NEW YORK, July 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ALM, a leading provider of news and business information to the legal and real estate industries, today announced that Renee Citera has been appointed vice president.
Citera fills a newly created position at ALM, where she will be tasked with building a team of professionals who will work with customers at large law firms. The ALM Large Law team will focus exclusively on understanding the needs of these customers and will package together ALM content and products to help them serve their clients, operate their businesses and grow their practices.
Citera joins ALM after a 27-year career at LexisNexis. Most recently, she was vice president and managing director of Global Research Solutions, where she was directly responsible for a large portion of the company's legal research product portfolio. Previously, she held a variety of leadership positions in strategic product development and market planning, as well as a number of sales and sales leadership positions.
"Renee has a proven track record of working with large law firms to address their needs for legal news and information through the development of creative business strategies," said Kevin Michielsen, senior vice president of information and research solutions at ALM. "Large law firms have relied on ALM's content for many years and, with new services we're introducing to the marketplace, there is a great opportunity for these firms to gain more value and cost-efficiencies for their practices."
Citera graduated from St. Ambrose University with a bachelor of arts degree in business administration and has completed executive education courses at Wharton School, Georgetown University and Pepperdine University School of Law. She is also a longtime member of the board of directors for the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago, a non-profit organization that works with elementary and secondary schools to help young people develop critical thinking skills, civic participation and a commitment to the rule of law.
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