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Amy Nouri, vice president and partner of Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing, has been selected as a finalist in the 20th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business competition. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run.

Amy is a finalist for “Female Executive of the Year: Business Services” in the small business category; more than 1,500 entries were submitted this year for consideration in more than 100 categories. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 200 business professionals around the world, working on six juries. Their scores will also determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements that will be revealed at the annual awards dinner and presentations this November in New York.

In addition to overseeing Firesign’s major accounts, Amy has helped the agency achieve significant financial milestones, delivered exceptional results for our clients, and guided an award-winning marketing team. Under Amy’s leadership, Firesign was chosen as a Platinum Winner for Team Achievement in the 2021 MarCom Awards, an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. In its home market, Firesign has been voted No. 1 for five years running in all three marketing categories in Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s Reader Rankings.

In addition to being one of the nation’s only marketing agencies solely devoted to the legal industry, Firesign is nationally certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center-Midwest, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) – the nation’s largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women.

Katherine Hollar Barnard, Managing Partner and CEO of Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing, will be honored this fall as one of PR Daily’s Top Women in Marketing for 2023.

Katie was a winner in the Agency Leader category. PR Daily also selected the top Brand, Content, Product, Social Media, and Tech/Digital marketers as well as the best Data/Analytics and Team leaders from a nationwide pool of nominees, with winners representing companies such as Adobe, Burger King, Disney, Hulu, Nasdaq, and Samsung. The Top Women in Marketing “shape and advance the marketing industry by inspiring and uniting their co-workers and peers, telling powerful stories for their clients and organizations.”

Firesign was launched by Katie in February 2017 as one of the nation’s only marketing agencies solely devoted to the legal industry, helping law firms build their brands and bottom lines. Firesign is nationally certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center-Midwest, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) – the nation’s largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women.

Under Katie’s leadership, Firesign’s work has been recognized internationally by the dotCOMM Awards and the MarCom Awards; in its home market, Firesign has won every category in Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s Reader Rankings for five consecutive years.

Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing’s website redesign for client Copilevitz, Lam & Raney was recently selected as a Gold winner in the 2023 dotCOMM Awards, marking Firesign’s third award win for website design this year.

The dotCOMM Awards, an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication, are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals’ (AMCP), “one of the largest, oldest and most respected evaluators of creative work in the marketing and communication industry.”

There were over 2,000 entries from the United States and other countries in this years’ competition, with only the Top 30 percent of scored entries receiving recognition. In addition to the Gold award for best website redesign, Firesign’s website for Copilevitz, Lam & Raney also received Honorable Mention for best legal website.

Click here to learn more about dotCOMM awards, and view a full list of Gold winners available here.

Earlier this year, Firesign’s website design for client AEON Law earned an Award of Distinction from the Communicator Awards and was chosen among the winners of Lawyerist’s Best Law Firm Websites award.

Firesign’s website design for client AEON Law has earned a second award win in 2023, this time from the Communicator Awards, an international program in its 29th year recognizing excellence, effectiveness, and innovation across all areas of communication.

The Communicator Awards honored Firesign with an Award of Distinction, presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement. Click here to see the full list of winners. The Communicator Awards are sanctioned and reviewed by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, an invitation-only group of professionals from media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms such as Amazon, Disney, ESPN, Spotify, the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, and Wired.

Earlier this year, Lawyerist, an online publication and community geared to guiding healthier small law firms, chose Firesign among the winners of its annual Best Law Firm Websites award.

Firesign Marketing was selected as a Gold Winner in the 2023 Hermes Creative Awards, an international competition administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.

The winning entry was a holiday card Firesign created for client Hanley Flight & Zimmerman, an intellectual property law firm in Chicago. Firesign managing partner Katherine Hollar Barnard and graphic designer Sky Morrell teamed up to create the concept “Great Moments in Thanksgiving IP” and the card featured patent drawings of kitchen innovations we take for granted today, like the potato masher. The award shows that legal marketing can be educational and entertaining at the same time.

The 2023 competition was expected to attract around 6,500 entries. Of those, only 16 percent win Platinum, the top award, and 22 percent the Gold Award. The entries are judged individually by AMCP members, which consist of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, digital media production, and freelance professionals.