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Audrey H. Rubin, president and founder of Rubin Solutions, Ltd., designs and implements strategic business processes that improve the financial performance and operations of corporate law departments professional services firms. Rubin creates and implements plans that turn inefficiencies into income in a matter of days and free executives and partners to focus on service and growth. 

As a seasoned Chief Operating Officer for large and small law firms and significant experience as General Counsel for three global companies, she has been on both sides of the business.   She excels in assessing legal budgets and systems, and negotiating profitable, valuable fee arrangements.  Rubin understands how front and backend processes can be streamlined and redesigned to build the bottom line. With her ability to understand how to drive the bottom line, reduce expenses, improve profits and collections, increase efficiencies, motivate personnel and extract additional value from existing client relationships, she gives clients and their service providers a competitive edge during precarious economic times.

In addition to improving established practices, Rubin sets new businesses on the path to profitability. For firms seeking to expand through mergers, she conducts due diligence and instills operational and financial discipline to help firms maximize the marriage. She is also a speaker and columnist.

Prior to her role as a COO for the large Chicago firm Wildman Harrold Allen and Dixon, and the boutique firm Butler Rubin Saltarelli and Boyd, she served as General Counsel and Vice President of Legal and Human Resources for three global companies (Orbitz (in formation), Grant Thornton and Apollo Travel Services), and before that, a business lawyer in private practice. She has also served as a board member of several domestic and international businesses and not-for-profits.

Rubin received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law where she was on the Dean’s List. She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. and was a Yale National Scholar. She received certification as a mediator and arbitrator from the De Paul University School of Law.  She was certified in Business for Executives at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.  Rubin has served as a board member of the Association of Yale Alumni, the Chicago Bar Association, the Jewish National Fund, and is currently President of the Yale Club of Chicago. You can learn more about Audrey Rubin and Rubin Solutions, Ltd. at http://www.rubinsolutions.com.

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