Headhunters / Recruiters
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Job of the Week: Seasoned Professionals Wanted for Partner Recruiting Practice
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Biglaw, Election 2012, Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Politics
House Rules: Happy Halloween
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Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves, Lawyers, NALP
ATL Career Center Launches Resource for Revived Lateral Market
The ATL Career Center continues to grow and now features a dedicated section for Practicing Lawyers. Be sure to check it out!
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Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
House Rules: Finding Mary Poppins
What can a talented recruiter do for your job search? A lot, explains in-house columnist David Mowry. -
Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
Inside Straight: Landing An In-House Job
What's the best way to land an in-house job? Here are some practical tips from in-house columnist Mark Herrmann. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues
Dewey Plan To Give Retired Partners a Seat at the Bankruptcy Table?
What's the latest news in the Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy? -
Biglaw, Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues
Inside Straight: On Crossing The In-House Rubicon And Law Firm Stupidity
Why can't a senior in-house lawyer go back to being a Biglaw partner if he wants to? And what are some mistakes that law firms make in their lateral partner hiring? -
Biglaw, China, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches, John Edwards, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Private Equity, Religion, Trials
Morning Docket: 05.15.12
* Dewey need to send them a wedding present? Because to be honest, we really can’t afford one. Fifty of the firm’s European lawyers jumped ship to tie the knot with Greenberg Traurig in Poland. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “I don’t think there’s enough space in the legal market to absorb all the Dewey lawyers that aren’t prepackaged in a group.” When Dewey get on the unemployment line in New York City? [New York Law Journal]
* Ropes & Gray is expanding its Chinese private equity practice with plans to double its Asian-based lawyers by the end of the year. For now, the firm’s just poaching partners from Norton Rose and Paul Weiss. [Bloomberg]
* John Edwards’s legal team began his defense, and they still don’t know if he’ll be taking the stand. Not to worry, because he’ll be torturing his daughter, Cate Edwards, instead. [CNN]
* Remember the Catholic school that fired someone for getting IVF? They’re asserting the “ministerial exception” against Emily Herx — an unordained woman who doesn’t teach religion. [Washington Post]
* Apparently this only matters when top-tier schools do it, but like UC Hastings, George Washington Law will be reducing its class size in the hope of keeping new student enrollment below 450. [National Law Journal]
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Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Paralegals, Summer Associates
NALP 2012: Good News, We've Probably Hit the Bottom
Elie Mystal is at the 2012 National Association of Law Placement conference. Every year, NALP tells conference attendees the trends in legal hiring. This year, the numbers are worse than ever! And that’s the good news.... -
Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
House Rules: The Devil You Don’t Know…
David Mowry recently received a cold call from a recruiter. Seemed like a great opportunity on its face. But, as one of his mentors has sagely stated, the devil you don’t know can be much worse than the devil you do know.... -
Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Staff Layoffs
Dewey Have Comment on Recent Developments?Yes -- Firm Is Cutting 5 to 6 Percent of Personnel
The rumor mill has been churning nonstop over the past week about Dewey & LeBoeuf. In our recent stories about the firm, we’ve discussed reports of financial difficulties, partner departures, and possible layoffs of lawyers and staff. Firm management has been fairly tight-lipped -- until now. What did firm chairman Steven Davis have to say? -
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Career Center: Tips for Selecting a Legal Recruiter
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 […] -
Associate Advice, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches, Small Law Firms
Size Matters: Why Some Small Firms And Small-Firm Lawyers Need Matchmakers
There is a neighborhood in Chicago that smells like chocolate. The reason is due to Blommer Chocolate Company’s Chicago factory. I have never been inside, but according to a documentary I once saw regarding chocolate factories, inside there is a chocolate river, Oompa Loompas, and an eccentric chocolatier. Much to my surprise, there was an […]
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Biglaw, Headhunters / Recruiters, Law Firm Mergers, Lawsuit of the Day, McKee Nelson, Money
Lawsuit of the Day: Bingham Must Pay Seven-Figure Sum to Legal Recruiter
Legal recruiters find work for lawyers — and sometimes they create work for them. We previously covered, for example, the litigation between mega-recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa and one of its former employees, Sharon Mahn. Sometimes recruiters go after each other, and sometimes they go after law firms — firms that don’t pay them the […] -
Biglaw, Gender, Headhunters / Recruiters, In-House Counsel, Women's Issues
Inside Straight: Moving Laterally
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Inside Straight, Above the Law’s column for in-house counsel, written by Mark Herrmann. I spoke on a panel with two other in-house lawyers at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law a little while ago, and I learned two interesting things about lateral mobility. I’m not one […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, Headhunters / Recruiters, Money, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Don't Ask Why, Just Ask How Much
I can’t say with any reasonable certainty what has triggered the spring bonus phenomenon. The lateral law firm market is heating up, but it’s not sizzling by recruitment standards. — Katherine Frink-Hamlett, president and CEO of Frink-Hamlett Legal Solutions, a legal recruiting firm, commenting to The Careerist on spring bonuses. -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lawsuit of the Day, S.D.N.Y.
Major Lindsey Drops RICO Action Against Ex-Employee
Call it RICO not so suave. One of the nation’s biggest legal headhunting firms, Major, Lindsey & Africa, is withdrawing its RICO action against a former employee — after a federal judge offered a somewhat snarky assessment of the merits of MLA’s case. As reported by Leigh Jones over at the National Law Journal, on […] -
Headhunters / Recruiters, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Major Lindsey Files RICO Action Against Former Employee
The world of legal recruiting is a bit like Glengarry Glen Ross. Like the real estate agents of Glengarry, legal recruiters work mainly on commission, and they get paid when they close deals. Instead of getting paid for selling parcels of land, though, headhunters get paid when they find lawyers — people like you — […] -
Contract Attorneys, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches
Are Contract Attorneys Getting Blacklisted?
During this recession, there have been a lot of would-be Biglaw associates that have been forced into taking temporary contract work. People have to do what they can to pay the bills. But in so doing, are they harming their chances of ever getting a full-time job? One recruiting firm thinks they are. A tipster […] -
Asia Chronicles, Biglaw, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches
The Asia Chronicles: A Look at Current Hiring Trends
[Disclosure: This post is authored not by the Asia Corporate Lawyers, but by the Asia Recruiting Team at Kinney Recruiting — sponsor of the Asia Chronicles, and an ATL advertiser. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past two years. You can reach them […]