At some point you have to get out of here. The question is when – and whither. A vacation might help, if you could achieve the impossible and take one. My client pulled off a week – seven whole days! – at a Caribbean resort, only to return feeling like a condemned prisoner. “It made [...]
Posts Tagged ‘headhunters’
Frying pan
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged associate satisfaction, associate satisfaction surveys, changing law firms, emergency childcare, headhunters, law school on January 18, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Jungle Drums
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged candidate, conga line, dance the limbo, door-to-door salesman, exclusivity, Harvard, Harvard Law School, headhunters, legal job-hunting, legal search consultants, limbo pole, party, party animals, placements, real estate agent, S.O.L., shindig, silly horns, Sullivan & Cromwell, therapist, vacuum cleaner salesman, Yale Law School on November 30, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I received an offer recently that I couldn’t refuse – an invitation from “legal search consultants.” Headhunters! They were having a convention and asked if I wanted to drop by, and, you know, say hi. Vague images flitted through my mind – guys in suits dancing in a conga line wearing hats with silly horns. [...]