We are pleased to invite you to a panel and networking reception in Houston on July 31st from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Above the Law Career Center contributor and founder of Career Infusion Coaching LLC, Katie Slater, will moderate a thought-provoking panel discussion on what it takes to be a successful in-house attorney.
Our panelists include:
Beth Walker, VP Business Development at Newhouse + Noblin
Michol Ecklund, Assistant General Counsel – International at Marathon Oil
Bruce Taten, Former General Counsel at Cooper Industries Ltd.
Michelle Grace, Associate General Counsel at Invesco Ltd.
The panel discussion will be followed by a cocktail networking reception. Please RSVP below. We look forward to seeing you in Houston!
Ed. note: The Aspiring Lateral, a new series from Levenfeld Pearlstein, will analyze a variety of issues surrounding lateral moves, drawing on the firm’s experience in the lateral market as well as the individual experiences of LP attorneys. Today’s post is written by Rob Romanoff, the Managing Partner of Levenfeld Pearlstein.
When it comes to the ultimate departure, you can’t take it with you. When it comes to professional departures, however, it’s a different matter entirely. Whether or not you can take it with you — that is, whether your clients will follow you to a new firm — is a very open question indeed, and a critical one in any lateral candidate’s recruitment.
But how much portable business is enough to catch the eye of suitor firms? How can lateral candidates even determine the amount of their portable business? And how do they actually go about moving it? Let’s consider these questions in turn…
As we previously mentioned, Above the Law will be in Seattle tomorrow night. We’re hosting a reception for our readers featuring cocktails, canapés, and a conversation moderated by managing editor David Lat with in-house lawyers:
Christi Muoneke – Deputy General Counsel, DocuSign Inc.
Brad Toney – Senior VP and Assistant General Counsel, Classmates Media Corp. and President, Washington Chapter of ACC
This event will be a great opportunity for attendees to hear from thought leaders, meet members of the Above the Law team, and network with peers. There is no cost to attend. Thanks to our friends at Recommind for their generous sponsorship.
The reception will take place on Wednesday, July 17, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Registration closes tonight, so if you’d like to attend, please click on the link below to request an invitation. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
As we previously mentioned, Above the Law is coming to Seattle. We’ve done events this year in New York, Washington, Houston, San Francisco, and Chicago, and now we’re heading to the Pacific Northwest. (If you’re interested in possibly sponsoring an event, please drop us a line.)
We’re hosting a reception for our readers featuring cocktails, canapés, and a conversation moderated by managing editor David Lat with leading in-house lawyers. This event will be a great opportunity for attendees to hear from thought leaders, meet members of the Above the Law team, and network with peers. There is no cost to attend; thanks to our friends at Recommind for their generous sponsorship.
The reception will take place on Wednesday, July 17, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Please click on the link below to request an invitation. We look forward to seeing you next week.
Ed. note: The Aspiring Lateral, a new series from Levenfeld Pearlstein, will analyze a variety of issues surrounding lateral moves, drawing on the firm’s experience in the lateral market as well as the individual experiences of LP attorneys. Today’s post is written by Peter Donati, the chair of Levenfeld Pearlstein’s Labor & Employment Group and the head of its Compensation Committee.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that lateral moves are all about money. Popular thinking — which may not be far from the truth — holds that law firms, held in collective thrall by the American Lawyer’s profit-per-partner numbers, focus on lateral hiring as the first step in a virtuous cycle that will increase their PPP metric, in turn attract more profitable laterals, and so on and so on. Laterals themselves, meanwhile, are viewed as economic actors lured away from their firms primarily through the prospect of increased, or guaranteed, compensation.
(Given the prominent role that guaranteed compensation is said to have played in the downfall of Dewey, and the pains Weil Gotshal took to point out its relative lack of compensation guarantees when announcing its recent layoffs, this particular carrot may be falling out of fashion. Even Weil conceded, however, that it has compensation guarantees in place for first-year laterals.)
In light of the focus on dollars in connection with lateral moves, it may surprise the reader to hear the head of a compensation committee say that in many cases, lateral candidates do not talk enough about money. To be more specific, lateral candidates often don’t scratch beneath surface questioning about their prospective new firm’s compensation system. If they did, their answers would inform them more deeply not only about their future paychecks, but the character of the firm they are considering….
Few places on God’s green earth are more beautiful than Seattle in July. The weather is perfect, with little rain and with temperatures in the 70s, and the days are long.
So it should come as no surprise that we’re taking the Above the Law roadshow to the Emerald City next week. We’re hosting a reception for our readers on the evening of Wednesday, July 17, starting at 6:30 p.m.
This event will be a great opportunity for attendees to hear from legal leaders, meet members of the Above the Law team, and network with peers. Cocktails and canapés will be provided, and there is no cost to attend. Thanks to our friends at Recommind for their generous sponsorship.
Please click on the link below to RSVP. We look forward to seeing you next week.
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The holiday season is upon us, and yet again, you have no idea what to get for the fickle lawyer in your life. We’re here to help. Even if your bonus check hasn’t arrived yet, any one of the gifts we’ve highlighted here could be a worthy substitute until your employer decides to make it rain.
We’ve got an eclectic selection for you to choose from, so settle in by that stack of documents yet to be reviewed and dig in…
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We are pleased to invite you to a panel and networking reception in Houston on July 31st from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Above the Law Career Center contributor and founder of Career Infusion Coaching LLC, Katie Slater, will moderate a thought-provoking panel discussion on what it takes to be a successful in-house attorney.
