The Associate Pirate

Clerks in the Big Apple. Several firms in New York made same-day offers to judicial clerks this month. Another firm told me they wanted to make a same-day offer this week, but their department chair was out of the office.

‘40 Act Now, And We’ll Throw In This Special Bonus Offer! At least one firm in […]

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The Wall Street Journal just did a post on Lateral Link.
Might be a busy day . . .

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Lateral Link sent out a newsletter yesterday, with some pretty interesting stats on our ATL surveys so far:
Over the last 6 weeks Lateral Link has run sixteen surveys on Above The Law, and we have received over 20,000 responses. Some of our most popular surveys focused on whether associates were making their hours, and what […]

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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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