The Associate Pirate

I hope you guys have a decent holiday (even if quite a few of you reported plans to work this week).
If your New Year’s resolution is to find a new job, then now’s a good time to take a breather and put a little effort into your resume.  January is traditionally the start of a […]

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As I’ve mentioned before, this is my personal blog, and it’s not endorsed by my employer, Lateral Link. But since the bulk of this blog is going to be about my experience as a legal recruiter, and Lateral Link is where I do that, the company’s obviously going to come up from time to time.
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Right now I’m handling an exclusive search for ActBlue. In-house opportunities are always fun to talk about, but this one’s just awesome.
ActBlue is a small team in Harvard Square that has built a web-based platform for political fundraising, designed to allow Democrats to just click a button to contribute funds to their preferred candidates.
Essentially, they’re […]

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One thing that I kicked around with the guys at Lateral Link before joining the company was the concept of doing some online surveys, and generating some data that we could share with the associates we work with.
Well, we’ve gone from concept to execution in about 2 1/2 weeks. Starting today, I’ll be helping […]

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I don’t think I realized until my sixth or seventh year out of law school that there were legal recruiters out there who had actually been practicing lawyers first. This is a profession largely populated by sales folks, many of whom have never set foot in a law school, much less a courtroom or a […]

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One of my colleagues at Lateral Link likes to point out that we’re not “headhunters”, we’re “legal search consultants.”
It’s a valid distinction.
The typical “headhunter” approach to legal recruiting is to find a need at Big Firm X and then cold call associates at other firms around town until the right associate for the job (or […]

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