The job market in Houston is ready for liftoff. Several of Lateral Link’s top law firm clients are looking for associates with experience in finance, capital markets, energy transactions and patent prosecution. This week we are featuring a corporate position for attorneys with capital markets experience. If you are interested in this Job of the Week or would like information on one of the several other open positions in Texas, contact T.J. Duane, at tjduane@laterallink.com.
Position: Capital Markets Associate
Location: Houston, TX
Description: The Houston office of a prominent law firm is seeking a corporate associate with 2-6 years of sophisticated capital markets work. Strong academic credentials are required.
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, see position #9350 for more information. Not a member? Join Lateral Link to access hundreds of law firm and in-house jobs and to work with a recruiter.
Lateral Link has a unique opportunity for a junior corporate associate looking to go in-house. If you are interested in joining an innovative social media company as their corporate counsel, check out the position below. Job perks include no billable hours and potential hobnobbing with celebrity investors.
Position: Corporate Counsel
Location: California
Description: Our client is seeking to hire a Corporate Counsel with 2-4 years of experience in the corporate department of a top national or international law firm to work closely with and be mentored by Senior Vice President & General Counsel on sophisticated transactional matters. Candidates must have 2-4 years of relevant large firm experience in M&A (candidates with a finance or SEC compliance focus to their practice will not be considered), strong drafting skills, and a law degree from a top accredited law school with superior academic credentials.
If you are currently a Lateral Link member, please see position #9407. 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. Employer clients please contact Julie Locke, Director at Lateral Link, at jlocke@laterallink.com for more information on how Lateral Link can assist with your organization with it’s hiring needs.
Today’s Job of the Week is for a NY-trained corporate associate who is looking to relocate to a well-respected and highly selective Los Angeles-based firm. Lateral Link has a solid relationship with this top Chambers-ranked firm, and has recently placed an associate in its L.A. office. Here is your chance to improve your personal life without sacrificing the prestige from working at Worldwide Plaza. Remember, you’ll receive a $10,000 signing bonus when you use Lateral Link to relocate you to a better place.
Position: Corporate Associate
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Our client is seeking a mid-level corporate associate with 3-5 years experience. Ideal candidates are those currently working for firms such as Wachtell and Cravath.
This opportunity is brought to you by Lateral Link Director Scott Morris. Scott is a University of Chicago Law School graduate and former litigation associate at Latham & Watkins in San Diego. To work with Scott and to apply to this opportunity or other opportunities in California, please register at www.laterallink.com and select him as your preferred recruiter. You can also reach out to him directly via email at smorris@laterallink.com. If you already are a Lateral Link member, see position #8918, or contact your recruiter for more details.
Lateral Link has a unique in-house position with an up-and-coming and energetic information technology company located in the Midwest. This company is looking for transactional attorneys with top-notch (academic and firm) credentials and leadership potential to join their growing legal team. If you have 5+ years corporate transactional experience and are looking to make the move in-house, this is your chance.
Description of Position: This technology company is seeking to hire an Associate General Counsel with 5+ years of transactional experience. Candidates must have excellent academic credentials (top law school, top grades). Experience in mortgage lending, title insurance, banking, international law and/or real estate is a plus.
Location: A major city located in one of the “Great Lakes states.”
This opportunity is brought to you by Lateral Link Director Lisa Forbes. To work with Lisa and to apply to this opportunity or other opportunities in Chicago, 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 #9257, or contact your recruiter for more details.
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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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The job market in Houston is ready for liftoff. Several of Lateral Link’s top law firm clients are looking for associates with experience in finance, capital markets, energy transactions and patent prosecution. This week we are featuring a corporate position for attorneys with capital markets experience. If you are interested in this Job of the Week or would like information on one of the several other open positions in Texas, contact T.J. Duane, at tjduane@laterallink.com.
