The GC who started as a “temp”
When Stephen Sitley was named senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Sears Holdings Corp., my mind raced through the Way Back machine to a fond memory of my roots as a legal recruiter. In 1993, I was cutting my teeth and learning this...Quality over dollar signs: What do we know about in-house counsel career satisfaction?
Career satisfaction. What does it really mean? Finding happiness in any job means different things to different people. While money is often an important source of career satisfaction, it’s not always at the top of the list. At Evers Legal Search, we are conducting...From a high school mock trial to the GC seat of Dyson: Jason Brown
By the time Minneapolis-area native Jason Brown was in high school, he already knew he wanted to be a lawyer. During a civics class his sophomore year, Brown participated in a mock trial, in which he served as lead defense counsel. From preparing for trial and...Aim High: Career Advice from 4 Successful GCs
The role of general counsel is a coveted position for which many lawyers strive.. But the path to the GC seat varies greatly. While some highly successful general counsel cut their teeth in big law firms, others landed junior level in-house positions straight out of...Hitting on All Cylinders (2017 style)
I hope you are feeling as good about your employer as I am this holiday season. 2017 has been one of the most enjoyable years of my career, and I am extraordinarily thankful to our clients, candidates and friends of our firm for this result. We handled interesting and...Fast and furious: visionary and race car driver Jeff Carr continues driving change in the delivery of legal services
As a young man growing up in Delaware, Jeff Carr was always hard at work. Whether he was fixing banged-up cars in his family’s body shop, refinishing beautiful pieces of furniture in his uncle’s artisan furniture store or preventing drownings as a lifeguard at the...Legal Department Operations, Delegate it to an Expert
By working exclusively with corporate legal departments and eschewing law firm recruiting, Evers Legal stays in tune with the evolution of in-house culture. Although we are best known for traditional direct hire search and placement of experienced in-house counsel,...Is the Exciting World of Legal Operations Right for You?
We’d like to thank Brad Blickstein, principal at the Blickstein Group, for serving as this issue’s Your Career guest columnist. Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you process- and budget-oriented? Do you love finding new ways to get things done? Then...Career advice
Preparing to become a General Counsel, corporate politics, asking for a raise, networking… we have covered a range of topics in our monthly career advice column for Inside Counsel. Please scroll through for topics that might be relevant for you. But also: we...
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