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Career Center: Job Hunting Tips for the Holiday Season

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Most of us correlate this time of year with holiday cheer, happiness, and general festivity. However, if you find yourself looking for a job in December, it can be a little disheartening. Employers, if they are not taking time off, focus their efforts on end of the year wrap-up. Although hiring may seem slow during the holiday season, don’t consider it a total loss.

Check out these holiday job-hunting tips from Lateral Link that will be sure to help you keep your chin up, and your hope of landing a new job alive….

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Thank You to This Week’s Advertisers on Above the Law

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With the holiday season in full swing, we’d like to take a moment to thank our wonderful advertisers here at Above the Law:

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, please download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks, and Happy Holidays!

Career Center: Acing Your Law Firm Interview

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Lateral interview season is about to kick off. You’ll likely see several law firm vacancies pop up early in the new year as firms struggle to find replacements for attorneys who jump ship after receiving their year end bonus.

In preparation for the upcoming interview season, the recruiters at Lateral Link have compiled a list of the top five tips to help you ace your next law firm interview.

1. Be prepared: Preparation is key. Do not try and “swing it” and go to an interview unprepared. Understand what is at stake when you go into an interview — getting hired. Back in the good ole days, your résumé alone was sufficient to get you a job. The interview process was merely a formality and a way for firms to screen out people who were completely socially inept. Today, the résumé is only one component of your candidacy….

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Job of the Week: Holiday Shopping for a New Gig?

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Give yourself the gift that will keep on giving — a new job! The recruiters at Lateral Link have an amazing in-house opportunity at a well-established bank, based in Minnesota. Check out the Job of the Week below for more details.

Position: Senior Legal Counsel (Banking)

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Description: Lateral Link’s client is hiring an attorney with 5+ years of banking experience in-house and/or with a law firm. This person would be responsible for providing legal representation and support for a variety of legal and/or compliance-related topics as they pertain to the retail banking business. Experience with retail banking, deposits, and lending is required along with a solid grasp on regulatory compliance matters and laws and rules that affect consumer/retail banking activities.

For more details, please contact Katy Lewis, at klewis@laterallink.com, or see position #10648 on the Lateral Link website. If you are not currently a Lateral Link member, you can sign up for free at www.laterallink.com. Lateral Link offers Members a $1000 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: O Come All Ye Rainmakers – Tips for Networking During the Holidays

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With the holiday season in full swing, ‘tis the season for parties. In today’s Career Center post, the recruiters at Lateral Link provide you with tips on how to work a room and expand your network while mingling with co-workers, family, and friends.

1. First, research the guest list. Come up with a list of people attending the party you want to meet and talking points for each of them.

2. Develop and memorize a short personal introduction (your elevator pitch) containing information on who you are, what you do, and why you are here.

Keep reading for more valuable tips to use this holiday season….

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Thank You Very Much to This Week’s Advertisers

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We’d like to take a moment to thank our wonderful advertisers here at Above the Law:

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, please download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

Career Center: Three Ways the Holidays Can Boost Your Résumé

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For most of us, the holidays are synonymous with family, fun, and fruitcake. Work, at least for a few days, drops off our radar. However, the down time received during the holidays is the perfect time to break out the old résumé and, in fact, improve it. Whether or not you are looking for a new job, keeping your résumé current will help you avoid headaches in the coming months should you decide to make a move.

Here are three ways the holidays can help update your résumé, provided by the recruiters at Lateral Link….

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Job of the Week: All I Want for Christmas… Is an In-House Job

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If you are an IP attorney who is looking for an in-house gig, Christmas may come early for you this year. This week’s Job of the Week is an excellent opportunity for an IP attorney to work in-house for a well-established, public company with annual sales over $5 billion! Lateral Link has been retained to find a Patent Prosecution Counsel for a Fortune 500 company’s Palo Alto office. Check out the details below.

Position: Patent Prosecution Counsel

Description of Position: The Patent Prosecution Counsel will assist with the completion of invention disclosures, work with the technical team to draft and file patent applications, and manage outside counsel. Qualifications: JD and license to practice in at least one state; registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science; experience with consumer electronic devices; experience in U.S. and foreign patent preparation and prosecution at a law firm and/or in-house.

Location: Palo Alto, California

This opportunity is brought to you by Lateral Link’s In-House Director Diana Rubin. To work with Diana and to apply to this opportunity or other in-house opportunities, please register at www.laterallink.com. You can also reach out to her directly via email at drubin@laterallink.com. If you already are a Lateral Link member, see position position #10658, or contact your recruiter for more details.

Career Center: Tips for Selecting a Legal Recruiter

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The lateral hiring market has improved substantially over the past year. With that improvement, associates are receiving a greater number of cold-calls from recruiters. For many junior associates, these calls are a new phenomenon. Your choice of a recruiter — and the way you manage the process — will have a profound impact on your short-term and long-term opportunities.

There are many good recruiters and many benefits to using a good one. However, not all recruiters are created equal. Jordan Abshire, legal recruiter and Managing Director at Lateral Link, offers some great pointers on handling the cold-calls and selecting a good recruiter, as well as some background information on the recruiting process….

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A Note to Our Readers About Comments

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Sometimes silence is golden.

The executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson — who once worked as a legal journalist, for Steve Brill at the American Lawyer — recently issued A Note to Our Readers About Comments, in which she explained various changes to the Times’s commenting system. We thought we’d follow in the Gray Lady’s footsteps and announce a tweak of our own to the Above the Law comments.

Comments and online anonymity are hot topics right now, both here and abroad (e.g., India). Writer Katie Roiphe just mused about the angry anonymous commenter. Privacy lawyer Christopher Wolf recently argued, in the New York Times, that websites should “consider requiring either the use of real names (or registration with the online service) in circumstances, such as the comments section for news articles, where the benefits of anonymous posting are outweighed by the need for greater online civility.” Many Times readers disagreed, defending the value and importance of anonymous speech online.

In light of these conflicting concerns — civility, privacy, free expression — let’s turn our attention to the ATL comments….

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A Great, Big Thanks to This Week’s Advertisers

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We’d like to take a moment to thank our wonderful advertisers here at Above the Law:

If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, please download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks!

Career Center: 2011 In-House Salaries Are On The Upswing

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While practically every attorney is familiar with the market rate for Biglaw salaries, not as much is known about salaries for in-house lawyers. Unlike Biglaw’s lockstep salaries, in-house salaries vary widely depending on a broad range of factors such as industry, size of legal department, years of experience, etc. Additionally, since in-house salaries are often negotiable, in-house attorneys tend to avoid discussing their individualized pay with one another.

ALM Legal Intelligence has helped to demystify in-house salaries through its 2011 Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey. This comprehensive survey analyzed compensation data from 4,951 lawyers employed at 225 corporate law departments. The 2011 median salaries for various management and non-management law department positions are reported in the tables after the jump, along with their changes from 2010….

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