Management Team
Company Executives
James G. Sokolove
Chairman
Attorney James G. Sokolove is principal of Sokolove Law, LLC. A pioneer in the marketing of legal services, Jim has lectured at law schools on ethics and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs to discuss personal injury law and lawyer advertising. He has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of "Greater Boston's 100 Most Influential Business People of the 20th Century" and by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of the "Most Influential Attorneys of the Past 25 Years" for his efforts in increasing legal access through advertising.
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and of the Suffolk University School of Law, Jim worked as a VISTA volunteer community organizer and lawyer in the early seventies.
Throughout his professional career, Jim has maintained a high level of commitment to public service. In 1985, he established the Law Project for Multi-handicapped Children, a two-year pro bono legal program. The Law Project provided free legal assistance and information to families with disabled children throughout Massachusetts and provided training to parents and lay advocates. It received a Presidential Citation for Private Sector Initiatives.
In 1987, Jim began a new project, Cycleline, a public safety and information campaign aimed at motorcyclists. For his work with motorcycle safety, Jim received a 1988 Public Service Award from the Central Massachusetts Chapter of the National Safety Council.
Jim also has been active in the fight against teenage drunk driving and auto accidents. In 1989, he was awarded a certificate of merit from Students Against Drunk Driving for his work.
Continuing his commitment to the disabled community, Jim established the James Sokolove Personal Best Awards in 1990 and the Special Young Visions Art Competition. For six years, these programs honored outstanding achievements by young people with disabilities.
Jim also formed a separate business entity, Trial Lawyers Marketing Inc. (TLMI). TLMI's goal was to educate attorneys and marketing professionals about practical and effective legal services marketing through seminars, roundtable discussions and networking.
In 2008, Jim’s Sokolove Charitable Fund partnered with Stanford University’s Center on the Legal Profession to launch the Roadmap to Justice Project. The Project convened a renowned group of academicians, lawyers, judges and business innovators to create an action plan for greater access to civil justice for the majority of Americans.
Michael J. Skoler
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Marketing Officer 
As Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Skoler is responsible for translating business vision into operational excellence. Mike has directed Sokolove Law's transformation from an established regional marketer of legal services to the largest marketer of legal services in the country.
Mike brings an experienced yet non-traditional view regarding the forces reshaping the 21st Century delivery of legal services. He is a frequent and in-demand speaker in both the legal and business communities.
Prior to joining Sokolove Law, Mike was a founding member and Sr. Director of Arthur Andersen’s Global Corporate Finance Group, the investment banking arm of Arthur Andersen, LLP. Prior to Andersen, he was an Associate with Riverside Partners, a leveraged buyout firm headquartered in Boston.
Mike also takes a very active role in corporate and social responsibility initiatives including the company's recent participation in Habitat for Humanity and the Linus Foundation. His personal charitable work extends to several community charities and to a mentoring program for undergraduates.
Mike earned his MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in Wellesley, MA and holds a BSBA in Finance and Law from American University in Washington DC. He is qualified as a General Securities Representative.
Marc Stern
Vice President, Business Development 
Marc Stern is Vice President, Business Development of Sokolove Law. He is responsible for establishing new relationships with law firms who stand to benefit from Sokolove Law's marketing expertise.
Marc oversees the Business Development team and the company’s Research and Development team. Marc enjoys blogging about the benefits of being part of Sokolove Law’s national co-counsel network and how Sokolove Law’s business model meets the ever-changing needs of co-counsel firms and their business goals.
Marc has extensive experience in developing, leading and executing business-to-business sales strategies for services, products and new company divisions. Before joining Sokolove Law, Marc founded the Partner Development Group, LLC, a provider of outsourced business development across industries. Prior to that, at The Kessler Group in Boston, he was a senior vice president managing business development activities on behalf of established brands, including Bank of America, HSBC and Kessler Direct, a start-up division providing direct marketing solutions.
Previously, Marc led sales strategy and direct sales at Aliaswire, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, and worked for Fidelity Investments in a variety of business development and strategic marketing capacities.
Marc holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Hartford and an MBA from Boston University.
Jay Haverty
Chief Operating Officer 
Jay Haverty is the Chief Operating Officer of Sokolove Law. In this role he supports the CEO with the day-to-day management of the overall business while overseeing Service Operations, Information Technology and New Business Ventures.
In his previous position as Sokolove Law’s Chief Technology Officer, Jay was responsible for identifying new technologies and business opportunities in order to aggressively drive the firm’s future growth, improve its delivery of customer services and support the growing success of Sokolove Law’s co-counsel firms. Prior to being named CTO, Jay was Sokolove Law’s Director of Innovation. In that role, his focus was to build the firm’s core business by instituting best practices from various industries and to incubate new business opportunities.
Before joining Sokolove Law, Jay was a Senior Associate at Accretive, LLC, a New York-based private equity firm specializing in large-scale business process outsourcing. He also served as Principal at Celsius Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital firm, where he focused on telecommunication services. Before joining Celsius, Jay was a Consultant at Mercer Oliver Wyman, a financial services consulting firm, where he assisted clients on a broad array of strategic issues ranging from acquisition integration to business development and worked on the Corporate Finance team of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Technology Group.
Jay graduated with honors from the Jerome Fischer Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania with an M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Engineering School, a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the Engineering School and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School.
Gabriel Miller
General Counsel 
Gabriel Miller, General Counsel of Sokolove Law, oversees all legal activities involving the firm. His legal oversight extends to national marketing compliance and relationships with affiliate firms as well as day-to-day firm operations.
Gabe served as General Counsel in a variety of industries before joining Sokolove Law. He was General Counsel for Captivate Network, a media company reaching over 2 million viewers each day. Prior to that, he was General Counsel for Fleet Real Estate Capital, a multi-billion dollar commercial loan originator and servicer and Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel at Fleet Bank, responsible for real estate issues involving several thousand domestic and international facilities. Gabe started his career as a commercial litigator at Cohen & Wolf, Boston MA.
Gabe is a contributing author to Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel published by Thomson West. He also writes a regular column for New England In-House Magazine and has trained thousands of lawyers and business development specialists in legal marketing, sales and service.
Gabe has a B.S. from the University of Connecticut Honors Scholars Program and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Robert Bunn
Chief Financial Officer 
Rob Bunn joined Sokolove Law as its Chief Financial Officer in May 2008 after consulting for the company for the previous four years. Rob oversees the company's finance and accounting functions. He also plays a central role in developing and evaluating strategic direction and capital market activities.
While consulting for Sokolove Law, Rob was a founder and principal at White Oak Partners, LLC, a management consultancy that provided financial and strategic consulting services to early stage and middle market growth companies. Prior to founding White Oak Partners, Rob served as Vice President - Finance and Operations at Create!form International Inc., a document output management software company with offices in the US, UK and Australia. Rob's tenure at Create!form ended in September 2003, when Create!form was successfully sold to Bottomline Technologies (de) Inc.
Prior to joining Create!form, Rob was an associate with Andersen Capital Markets LLC, and led an acquisition team for Ferguson Enterprises, one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of building supplies.
Rob is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society. He has a BS in Finance and Economics from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and a MDiv with high honors from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.