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.
The Lone Star State is in need of some top corporate talent! If you have experience in general corporate work (M&A, securities, and finance), Lateral Link’s Texas Team has several jobs for you at some of the top firms in Dallas and Houston. Today’s Job of the Week, brought to you by Lateral Link, presents a great opportunity for a corporate associate to move to one of Texas’s premier firms.
Position: Corporate Associate
Description: A prominent Texas firm is seeking corporate associates with 4-8 years of experience in M&A, private equity, and securities. Excellent academics required.
Location: Dallas, Texas
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #9665. Not a member? Sign up for free at www.laterallink.com to access hundreds of law firm and in-house jobs, and to work with a recruiter in your market.
To learn more about the Texas legal industry, contact our any of our Texas recruiters.
Lateral Link is working on an exclusive Associate General Counsel search for one of its top corporate clients in New York. Lateral Link’s recruiters placed several candidates in-house in the last few months, and they expect corporate counsel hiring to continue to increase in 2012. Click here to read Lateral Link’s predictions on which in-house practice areas will continue to grow. If you’re ready to make a move in-house, check out the Job of the Week below!
Position: Associate General Counsel
Location: New York, NY
Description: One of the largest corporate loan asset management firms globally is seeking a full-time attorney to join its in-house legal department. This is a high-level position located in New York City that will provide both interesting and challenging legal and compliance work, and the opportunity to interact on a regular basis with senior management, including the Chief Executive Officer. The successful candidate will have 3-8 years of legal experience (prior in-house experience preferred, but not required), including either experience with public company filings and a working knowledge of the Exchange Act, investment management/Advisers Act experience, or experience working with CLOs.
This opportunity is brought to you by Lateral Link Director Lisa Forbes. To work with Lisa and to apply to this opportunity, please register for Lateral Link at www.laterallink.com and select her as your preferred recruiter. You can also reach out to her directly via email at lforbes@laterallink.com. If you already are a Lateral Link member, see position position #10280 or contact your recruiter for more details.
Today’s Job of the Week is for Biglaw-trained corporate associates who are looking to fly south for the winter. Lateral Link’s recruiters have a great opportunity for Spanish speaking corporate and/or finance associates who are interested in escaping the sleet, slush, and snow that plagued Chicago, New York, and D.C. last year. Remember, you’ll receive a $10,000 signing bonus when you use Lateral Link to relocate you to a warmer place.
Position: Corporate Associate
Location: Miami, Florida
Description: One of the world’s largest firms is looking to hire corporate associates with 3-5 years of experience in project finance and/or capital markets and securities. Candidates must be fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese, as their work will include Latin American transactions. Ideal candidates should come from Biglaw firms in major markets (New York, Chicago, D.C., and LA). An excellent academic record is required. Florida Bar admission is not required to apply for this position.
This opportunity is brought to you by Lateral Link Director Scott Hodes. Scott is a University of Florida Levin College of Law graduate and former law firm partner who oversees attorney placements and client services in Florida, Atlanta, and other markets in the Southeast. To work with Scott and to apply to this opportunity or other opportunities in his territory, please register at www.laterallink.com and select him as your preferred recruiter. You can also reach out to him directly via email at shodes@laterallink.com. If you already are a Lateral Link member, see position #10275, or contact your recruiter for more details.
If you are a litigator in Chicago who enjoys the sophisticated practice of a global law firm, but who is interested in working in a smaller office setting, then the latest Job of the Week, brought to you by Lateral Link, is for you. Remember, when Lateral Link recruiters find you a new Biglaw job, you’ll receive a $10,000 signing bonus.
Position: Litigation Associate
Description: The Chicago office of a prestigious litigation powerhouse is seeking litigation associates with 1-4 years of litigation experience. Outstanding academics and large law firm experience required.
Location: Chicago, IL
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #10215. Not a member? Sign up for free at www.laterallink.com to access hundreds of law firm and in-house jobs, and to work with a recruiter in your market.
To learn more about the Chicago legal industry, contact our any of our Chicago recruiters.
The responses from this week’s Career Center Survey on Biglaw bonus predictions suggest that many of you are optimistic about the potential for bigger year-end bonuses. We hope you are right… but do you really want to put all of your eggs in one basket? Keep your options open by becoming a Lateral Link member and receiving daily updates on new job openings. When Lateral Link recruiters find you a new Biglaw job, you’ll receive a $10,000 signing bonus.
Ready to get started? Check out today’s Job of the Week below, which is one of over 1,000 active openings available through Lateral Link.
Position: IP Litigation Associate
Description: The Dallas office of a prestigious international law firm is seeking a patent litigation associate with 3-6 years of IP experience and a background in electrical engineering, computer science, or physics. Stellar academics required.
Location: Dallas, TX
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #10114. Not a member? Sign up for free at www.laterallink.com to access hundreds of law firm and in-house jobs, and to work with a recruiter in your market.
To learn more about the Texas legal industry, contact Sara Gail, Lateral Link’s newest Associate Director in Texas, at sgail@laterallink.com. Prior to joining Lateral Link, Sara worked as an associate in the White Collar, Antitrust, and Securities Litigation group at Haynes and Boone LLP, and as an associate at Cooper & Scully, P.C. Sara holds a J.D., cum laude, from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.
Start spreading the news, because New York firms are hiring finance attorneys. And continuing on with the words of Frank Sinatra, “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere.” Do you have what it takes to make it as an NYC Biglaw associate? If you’re a finance attorney, check out the Job of the Week below.
