Jeffrey Forbes Profile

Jeffrey Forbes - The Client Doctor

Practice development advice for international business lawyers

Profile

Jeffrey is one of the leading authorities in Europe on practice development for professional service firms, consulting on an international basis for leading global and international law firms. He is also credited with introducing professional marketing as a unique discipline to Central & Eastern Europe.

Jeffrey has gained unique insights from his personal and professional experiences which are invaluable for firms when deciding how they want to model their practice. For example, Jeffrey was born and raised in the United States and has been living and working in Europe (both East and West) for more than 20 years. As a result, he has been exposed to the American, British and continental European approaches to professional service practice development.

For nearly a decade he built the largest network in Europe for marketing professional services, with more than 70 firms in a dozen countries in Central & Eastern Europe. He is the creator and organizer of the most international conference in the world on marketing professional services which was also the largest event of its kind on continental Europe. He is also the creator of the Best Band in Practice award which annually recognized firms in CEE for their marketing skills.

Education
B.A. in International Business, Schiller International University, Heidelberg, Germany, 1988

Professional Associations
American Bar Association (Associate Member)

Legal Marketing Association (Full International Member)

Professional Marketing Forum (From 1998 - 2006 Founder and Regional Chairman of the Central & Eastern European branch of the Professional Marketing Forum and now has lifetime membership)

Publications
Jeffrey is currently writing his first book on professional services practice development which will be the first book of its kind available in select European languages. Since 1992 Jeffrey has written more than 100 articles on marketing and management in publications such as: International Management, Marketing Director International, Central European Business Weekly, Corporate Finance Europe, Czech Business Journal, Prague Business Journal, European Business Law Review, Global Investor, International Money Marketing, Professional Marketing & Management, Professional Modern Management, and professional marketing.

Languages
English, German, Czech

Citizenship
United States

Personal

Jeffrey was born on 2 July 1963 in Peru, Illinois (USA) where he grew up. His first taste of Europe was in 1983 as a soldier stationed in West Germany near the Czechoslovak border. He returned to Europe in 1987 to finish his degree and moved to Prague in 1992 where he is now based. His wife is Czech and they have no children, but a unique dog: Atomic Tapanek.