Ari Kaplan is the author of Amazon.com bestseller The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (Thomson-West, 2008), which is about how law students, lawyers and other professionals can stand out in today’s stagnant economy. The New York Law Journal called it “[a] must-have treasure box of marketing ideas.”

He has addressed thousands of individuals in the legal community worldwide, who identify with his sincere approach to marketing.

Kaplan offers strategic and cost-effective suggestions for immediately transforming one’s perspective, profile and practice. He spent nearly nine years with large law firms in New York City and understands the delicate balance between self-promotion and professionalism. He has interviewed hundreds of authorities on related topics and brings those perspectives to bear in each of his presentations.

Kaplan has been recognized in The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, the Houston Chronicle, the ABA Journal, Above the Law, the National Jurist, the Chicago Lawyer, the California Recorder, the Miami Herald, the New York Post and other publications. As the principal of Ari Kaplan Advisors, he provides law-related ghostwriting and industry research services, personal coaching, and training for law students and legal professionals on publishing, communications, career enhancement, business development and networking.

In addition to being the founder of the Ari Kaplan Advisors charitable book collection through the Intergenerational Literacy Project in Chelsea, Massachusetts, he is a member of the Law Technology News Editorial Advisory Board and a regular contributor to the Law.com Legal Tech blog. He is also on the Board of Editors for ALM's Marketing the Law Firm and Legal Tech. As a ghostwriter, he focuses on legal technology and other law-related topics.

Kaplan has published over 200 articles, served as an Internet law commentator for CNET Radio and has been interviewed on CNN. He received Apex Awards in 2007 and 2008 for feature writing, and was named a “Law Star” by LawCrossing.

He is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. He earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston University.

He has had the privilege of speaking for the following:

Law Schools: Appalachian School of Law; American University Washington College of Law; Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law; Brooklyn Law School; Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law; Chapman University School of Law; Chicago-Kent College of Law; Georgia State University College of Law; Harvard Law School; Howard University School of Law; John Marshall Law School; Marquette University School of Law; New York Law School; Phoenix School of Law; SMU – Dedman School of Law; Stanford Law School; St. John’s University Law School; Tulane University Law School; University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law; UCLA School of Law; University of Denver Sturm College of Law; University of Houston Law Center; and the University of Texas School of Law.

Law Firms: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Dickstein Shapiro; Fish & Richardson; Foley & Lardner; Gardere Wynn & Sewell; Greenberg Traurig; Kaye Scholer; Patton Boggs; Pepper Hamilton; Shearman & Sterling; Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan; Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis; Wiley Rein; Wilmer Hale; Winston & Strawn; and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, among others.

Organizations: Association of Legal Administrators (NYC Chapter); Brooklyn Bar Association; CT Summation; Employers Counsel Network (M. Lee Smith Publishers); Fios, Inc.; FTI Consulting; Int'l Federation of Intellectual Prop. Counsel (FICPI); Louisiana State Bar Association (keynote speaker); Maricopa County Bar Association (Phoenix); International Litigation Support Leaders (luncheon keynote speaker); Juriscape; Masters Conference; Michigan State University Law School; NALP (Annual Conference & PDI plenary speaker); Nassau County Bar Association; New York City Bar Association; New York County Lawyers Association; New York State Bar Association; Phi Alpha Delta International; Pima County Bar Association (Tucson); Rocket Matter; TrialGraphix.