Service Partners

To bring the very best resources to our clients in a timely fashion, L&M often engages the services of other professional service providers. These services may be subcontractors to L&M and somewhat invisible to our clients. Or, they may be contractors working directly with the client association. We're pleased to work with the following professionals and to bring them to our clients.

Accounting & Bookkeeping

Benson & Neff Benson & Neff is a full service accounting firm located in the financial district of San Francisco and with affiliate relationships in many foreign countries. Benson & Neff performs tax preparation and financial review services for L&M and several client organizations.

Legal

Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos, Rudy, LLP is one of San Francisco's oldest and most respected firms. L&M's clients are free to select their own independent legal counsel, however, many of our clients have enjoyed and benefited from the services of Hanson Bridgett.

The relationship between the board of directors of an industry association and their legal counsel is a direct attorney client arrangement. This is a relationship many of L&M' s clients enjoy with Hanson Bridgett.

The benefits of using L&M and Hanson Bridgett are the efficiencies and effectiveness that comes from any experienced team working together. For mutual clients, Hanson Bridgett attorneys and L&M staff have teamed up to:

• form nonprofit entities;
• develop anti-trust guidelines;
• write bylaws, nondisclosure agreements & membership agreements;
• file for trademarks; and
• develop product certification and trademark programs

Interested parties should contact Michael Duncheon, Partner.

Marketing & PR

DesignKIT, Inc.

Beginning in 1989, Kit Örn, President of DesignKit, Inc. saw an opportunity to develop a different kind of graphic design studio. DesignKit combines a strong sense of business, a commitment to deadlines and budgets with the skills and expertise necessary to create effective visual communication.

Their primary areas of expertise are creative concepting, copy writing, art direction, graphic design, production and print supervision. Since 1995 they have partnered with L&M offering these services to their clients as a means of efficiently creating marketing materials with target market-focused visual impact.

DesignKit has provided graphic design services for the SCSI Trade Association since 1997. DesignKit has also provided design services for various projects to the FCIA and other L&M client associations.

Lea Schwartz, Point Public Relations, whose primary expertise lies in media relations, has developed close relationships with many of the key hardware and software editors and analysts over her 16 years in the profession. She has planned and implemented numerous product launches, complete with press tours & conferences, press kit and product literature production, image and product advertising, show management and spokesperson's training.

Schwartz has provided press relations for the SCSI Trade Association since 1999 as one of her high technology clients.

System Administration

Zocalo is a premier provider of full time Internet connection services to the commercial enterprise. Zocalo has been in operation since 1991. L&M has been using Zocalo for co-loation services of its servers since 1994. Since this time L&M has enjoyed exceptional service not typically found in standard ISP offerings.

Services include: 7x24x365 connections, redundant power supply backup, system administration and routine file back up support.