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Nikki Haley Has Guts

Jul 30, 2019

Nikki Haley arrived for her New York City presentation with open enthusiasm. She brought to the stage the confidence of a consistent winner, the inviting ...

Helen Mirren Mesmerizes

Mar 25, 2019

Triple crowned actor Helen Mirren has earned an Academy Award, a Tony and an Olivier. And, she dazzles the media as a stunning fashion icon ...

Feb 4, 2019

On a wintery night, the pairing up of Presidents Bush (43) and Clinton (42) warmed up the magnificent sanctuary in an instant. A dazzling roster ...

Wendeen Eolis Observes Albright & Cheney In Action

Jan 3, 2019

The decision to unite Madelaine Albright, and Dick Cheney, in their first joint appearance-ever, this past fall, was a brilliant example of creativity and gumption ...

Jul 23, 2018

As one of a handful of well-known women poker players in the 90's (and the only one with a full-time day job, unrelated to gambling), ...

Jul 3, 2018

For her first post-accident outing, Wendeen chose a wine and cheese tasting at the French Consulate, just a block from her city home. Hosted by ...

Journalists Scramble to Understand Giuliani

Jun 13, 2018

Shortly after Rudy Giuliani was appointed to President's Trump personal legal team, journalists from all over the country began to analyze his selection by the ...

May 2, 2018

In the 80's era of extravagance and glitz, Barry Wine turned The Quilted Giraffe Restaurant into a thing of beauty and a joy forever for ...

Apr 8, 2018

On a cold day in January, a busload of students arrived at Weil Gotshal and Manges, from a Bronx neighborhood public school-- for lessons in ...

Yankees Boss Levine Huddles with Wendeen

Mar 4, 2018

Wendeen says, "Randy Levine minds his business by speaking his mind--with equal parts knowledge and passion." Best known as President of the New York Yankees, ...

Feb 11, 2018

Wendeen reconnected with a remarkably relaxed and refreshed President Barack Obama, outside Washington (which is where they first met in 2008). The president was the ...

Jan 8, 2018

It is reaffirming, uplifting and with extreme gratitude, I start the year by recognizing NYU President Andrew Hamilton who greeted me this past fall, on ...

At Home with Israel Ambassador Aharoni

Dec 22, 2017

Wendeen recalls visit with Israel's Consul General, Ido Aharoni at his New York residence. It was an intimate gathering of members of the International Women's Forum (WFNY), in advance ...

Dec 18, 2017

Wendeen listened to the tribute to Nelson Mandela at his memorial service in Soweto with first-hand knowledge of the joy, strength, and pride the South ...

Dec 17, 2017

(NEW YORK, NEW YORK) The matter of legal recruiting fees has become thornier than ever, as law firms, increasingly, seek to renegotiate placement fees—shortly before ...

Oct 22, 2017

At a Washington dinner Wendeen Eolis and MSNBC news anchor Mika Brezinski were curious guests of at a CPAC meeting; both had been invited by ...

Wendeen and Bill share memorable moment

Sep 7, 2017

Wendeen and Bill take a photo after chatting amiably about their acquaintanceship which dates back to his first stint as NYC Police Commissioner under Mayor ...

Wendeen puts Mayor on Spot

Sep 6, 2017

In a meeting, by invitation of the Association for a Better New York ABNY), the Mayor schooled business and civic leaders and a sprinkling of ...

Wendeen and Al Gore meet again!

Sep 6, 2017

Wendeen and Al Gore meet up again in a different environment, before his presentation at New York’s most renowned and extraordinarily beautiful synagogue, Temple Emanuel. Last ...

Sep 5, 2017

Like all who had the good fortune to cross paths with Jay Oliva throughout his illustrious career as a pre-eminent educator and ultimately as the ...

Sep 4, 2017

At the International Women’s Forum in Morocco “dine-arounds” with diplomats, academics, and corporate CEOs were among the most popular events in the non-stop two day ...

Sep 4, 2017

Most everyone agrees that politics is personal, but for Wendeen it has meant friendships - many of long standing that have grown without boundaries and ...

Sep 4, 2017

For more than 10 years Marcel Luske and I have met often as clients, as friends with a shared passion for fair play, out paths crossing ...

