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Audrey H. Rubin
Rubin Solutions

Chicago, IL
847-542-2211 (firm)
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Audrey H. Rubin, founder of Rubin Solutions, designs and implements strategic business processes that improve the financial performance and operations of professional services firms. Whether it’s a firm focused on law, accounting or architecture, she creates customized plans that turn inefficiencies into income in a matter of days and free partners and executives to focus on service and growth.

As a seasoned Chief Operating Officer for large and small law firms and significant experience as General Counsel for two global companies, she has been on both sides of the business. Rubin understands how front and backend processes can be streamlined and redesigned to build the bottom line and secure a firm’s future growth. With her ability to reduce expenses, improve profits and collections, increase efficiencies, motivate personnel and extract additional value from existing client relationships, she gives firms a competitive edge and enhanced stability during precarious economic times.

In addition to growing established practices, Rubin sets new businesses on the path to profitability. For firms seeking to expand through mergers, she conducts due diligence and instills operational and financial discipline to help firms maximize the marriage. She is also a speaker and columnist. View her most recent article here.

Prior to her role as a COO for the large Chicago firm Wildman Harrold Allen and Dixon, and the boutique firm Butler Rubin Saltarelli and Boyd, she was an Officer of Legal and Human Resources for two global companies (Grant Thornton and Apollo Travel Services), and before that, a business lawyer in private practice. She has also served as a board member of several domestic and international businesses and not-for-profits. A full Curriculum Vitae for Ms. Rubin is available..

Rubin has served as a board member of the Association of Yale Alumni and is President of the Yale Club of Chicago. She has also been on the national board of the Sapphire Society. She received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law where she was on the Dean’s List. She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. and was a Yale National Scholar. She has received certification as a mediator/arbitrator by De Paul University School of Law. She was certified in Business for Executives at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

About Rubin Solutions

Rubin Solutions provides project and ongoing Chief Operating Officer services to your firm. We bring you the best solutions for your particular business. And we save you money by performing administrative tasks so that you can go back to servicing your clients and developing your business.

Existing firms use us to bring business and financial measurements and discipline to their systems. Start-up firms use us to develop their initial business plans and establish their first offices.

We develop and track your progress against budgets. We improve collections. We shorten your WIP. We improve your realization. We perform independent and thorough due diligence on lateral prospects. We analyze departmental profitability and coach your leaders on how to remove financially draining practices in the best way. We reduce staff, insurance, and benefits costs. We implement client intake, storage, conflicts, and evaluation systems. We analyze and engineer compensation systems. We improve your banking relationships and borrowing terms. We renegotiate your lease, and run your renovations and moves.

Rubin Solutions has the experience and relationships to deliver bottom-line results. We will quickly improve your profits by significant amounts.

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Fees are set in collaboration with clients. They vary depending on scope and length of project. Additionally, some firms choose to hire Rubin Solutions on a retainer basis so that they have Chief Operating Officer expertise continuously available to them. Rubin Solutions can be an outsourced on-demand Chief Operating Officer. We will gladly meet with you at no charge to discuss your needs and goals and work out mutually agreeable terms of engagement.

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