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Mike pens a monthly career advice column in Corporate Counsel magazine.

Check out his most recent columns in Corporate Counsel (law.com) discussing how to best approach openings that are being handled without search firm use, tips on hiring nonlocal lawyers and finding the best GC fits for startup companies.

If you have any topic ideas you would like to see addressed in a future column, please send ideas and suggestions to [email protected].  

August 2019

Go Around Human Resources

My search firm works with HR departments routinely. And so, the title of this column might ruffle a feather or two. But I hear frustration daily from attorneys who never get a response after applying for positions that are being handled directly by internal HR folks (over 90% of all openings). It’s time to put in writing the advice I usually offer when I get those calls.

July 2019

Tips When Hiring Nonlocal Lawyers

Our firm gets a number of search assignments that involve geographic relocation, often to small markets with one major Fortune 500 employer. Think of places such a Midland, Michigan and Bentonville, Arkansas.

June 2019

What’s the Best Fit for Startups? The Entrepreneurial GC

Webster’s defines the word oxymoron as follows: “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.”

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