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 2010. 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 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 Two:
We Are Our Stories: Small Changes, Big Impacts
Thursday, April 1,
2010
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Webcast and Live Program
Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP
12 East 49th Street | 30th Floor
New York, NY
Register online at www.nysba.org/April1stWebcast
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Additional Events and Programs of Interest to Transitioning
Attorneys
New Directions: 2010 Practical Skills for Returning to Law
Practice
Pace Law School (In collaboration with
the Westchester Women’s Bar Association)
Information Sessions for 2010
DATES: March 24,
2010 and April 14, 2010
TIME: Noon – 2
p.m.
AGENDA:
Noon -12:30
Introduction by
New Directions Staff
12:30 -
1:30 Remarks
by Current and Past New Directions Participants
1:30 -
2:00
Informal Q & A and Conversation
PLACE: Pace Midtown
Center - Room 811, 551 Fifth Avenue (45th St. and Fifth
Avenue) New York City
For information about our innovative and unique program
to facilitate attorneys’ return to the legal marketplace, please
come to one or both of our upcoming Information Sessions. New
Directions graduates and current participants will be attending to
describe their experiences.
For more detailed information, visit our website at
www.law.pace.edu/newdirections,
call Amy Gewirtz, Director, New Directions, at (914) 422-4606, or
email us at agewirtz@law.pace.edu.
Please RSVP to agewirtz@law.pace.edu by
March 17, 2010
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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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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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