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How fundamental changes in the legal industry are affecting student recruitment
November 13, 2012 ~ San Francisco, CA
Featuring key contributions and candid viewpoints from:
♦ Bruce MacEwen, President, Adam Smith, Esq. LLC and President JD Match
♦ Jim Leipold, Executive Director, NALP
♦ Ralph Baxter, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
♦ Paul F. Campos, Author, Journalist and Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
♦ Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean, UC Hastings
♦ Bill Henderson, Professor of Law, Indiana/Maurer Law School
♦ Leigh P. Ryan, Hiring Partner, Paul Hastings LLP
♦ Jon C. Avina, Hiring Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
♦ Michael Gilligan, Hiring Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
♦ Terry Galligan, Assistant Dean of Career Development, Berkeley School of Law, UC-Berkeley
♦ Susan C. Robinson, Associate Dean for Career Services, Stanford Law School
♦ Sari Zimmerman, Assistant Dean, Office of Career & Professional Development, UC Hastings
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There has been no shortage of news about the anemic job market for lawyers, but shouldn’t it be improving now that “the recession is behind us?” The truth is that the recession ushered in dramatic and lasting changes to the job market for lawyers at every level. How do these fundamental changes in the legal industry impact and affect law firm student recruitment? This unique conference will explore what’s changed and what hasn’t in recruiting entry-level talent. You will hear from practitioners on the front lines about what’s working and what isn’t — featuring the views of both law firms and law schools — providing attendees with a 360° perspective on a landscape that has never before been so competitive.
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Ed. note: This is the first installment in a new series of posts on partner issues from Lateral Link’s team of expert contributors. Today, Larry Latourette, Executive Director – Partner Practice, brings us his insights on what it’s like to practice law in the era of mandatory retirement, and how older partners can make a lateral transitions to new firms.
When I first met “Mark” for lunch this summer, he appeared to be in his mid-fifties, in excellent health, and talked about his competitive tennis game, needing to put his teenage kids through college, and his thriving legal practice that he couldn’t imagine giving up in the next ten years. In reality, Mark was 64, faced forced retirement from his firm in nine months, and wanted to know what his options were for moving laterally to another firm.
As a legal recruiter, I have met a growing number of lawyers like Mark who are bumping up against their firms’ mandatory retirement age. This trend will, in fact, accelerate over the next five years, for several reasons. Like other sectors of the economy, the Baby Boomers have had a dramatic effect on lawyer demographics. About 60 percent of law partners are now 55 or older, and by some estimates, a quarter of all practicing attorneys will be 65 or older by next year. At the same time the population is graying, however, it is also living longer. Especially with the increasing number of women in the legal profession, the life expectancy of lawyers who are 65 is now almost 20 years higher, with most of that time spent in good physical and mental health. Finally, the recent downturn in the economy has also caused some lawyers to postpone retirement as their nest eggs have dwindled.
Objectively, there is no question that most older lawyers are up to the challenge of practicing law….
Continue reading “Partners in Practice: The Era of Mandatory Retirement”
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Thanks to the economy, the legal industry has changed. It’s a sink-or-swim world out there, and law firms are rapidly increasing their use of modern technology to assist them when it comes to working more efficiently and reducing spending.
A surefire way to accomplish both goals is by taking advantage of alternative fee arrangements. But what can your firm to do to change the way it bills? Are there any strategies that are actually effective?
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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.
Also, we have the two below in-house openings:
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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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