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Margaret H. Nicholls is the Chief Marketing and Practice Management Officer at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, a premier global law firm. Margaret’s role includes practice management (business specialists embedded in practice and industry groups), client relationship management, business development, marketing services (including events, marketing technology, creative), alumni programming, communications, and the firm’s legal and business research function. Based in New York, Margaret oversees a global team of more than 70 professionals. Before joining Debevoise, Margaret served as a Director of Business Development at Simpson Thacher and, prior to that, practiced as a capital markets attorney at the same firm. Earlier in her career, Margaret was a management consultant with both Booz Allen Hamilton in the U.S. and PwC Consulting in Australia. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.