Events of Interest
The Committee on Lawyers in Transition posts events of
interest for lawyers in transition. The Committee is in
the process of developing programs for 2009. If you have program
ideas or suggestions, please contact the committee chair, Lauren J.
Wachtler at ljw@msk.com.
To be added to the mailing list and event e-mail list, please contact
Kathy Suchocki, NYSBA Staff Liaison, at ksuchocki@nysba.org or
518/487-5590.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Lawyers in Transition 2009 Career Development
Series
Free Live Webcasts
The NYSBA Committee on Lawyers in Transition is
sponsoring free LIVE webcasts for all attorneys in need
of career assistance.
If you are currently unemployed, looking to make a
career change, leave your current job or transition back to the
workforce after time away from the profession, the Committee on Lawyers
in Transition is here to help. Designed to help attorneys in
transition, the programs will offer advice and resources to
increase the odds of finding rewarding work.
The live webcasts are free to all
attorneys, but pre-registration is required. Each program will be
recorded and links to the archived programs will be posted.
Session Nine: SpeedReaching Interviewers: A Strategic Advantage
for Lawyers in Transition
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 12:00
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Presented by Paul D. Tieger, Former Jury Consultant,
Author of Do What You Are
In a competitive job market, attorneys seeing employment
need the ability to quickly and effectively demonstrate their value to
potential employers.
Paul D. Tieger, a former jury consultant,
internationally recognized expert in Personality Type and the author of
the 800,000 copy best selling career book Do What You Are, will
demonstrate how you can capitalize on your natural communication
strengths and avoid potential weaknesses to positively influence
interviewers. You will learn how to be alerted to key clues about each
interviewer's preferred communication style, enabling you to "speak
their language" to best assure a positive outcome.
As part of this program, participants will have an
opportunity to complete a free and accurate on-line Personality Type
assessment, which will help identify key assets and most suitable career
choices.
Register online at www.nysba.org/November18thWebcast.
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Additional Events and Programs of Interest to Transitioning
Attorneys
NEW DIRECTIONS 2010: PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR RETURNING
TO LAW PRACTICE
OPEN HOUSE INVITATION
DATES: November 19,
2009
TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Pace Law School, 78 North
Broadway, White Plains, New York 10603 - Gerber Glass
Building, Library Lounge (First Floor)
For information about our innovative and unique program
to facilitate attorneys’ return to the legal marketplace, please
come to our upcoming Open House. New Directions graduates
will be attending to describe their experiences. You provide the
questions – we provide food, beverages and answers!
For more detailed information, visit our informative
website at www.law.pace.edu/newdirections or contact
Amy Gewirtz, New Directions, at (914) 422-4606 or agewirtz@law.pace.edu
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Active Engagement: How To Have Coaching Conversations With
Associates & Alumni
Thursday December 03, 2009
3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
1330 Maryland Ave Sw
Washington, DC 20024 US
Here's the new work reality: work relationships are in turmoil, firm
morale and reputations have taken a beating and record numbers of
colleagues are now "alumni." As trusted advisors within law firms,
professional development personnel are uniquely positioned to guide
attorneys. This program explores how and when to have coaching
conversations, its benefits and limitations and how coaching
conversations can be used to motivate, improve difficult conversations,
build confidence, and direct associate/alumni career advancement and
goal setting.
Sponsored by NALP & ALI-ABA Professional Development Institute
2009
For more information, go to http://nalp.org
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Women's Pathways:
Become an Entrepreneur
This new five-day course, part of NYU Stern School of
Business Executive Education Open Enrollment Programs, provides
participants with analytical and planning tools as well as guidance from
faculty and industry professionals to develop a business plan for
launching a new venture. This program addresses the unique challenges
facing women entrepreneurs in general, and transitioning mothers
specifically. It's going to be an intense, involving experience that
allows participants to learn, create and interact in a risk-free,
supportive environment.
