Sam Schultze

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Sam Schultze is the COO of Gittings Global, where he leads operations with a focus on delivering a consistent, high-end client experience across every market. With over 30 years in the photography industry, he brings a strong combination of creative understanding and operational leadership.

He began his career behind the camera and later ran his own successful photography company, giving him firsthand insight into both the craft and the business. Today, Sam focuses on building the systems and structure that support global delivery, aligning teams across markets, and ensuring clients receive consistent, high-quality results wherever they operate.

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Beyond the Headshot: 5 Types of Visual Content Every Law Firm Should Have

A professional headshot is a must-have for any law firm. But in today’s digital landscape, a headshot alone isn’t enough to tell your firm’s story. Law firms are communicating across websites, LinkedIn, social media, newsletters, recruiting platforms, event materials, and more. Each of these channels creates an opportunity to show prospective clients, attorneys, recruits, and […]

The Brand Infrastructure Law Firms Build Too Late

Talk to enough firms about when marketing actually got real investment, and a pattern starts to show up. It rarely came from a plan made ahead of time. It came after something happened that made the need impossible to ignore. A merger exposed how inconsistent the firm’s positioning was across offices. A senior partner retired […]

The Quiet Signals Clients Read Before the Pitch Meeting

By the time a general counsel or procurement team sits down across the table from a firm, they’ve usually already formed an opinion. Not a final one — the pitch still matters — but a working impression built well before anyone walked into the room. Firms tend to focus their preparation on what happens during […]

How Clients Choose Between Firms That Look the Same on Paper

When a general counsel or procurement team is evaluating outside counsel, the credentials are rarely the deciding factor. By the time a firm makes the shortlist, the experience is assumed. The billing rates are negotiated. What happens next is less rational than most firms want to believe. Clients choose based on feel. That’s not a […]

The Handoff: What a Well-Planned Partner Transition Looks Like

Every firm eventually faces the same moment: a partner who built a practice, mentored a generation of associates, and carried relationships that span decades decides it’s time to step back. How a firm handles that moment says more about its culture than almost anything else it does. The Difference Between an Exit and a Transition […]

What Top Associates See Before They Decide to Join Your Firm

The competition for top legal talent is well understood by anyone who has sat on a hiring committee. The best candidates, the ones with options, are making decisions based on signals that go well beyond compensation and practice area. They want to know what a firm actually looks and feels like. Whether the culture matches […]

The Attorney Directory Just Became the Front Door

The attorney bio page used to be a confirmation. Clients landed there after they’d already decided to look at your firm, your headshot was the handshake, not the introduction. That’s no longer reliably true. Ask an AI tool for “top M&A attorneys in Houston” and you get a handful of named attorneys with practice summaries […]

Meet the New Gittings Global

For nearly a century, Gittings Global has done one thing with uncompromising consistency: make the people and organizations who lead their industries look exactly like what they are with the clarity, authority, and presence they’ve earned. That commitment hasn’t wavered once in the last 98 years. But the way the world sees us? That’s evolving. […]

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