.

Learn more about the 2015 Rising Star.