Counsel to Counsel
Counsel to Counsel is a forum for discussing legal career issues facing associates and partners. The focus is on law firm life but this blog is also relevant to in-house counsel. The author, Stephen Seckler, has been a legal recruiter in Boston since 1997 and current runs the Boston office of BCG Attorney Search. He has substantial experience as a coach working with attorneys to find more career satisfaction. The guest bloggers are fellow BCG recruiters who work in other jurisdictions.
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Recent Articles
Don't Repress Your Feelings
My BCG colleagues and I have been trying to offer suggestions to help lawyers get through the current recession. For some tips that we have all missed, here is my latest post on BCG's Lateral Attorney Report.
Overseas Slowdown?
Practicing in the Far East or Middle East may not be as easy as I previously reported.
These Are a Few of My (Least) Favorite Things
Business pitches on the golf course, surprise $35,000 bills for legal memos and lawyers who discuss cases with the company's executives without keeping in-house counsel in the loop are just a few of general counsel's least favorite things. Click here to read the rest of the article.
Be Successful at Something
I am pleased to report that CounseltoCounsel has been selected again for the ABA's Blawg 100 (the top 100 websites by lawyers, for lawyers as determined by the editors of the ABA Journal). If you would like to vote for CounseltoCounsel for best in the Careers category, please click here and scroll...
The Walking Wounded
The phone calls and office visits are increasing. Like recruiters all over the country, I am spending an increasing amount of my time counseling associates who have been "let go". The effects are visceral. I can see it in their faces and hear it in their voices. "How can this be happening to me?...
Terror in Mumbai
It is ironic that that just as I was blogging about the coming wave of legal process outsourcing in India, Mumbai was hit with a horrible wave of terror. These attacks are a painful reminder that wherever opportunity exists, it is accompanied by risk.Of course in business, we usually think about...
A Passage to India
If the frequency of media reports is any indication, then outsourcing legal work to India is starting to reach a tipping point. The latest article appeared in today's Wall Street Journal. Last week, I did a post on the growth of patent outsourcing.The ABA just addressed the issue this past summer...
Keep Asking Questions
In my latest article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (In Making a Lateral Move, Look Before You Leap ), I have addressed some of the important questions that you should be asking yourself before contemplating a lateral move.As it turns out, asking a lot of questions (at least about firm finances),...
Lawyers Wanted: Abroad
While the market for corporate associates may be very weak right now in the United States, demand for top corporate talent remains strong in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong. That according to the New York Times (free subscription required).
Patent Services Outsourcing to India Hits $46 Million
This is only the latest in a long series of articles that I have seen in the NLJ over the past several years. Clearly this presents a threat to U.S. law firms and patent lawyers. But it also represents a tremendous opportunity.