Current New York attorneys who are ready to leave the “city that never sleeps” behind should check out Lateral Link’s hundreds of other opportunities located outside of the Big Apple.
Position: Project Finance Associate
Location: New York City
Description: One of the world’s largest law firms is hiring corporate attorneys with 3-6 years of experience representing lenders and sponsors in project finance transactions. A top academic record is required.
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #8812. Not a member? Contact NY Lateral Link Directors, Rana Draganja and Sandeep Rao, at rdraganja@laterallink.com or srao@laterallink.com for more information on this position. If you are a Columbia Law alum, you can connect with Rana and Sandeep at the upcoming Columbia Law alumni happy hour on October 5, 2011.
While the rest of the country is in a job slump, the opportunities just keep on coming for IP attorneys. With an overabundance of IP legal work and a shortage of qualified IP attorneys, law firms are ready to roll out the red carpet for attorneys with the right IP experience. This week’s Job of the Week presents an opportunity for a mid-level IP associate to work at a top firm in LA. The recruiters at Lateral Link have over 50 additional IP opportunities at Am Law 200 firms across the nation. If you are an IP attorney make sure to look around and see what other opportunities are out there. After all, you’re in high demand!
Position: IP Litigation Associate
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: One of Lateral Link’s top-tier Am Law clients is urgently looking to hire an IP associate with 3-5 years of patent litigation experience. This is a great opportunity for an associate who wants to hit the ground running and advance quickly within a successful practice group in a city that has consistently great weather! The ideal candidate will have a degree in electrical engineering or computer science and a strong law school academic record.
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #8192. Not a member? Contact Julie Locke, California Director at Lateral Link (and former Biglaw IP attorney), at jlocke@laterallink.com for more information on this position, as well as other law firm and in-house positions in the California region.
So steer clear of apple juice, cantaloupe, and ground turkey, and put your lawyering skills to good use to help keep our food supply safe. Lateral Link’s client, a global food products and services company located in Minnesota, is seeking to hire a food law attorney with regulatory experience. Check out the Job of the Week below for details.
Position: Food Law Attorney
Description: Major international food services and food products company is hiring a food law attorney with 5+ years of regulatory experience (either in-house or at a law firm). The ideal candidate will have experience with the FDA and USDA, and professional contacts at the FDA and/or the USDA, as well. The company will pay to relocate candidates to Minnesota (attorneys can waive into Minnesota bar after 5 years of practicing).
Location: Minneapolis, MN
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #9963. Not a member? Contact Katy Lewis, Chicago Director at Lateral Link, at klewis@laterallink.com for more information on this position, as well as other law firm and in-house positions in the Chicago region.
Calling all IP attorneys with technical backgrounds to the District. Today’s Job of the Week brought to you by Lateral Link, offers a great opportunity for junior IP associates to join a top-ranked intellectual property practice of a prominent international law firm. Rap skills not required.
Position: IP Litigation Associate
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: An elite law firm is growing its top Chambers-ranked ITC/IP litigation practice. The firm is especially known for its trial work and consists of some of the most well-known and accomplished litigators in the legal industry. Candidates should have 1-4 years of IP experience, superior academic credentials, and Biglaw firm experience. A background in chemistry or electrical engineering is required.
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #9889. Not a member? Contact Jordan Abshire, Lateral Link Director, at jabshire@laterallink.com for more information on this position, as well as other law firm and in-house positions in the Washington, D.C. region.
Not a Lateral Link member, but want details on this or hundreds of other openings? Register for free at www.laterallink.com to work with an attorney recruiter who is an expert in your market.
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We currently have a number of active openings for associate roles at US and UK firms in HK / China, Singapore and two new in-house openings. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at asia@kinneyrecruiting.com in order to get details of current openings in Asia, as well as to discuss the Asia markets in general and what we expect for openings later this year. Our Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney will be in Beijing the week of March 25 and Evan Jowers will be in Hong Kong the week of April 1, if you would like to meet them in person.
The US associate openings we have in law firms are in the usual areas of M&A, cap markets, FCPA / white collar litigation, finance, and project finance. The most urgent of our top tier (top 15 US or magic circle) law firm openings in Asia (among many other firm openings that we have in Asia) are as follows:
• 2nd to 5th year mandarin fluent M&A associates needed in Beijing and Hong Kong at several firms;
• Korean fluent 2nd to 4th year cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 5th year Japanese fluent M&A associates needed in Tokyo;
• 4th to 6th year mandarin fluent cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 4th year M&A / cap markets mix associate needed in Singapore.
The last time I flapped my wings your way, I tried to make at least enough noise about your mobile phone to make you more than a little bit uncomfortable. I hope I did. If enough of us become anxious enough about the known and unknown unknowns and knowns in our mobile phones, then we can start making wise decisions about how to manage that information and its resultant investigations.
Today, I’d like to put a finer point on the last installment’s topic by asking a question that seemed to catch most attendees off-guard at a conference panel that I moderated last week: is there discoverable personal information in a mobile app? Our panelists’ answer was a uniform “yes” with one stating that, if he had to choose only one type of data that he could discover from a mobile phone, he’d choose app data. Why? Because there’s simply so much of it and because almost all of it is objective – not just user-created like an email – but machine-tracked like GPS, usage duration, log in and log out times, browsed web addresses, browsed actual addresses. Also, most of us seem to have the idea that data doesn’t actually “stick” to our mobile devices the way it “sticks” to our hard drives. Maybe there’s a disconnect based on the fact that our phones are mobile so we assume the data is mobile to?
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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. 
