By Janice L. Miller, Esq.
COOPERTITION®
Cooperation Between Competitors
For the Benefit of All
We have been told business is a zero-sum game. For someone to win, someone else must lose. But this often leads to a cutthroat rivalry amongst professionals. Bitter and needlessly acrimonious, it not only hurts competitors, but it also makes things tougher for the end client/customer.
Now, what if there was a better way?
Learn all about the practice of Coopertition®
BY JANICE L. MILLER, Esq.
COOPERTITION®
Cooperation Between Competitors
For the Benefit of All
We have been told business is a zero-sum game. For someone to win, someone else must lose. But this often leads to a cutthroat rivalry amongst professionals. Bitter and needlessly acrimonious, it not only hurts competitors, but it also makes things tougher for the end client/customer.
Now, what if there was a better way?
Learn all about the practice of Coopertition®
Janice L. Miller, Esq.
Janice L. Miller, Esq.
Author
Author
Janice Miller is the managing partner of Miller Haga Law Group, LLP and is a highly-recognized legal expert with more than 25 years of experience as an innovative general counsel. She represents the firm’s clients in business transactions, real estate leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, licensing, hospitality and the emerging legal field of unmanned aerial systems (drones). The firm’s clients have come to rely on Janice’s insightful dispute-resolution strategies as preventive measures to avoid litigation. She is a noted speaker and panelist at conferences relating to location-based entertainment venues, theme park legislation, real estate and leasing, intellectual property and licensing, and drones.
Janice is also an expert in the business strategy of Coopertition (the notion that competitors can work together cooperatively for the benefit of their clients). She serves as a strategic legal partner and business adviser, providing the firm’s clients with pragmatic, cost effective legal and business solutions that minimize risk and maximize profits.
Janice was selected to the Super Lawyers list for Southern California in 2020 and 2021. She was chosen by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of its 2021 Women of Influence; nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Emerging Woman-Owned Business Leader Award and was a 2020 and 2021 finalist for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal Valley Mentors Award. Janice earned her J.D. degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she graduated on the Dean’s List. She also earned her B.A. degree from Temple University, where she graduated magna cum laude. Addition- ally, Janice earned her MBA from the University of Redlands where she graduated, summa cum laude.
Janice and her husband 25 years have two wonderful young adult children. Her son is a Certified Flight Instructor pursuing a career as a commercial airline pilot, and her daughter recently graduated with her B.S. in Athletic Training, Minor in Nutrition and is pursuing her Master’s in Kinesiology with the goal to work in the emerging field of prehabiliation for athletes and performers. Janice enjoys working out, running, spending time with her friends, and a good bottle of wine.
Read What People Are Saying
“Janice Miller’s Coopertition truly captures what it means to work and play well with others. The book provides insightful tips to help any professional excel not just in networking, but in assisting their clients in the process.”
– SOPHIE WATTS, CEO, Eros Innovations
“Janice has taken the ProVisors philosophy of ‘Know. Like. Trust. Refer.’ to a whole new level. The notion of being comfortable working with competitors to benefit your clients is simply BRILLIANT. Everyone should be doing it!”
– MATT TOLEDO, CEO, ProVisors
Whoever thought the ABC’s can be turned into a tried and proven roadmap using cooperation as a benefit to your business? Janice nailed it, and provided tangible takeaways to help you mingle with the competitors in a way to benefit all.”
– JENNIFER ZERLING, MS, CES, CPT “JZ”, FITNESS AND AGE MANAGEMENT EXPERT
“I’m so proud of Janice Staskin Miller of Miller Haga Law Group…. One of our sponsors. Janice’s New Book on business, Rocks!. It is Pithy, Insightful and a great guide book to share with your teams. Small BizCast will feature an interview with Janice about her book in a few weeks. In the meantime… Check it out!”
– Small Bizcast via Facebook
“Coopertition offers sagacious advice and insights based on Miller’s more than 25-year career as a successful attorney for major entertainment and Fortune 100 companies and as founder of her own law firm. Structured in short, easy-to-read chapters, the book expounds on 26 cornerstones of Miller’s “Coopertition” approach, listed from A to Z.”
– The Goddard Company via Patch
