Celebrating Two Years of Abrams & Schmidt LLC

Celebrating accomplishments is important, and this includes business events like two year anniversaries. Our law firm just celebrated 2 years of being in business with a wonderful open house for friends, business partners, and colleagues. We called it our “Grand Opening: So Grand It Was 2 Years In The Making,” thus titled by our graphic artist Cheryl Brunkow who designed the invitations.

Food was prepared by Chef Greg who developed a fabulous menu for us, including cherry wood smoked salmon with tarragon, artichoke dip with roasted tomatoes, Italian meatballs, fried eggrolls made fresh on site, and vegetable stuffed mushrooms. We went heavy on the sweet treats and served unbelievably wonderful flan with caramel sauce, old-fashioned cherry cobbler, decadent chocolate cream cheese brownies, and cheesecake with fresh strawberry or raspberry sauce.

It was a truly grand summer evening, celebrating a dream come true. Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble filled the air, along with many pleasant conversations. Business connections were made and new friendships kindled. Remember to celebrate the big and little accomplishments in your business life, and great food can really help!

Fun on the Links

Marylee Abrams and I had the wonderful opportunity on Monday to attend the White Bear Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual golf tournament. (No, neither of us golfed, that could have been dangerous for those around us.) We did however enjoy a beautiful day at the 8th hole of the lovely Dellwood Hills Golf Club, meeting and visiting with many local area business owners, city officials and golfers.

We appreciate the opportunity to share with these individuals what our firm does and learn more about the businesses in our community. It is amazing how much business gets done on a golf course. We are already looking forward to next year’s tournament. Neither of us realized golf could be so much fun.

 

Workplace Levity

Employers are stretched thin trying to keep afloat during these current economic times. Money is tight, banks are reluctant to loan, customers/clients don’t want to spend money and of course, employees still want their paychecks.

Employers need a little levity right about now. If you think your workplace has problems or gives you a headache, things could be worse. Your workplace and employees could have been included in the Top 10 List of Weirdest Work Stories for 2009.

It gives you a new perspective to compare the challenges at your workplace, with the employer who let an employee borrow his Ferrari and she flipped it causing $125,000 in damage; or the employer who had almost 150 employees get sick after a co-worker sprayed perfume at the workplace. This is not the way you want to brand your business or get it in the news. Hey, 2010 is looking brighter already!