Sep 4, 2017

Wendeen and Sara rub shoulders amiably as they chat about the beauty of Alaska. In 2008 Wendeen predicted, publicly, that picking Sarah Palin as the VP candidate could be ...

Sep 4, 2017

Shortly before the summer recess, Wendeen and Joe discussed his latest federal legislative bill in support of online gaming. She thanks him for the generosity of his ...

Sep 4, 2017

Wendeen was there with her step dad at the late Lew Rudin’s Florida “Shangri-la, listening to two great story tellers–Lew, the legendary NY real estate mogul and Wendeen’s Dad, ...

Sep 4, 2017

Wendeen reconnects with Mary Jo White, SEC Chair, at WFNY breakfast, asking how she balances expansion of corporate accountability with tradition of allowing corporations to agree to high ...

Celebrating Nelson Mandela Day

Sep 3, 2017

Celebrations with President Nelson Mandela are filled with food for the soul. In their first meeting, Wendeen joined members of City Hall in welcoming President Mandela ...

Myron Chevetz, Finest First VP

Sep 3, 2017

Leading together, Mike and Wendeen set in motion the 1974 legislative effort in the State of New York to overhaul the statute that applies to ...

Wendeen Is Awed in Steinbrenner’s Suite

Sep 3, 2017

Until her recent visit with Hal Steinbrenner in the owners’ suite, she knew just a tad about baseball from Rudy Giuliani, Randy Levine, and Alex Rodriguez. But ...

Wendeen Tutors Business Women

Sep 3, 2017

At a luncheon held at the Hilton, Wendeen is the keynote speaker moving from one roundtable to another, coaching lawyers on the cusp of partnership ...

Sep 3, 2017

The Women's Forum small dinners are reason enough for accomplished women to want to be part of this organization. It is filled with leaders and ...

Sep 3, 2017

On the first business day in January 1995, Governor George Pataki invited Wendeen to lunch at his new digs on the 57th floor of World Trade Center ...

Sep 3, 2017

Last weekend Rick Marek, President of the prestigious real estate leasing boutique, Vortex Group, hosted an annual summer cocktail party with tall drinks and big servings ...

Chief Judge Loretta Preska’s Send-Off

Sep 2, 2017

At a private reception in her chambers, Chief Judge Loretta Preska (S.D.N.Y.) hosted fellow members of the New York branch of the International Women's Forum. ...

NYC Insider Wayne Barrett with Wendeen

Sep 2, 2017

Gotham’s preeminent political reporter Wayne Barrett leaves no stones unturned in covering New York City’s rich, famous, and powerful players, except when dining on porterhouse ...

Prince Albert Is Thoroughly Charming

Sep 1, 2017

Prince Albert was the consummate host at his private reception during the Monaco iGaming Conference of 2010. A pet project of the prince, the conference ...

Wendeen Sails with Rudy in New York Harbor

Sep 1, 2017

On a cloudless night before 9/11 changed the world, America’s Mayor chatted up Republican bigwigs and New York friends on a boatride that highlighted the ...

Madame Secretary Shares Strategies

Aug 30, 2017

Long before Hillary Rodham Clinton proved to be the consummate team player as our Secretary of State, she had proved her mettle in my eyes ...

Newt Gears up for 2012

Aug 30, 2017

Chatting up former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at a small Washington reception, I realized quickly that he and I share one common denominator—the ...

Apr 8, 2017

Effective April 9th 2018, Wendeen's latest updated seminars, workshops, and one-on-one coaching sessions will transpose negotiating gambits into connected decision strategies for confernece rooms courtrooms ...

Mar 7, 2017

A dramatically changing dynamic has surfaced in the recruitment and selection of C-Suite executives and corporate board candidates, from the legal profession, according to EOLIS' January trend study. Public profile ...

Mar 6, 2017

Members of the elite Women's Forum of New York gathered, in advance of International Women's Day, for a unique seminar: Power Poker from the Board Room to the Card Room, presented ...

Jan 25, 2017

While the public hears, daily, from media and political pundits about the new President's contingent of advisors in the West Wing-- the name Don McGahn, ...

Jan 24, 2017

For decades, lawyers labored over their resumes--not their public profile or social media postings or comments of family members in not so private chat rooms. ...