Specifically, women who have taken time out of the work force to
raise a family or focus on other obligations are in a particularly
unique position to consider their career options. Even before the
fluctuations in the market, many of these women were already thinking
about re-entering the business community by starting their own social or
commercial ventures. Despite some of the challenges that come with
building a new enterprise, these women are uniquely equipped with
organizational and management skills that are a daily part of managing a
family. The question for many of these professionals is: "How can I
create a situation where my skills and abilities can be financially
productive and meaningful?"
Capacity is limited. For more information or to register
go to http://execed.stern.nyu.edu/carr1-pathways_spr2009.
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Shifting Gears: Transition Training for Lawyers
Sponsored by Interfacet, Inc.
For more information, go to www.interfacet.com
If you are a professional who has been out of the
workplace and want to return, this intensive, skills-based set of
workshops at the Doubletree in Tarrytown, New York is for
you. Refresh all
the skills necessary to return to the workplace with confidence and
capability. Create a tailored career map, redo your resume, write
focused cover letters, learn to network effectively, upgrade your
computer skills, learn to ace an interview and get the job, dress for
success, and 30 days follow up coaching with Interfacet's skilled
counselors.
Topics include: Crafting a
Career Path: Alternative and Action Plans, Resumes and Cover Letters,
Technology Skills, Legal Writing, Networking,Interviewing Skills, Online
Legal Research, The Modern Workplace: Cultural Competencies for Success,
Ethics of Transition, Starting Your Own Law Practice
For more information, contact
Deb Volberg Pagnotta, Esq. at Interfacet, Inc., 81 Main Street, Suite
300 White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 997-8888 or info@interfacet.com.
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New Directions: Practical Skills for Returning to Law
Practice
For information about the innovative and unique program to
facilitate attorneys’ return to the legal
marketplace, please visit www.law.pace.edu/newdirections or contact
Amy Gewirtz at (914) 422-4606 or agewirtz@law.pace.edu.
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Opting Back In and Forging Ahead - Helping
Attorneys Return to the Law
The "Opting Back In and Forging Ahead" Program is sponsored by the
University of California Hastings College of the Law's Center for
WorkLife Law through its Project for Attorney Retention to help
attorneys return to law practice after leaving the field to care for
their families.
Sessions will include:
- returnees talking about how they made the transition back into
law
- employers giving advice about what they’re looking for
- career experts teaching career options, interviewing and networking
skills
- people-who’ve-been there advising on how to negotiate
schedules that will give you work/life balance
For further information, please go to http://www.pardc.org/Optin/
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New York Flex-Time Lawyers LLC
Meetings
At Flex-Time Lawyers LLC meetings, Deborah Epstein Henry facilitates
discussions on topics relating to work/life and women, often with guest
speakers. In an interactive exchange, learn what the finance and
accounting fields are doing to lead the charge on women's initiatives
and how law firms are following the business world to capitalize on the
trend. Hear about the impetus for starting women's initiatives and
how firms are defining their mission, leadership, scope, participants
and programming. Learn how to gain leadership and financial
support to build a women's initiative and how to handle pushback,
communication, promotion, logistics and feedback. The challenges and successes firms are facing in
developing women's initiatives and their future direction in the legal
profession will also be discussed.
For more information about Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, go to http://www.flextimelawyers.com/
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The Opt-In
Project
The Opt-In Project is a program sponsored by Heller Ehrman LLP
designed to bring industry leaders together to share concerns, discuss
ideas and find new solutions to keep women in the workplace and in
positions of leadership. Started in May of 2006, the group has
sought direction from women in professional services firms, financial
services firms, and the high tech industries across the country to help
identify real and practical ways to retain and advance women in the
workplace.
For more information about the Opt-In Project, go
to: www.hellerehrman.com/optin
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If you have program ideas or suggestions, please
contact committee chair, Lauren J. Wachtler at ljw@msk.com.
To be added to the
Committee's mailing list and e-mail list, please contact Kathy Suchocki,
NYSBA Staff Liaison, at ksuchocki@nysba.org or 518/487-5590.
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