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Above the Law Roundtable: Legal Recruiting & Placement

Thursday, July 3, 2008 5:00 PM - By David Lat

Welcome to the second installment of a recurring ATL feature: the Above the Law Roundtable. In each roundtable, we put together a panel of experts to discuss an issue of interest to the ATL community. Our inaugural roundtable, back in April, focused on electronic discovery (a subject that many of you are all too familiar with).

Today we turn to a topic that interests many readers, at least based on the amount of email we receive about it: legal recruiting and placement. Some of the questions we wanted answered:

What advice would you give to lawyers about to go through the job search process?

What are the advantages of working with a recruiter / headhunter, as opposed to just going it alone?

What practice areas are "hot" right now?

What advice would you offer to lawyers who want to become legal recruiters themselves?

To discuss these and other issues, we convened the following panel (pictured below, left to right):

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Eden Mandrell, Regional Practice Manager - Assoc. Group of Major, Lindsey & Africa
Steve H. Pittleman, President of Pittleman & Associates
Linda J. Pittleman, Chairman of Pittleman & Associates
Marina Sirras, President of Marina Sirras & Associates LLC

The conversation will interest anyone who follows trends in legal employment -- a topic of intense focus in these pages, and the reason many of you visit ATL. To download a free transcript of the discussion, just click on the link below.

An Above the Law Roundtable Discussion: Legal Recruiting and Placement [PDF]

[Disclosure: Please note that both thought leaders and paid sponsors contributed to this discussion.]