Jan 3, 2017

What could be better to celebrate our 50th anniversary of legal consulting services, than our brand new responsive website design with more robust content, presented crisply. Go ...

Jan 3, 2017

For many years, EOLIS has produced blog posts on an external site and we have published articles at various digital media outlets. Now you need ...

Oct 12, 2015

Small law firms with strong start up and mid-sized growing clients have catapulted into star status in the eyes of mid -sized as well as national and ...

Oct 12, 2015

NEW YORK (May 20, 2014) A recent survey of partners at Am Law 200 firms indicates a likely slowdown in partner group acquisitions in the ...

Oct 12, 2015

NEW YORK (Spring 2014) Based upon EOLIS' updated findings in a survey of lawyers over 60, EOLIS is moving forward with a customized attorney career ...

Dec 15, 2014

Asking productive questions is a key element to an effective negotiating strategy in business, politics, and card rooms.—where I have spent a fair share of my spare time. ...

Sep 8, 2014

Matching your negotiating strategies to your negotiating personality is as critical to client development as it is making a deal or winning a case. There ...

Dec 1, 2013

NEW YORK (December 2013) Results of EOLIS' survey of senior partners (over the age of 60) at New York law firms indicates a large scale ...

Jul 30, 2013

Eolis analyzes and commentates on the likely trajectory of the most recent online gaming bill introduced by Congressman Joe Barton—H.R. 2666 dated July 12, 2013. Obama ...

Apr 18, 2013

(NEW YORK, NEW YORK April 18, 2013) With increasing frequency, law firm partnerships are pondering protocols applied to the departures of highly productive partners-especially rainmakers. ...

Mar 26, 2013

Gaming lawyers with regulatory experience are in unprecedented demand in the Middle Atlantic States with New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware and West Virginia scrambling ...

Jan 14, 2013

No matter the improved fortunes of companies and law firms this past year, pruning, streamlining and all around tough love continue to mark the management ...

Aug 20, 2012

As law firms have made more definitive transitions to operations as big businesses, they have become increasingly receptive to adopting a celebrity and worker bee mentality with much wider gap ...

Jun 3, 2012

At the annual cornerstone meeting of the International Women’s Forum in Morocco last week, corporate, civic and political leaders from thirty countries convened to assess ...

Apr 30, 2012

More than 25 percent of the firms' New York partners (as of January 2012), have bolted from its ranks, many with hair-raising stories of a ...

Feb 17, 2012

Maximizing one's chances of landing a dream position requires plenty of skill and an undeniable element of good luck--for lawyers in any form of transition. ...

Oct 14, 2011

The fourth quarter of every year is invariably rife with gossip as to the anticipated year-end fortunes for law firms and the fate of their lawyers--up and ...

Sep 19, 2011

With the onset of the 2008 recession came increased vigilance by companies on their outside legal fees. However, over the past three years our studies ...

Sep 7, 2011

Last April 15th, the US Department of Justice brought down the house of cards built by the three leading Internet-based poker companies serving United States ...

Aug 10, 2011

Did our clients benefit from our advice in 2008 or are they sitting ducks for another cataclysmic event just around the corner? We warned in ...

Jun 16, 2011

Since the waning months of 2008, when the law firm economy seemed to turn on its head, law firms have been debating how to assure ...

May 18, 2011

Last month, The AmLaw Daily reported on a $1.5 million fee dispute between the legal recruiting company, Alan Miles & Associates and Bingham McCutchen, the ...

Apr 11, 2011

The candidate, the candidate's spouse, colleagues and recruiters generally agree that in this competitive market one needs the right elevator pitch with an appropriate underpinning — "a ...

Mar 28, 2011

Since the late 60's Eolis International Group has been a proponent of legalized gaming, with specialized services to commercial casinos and tribal gaming properties in the United ...

Mar 11, 2011

Teatime at the Plaza Hotel in New York City is a uniquely fancy experience. But visits by the hoi polloi, including society matrons and other ...

Feb 2, 2011

NEW YORK (February 14, 2011) “Do as the Romans do!” So say some of our colleagues about the increasingly relaxed dress rules for lawyers. For ...

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