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Career Center: Top 5 Tips for Escaping From the Office During the Holidays

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Now that Thanksgiving is almost upon us, some of you may already be thinking ahead to the winter holiday season. That’s precisely what you should be doing if you want to take more time off than just your firm’s designated holiday days. For some associates, the holidays are a good time to use your vacation days, but you will need to plan ahead if you want your vacation to be a real break from work.

The Career Center, brought to you by Lateral Link, has compiled a list of the top five tips to help you have a happy holiday season away from the office….

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Job of the Week: An Opportunity to be Thankful For…

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Yesterday, we posted The Top 4 Reasons To Be Thankful For Your Biglaw Job This Thanksgiving. Today, we are giving you one more reason to celebrate Thanksgiving — a great job opportunity at one of Chicago’s premier law firms. This Job of the Week is brought to you by Lateral Link, which has an inside track with this firm — one of their recruiters, Katy Lewis, recently placed two transactional associates in this office.

Position: Corporate Associate

Location: Chicago, IL

Bonus: This position qualifies for Lateral Link’s $10,000 placement bonus.

Description: An outgoing and dynamic group of a top Am Law 100 Chicago law firm is looking for an associate with and 2-4 years (class of 2007 – 2010) of Capital Markets experience to work with clients in a sub-set of their corporate group. Personality, top academics credentials, and large law firm experience is required. The firm is open to people interested in relocating to Chicago from other major markets.

For more details, please see position #9662 on the Lateral Link website or contact Katy Lewis, at klewis@laterallink.com. If you are not currently a Lateral Link member, you can sign up for free at www.laterallink.com. Lateral Link offers Members a $1,000 referral fee for each attorney referred to us who is not already part of the Lateral Link network, and who subsequently obtains a position through Lateral Link.

Career Center: Top 4 Reasons to Be Thankful for Your Biglaw Job This Thanksgiving

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With Thanksgiving just a week away, turkey may already be on your mind. But hopefully so are family, friends, and a time to reflect on what you are thankful for this year. If you’re having trouble with that last part, the Career Center has put together a list of the top 4 reasons Biglaw associates can be thankful for their jobs this holiday season.

1. Next up, bonus season. Most of you have actually been feeling quite optimistic that bonuses will be bigger than last year’s combined year-end bonus plus spring bonus. Of course, we’ll have to wait until Cravath makes the first move to see whether there’s any truth to those predictions, but at least you know there will be bonuses to be had.

So what else made the list?

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Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – Smaller Legal Markets (Part 2)

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We hope you’ve enjoyed following the Career Center’s Top Partners series through which we’ve recognized Biglaw partners from around the country who exemplify what it means to be an exceptional partner who associates are actually happy to work for. Thanks to all the readers who took the time to submit such glowing nominations and give some well-deserved recognition to the 60 partners highlighted in this series.

Today we conclude with the best partners in the smaller legal markets of Chicago, Dallas, and London. While the markets in which they work may be smaller, their firms are some of the biggest names in Biglaw: Winston & Strawn, Sidley Austin, Katten Muchin, K&L Gates, SNR Denton, and Latham & Watkins.

Let’s see who the final six partners are….

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Kinney Recruiting is Participating In Asia Career Development Seminar this Thursday at NYU – Come See Speaker Evan Jowers

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Ed. note: This post is authored by Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney of Kinney Recruiting, sponsor of the Asia Chronicles. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past five years. You can reach them by email: asia@kinneyrecruiting.com

Come join us this Thursday evening at NYU for an Asia career development seminar put on by the Asian Practice Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association. In the past, biglaw associates have found this type of event to be of great help when considering a move to Asia. Here is some basic info on the event:

Career Development in the Legal and Finance Fields
7:00PM – 9:00PM, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011
New York University
Room 212, Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street

Co-Organizers:
*Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association
*US China Legal Exchange Foundation
*Chinese Public Company Advisory Committee of UCCA
*Culture and Career Club
*Asian Financial Society

Interested in Asia or an Asia-focused legal or finance career? Want to find an Asian practice related job or grow your Asian practice? Curious about how to build your network and develop more career opportunities? Come join us at our career development panel with four experienced professionals in the legal and finance fields!

Topics:
1. The Asian job market for legal and financial professionals
2. Insiders’ tips on qualities that law firms and financial institutions look for in candidates
3. Insights from practitioners about how to grow your Asian practice
4. Professionals’ views on how to network and find more career opportunities in the legal
and financial industries

Panelists:
*Zhihui Julie Guo, Attorney from NY office of a top US law firm
*Alex Hao, Partner from NY office of a top Chinese law firm
*Kevin Pollack (Former lawyer and now fund manager)
*Evan P. Jowers (Head of Asia recruiting at Kinney Recruiting)

When:
7 pm, Thursday, November 17, 2011

Where:
New York University
Room 212, Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street

Job of the Week: Project Finance in Washington, D.C.

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Today’s Job of the Week offers a terrific opportunity for a stellar project finance attorney who wants more partner contact, more client contact, and who can handle being the right-hand person to a VIP partner. Lateral Link is working exclusively with one of the nation’s strongest project finance teams who is looking to hire a mid-level associate who will play a key role in the expansion of an already successful practice. This opportunity offers exceptional prospects for career advancement. If you want to make your mark in the project finance arena, this could be the opportunity for you. Don’t forget — when Lateral Link recruiters find you a new Biglaw job, you’ll receive a $10,000 signing bonus.

Position: Project Finance Associate

Requirements: Ideal candidates will be in the graduating class of 2006, 2007, or 2008, have excellent academics, and experience with a recognized project finance practice (ideally Chambers-rated). Candidates interested in relocating are encouraged to apply.

Location: Washington, D.C.

To learn more about this position, contact Amy Savage, Lateral Link Director and former Biglaw attorney, at asavage@laterallink.com or 202.470.0661.

Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – Smaller Legal Markets (Part 1)

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After making our way across the country, which included stops in New York, Washington, D.C., and California, the final leg of this Career Center series on the Top Partners to Work For will cover some of the smaller legal markets.

Today we head back to the east coast to focus on Boston’s best Biglaw partners who work at the following top firms: Foley Hoag, Proskauer Rose, Skadden, Mintz Levin, Cooley, Greenberg Traurig, and Ropes & Gray.

Let’s see which partners made the cut….

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Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – California (Part 2)

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Today we wrap up coverage of the top California partners to work for, as selected by our readers (see Part 1 here).

These six partners have diverse practices that range from real estate, to labor and employment, to IP, and work at some of the nation’s finest firms: Cooley, DLA Piper, Sheppard Mullin, Jones Day, Bingham McCutchen, and Best Best & Krieger.

Let’s find out why associates are thrilled to be working for these partners….

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