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Climbing the Corporate (Counsel) Ladder: Tips and Strategies for Landing Your Next Big In-House Legal Role
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Climbing the Corporate (Counsel) Ladder | Tips and Strategies for Landing Your Next Big In-House Legal Role.
Obtaining a General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel-level position is the ultimate career ambition of many hard-working in-house attorneys. Yet with relatively few such opportunities at the top of the in-house pyramid, how can career-minded corporate counsel set themselves apart in the hypercompetitive market for these most sought-after roles?
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Topics will include:
- Current hiring trends in connection with GC and Deputy GC roles;
- The most in-demand skill sets for GC and Deputy GC level roles, and how to acquire them;
- Other soft-skill traits and qualities required for success in higher-level in-house legal roles, and how to strengthen these;
- The role of networking and personal relationships and how to network effectively;
- How the GC/Deputy GC-level resume should differ from the standard in-house counsel resume;
- The role of outside recruiters in pursuing GC/Deputy GC roles, and how to get the attention of top recruiters;
- The importance of LinkedIn and LinkedIn profile optimization;
- How best to prepare for a GC/Deputy GC-level interview; and more!
The discussion will be moderated by In-House Connect founders
Event schedule:
6:30PM - 7:00PM: Registration and Networking
7:00PM - 8:30PM: Program
8:30PM - 9:30PM: Cocktails and Networking
Note: This program is not CLE-eligible.
The program will be held at the offices of our gracious sponsor,
About Our Speakers:
Dimitri Mastrocola
Dimitri Mastrocola is a Partner at MLA and one of the preeminent legal recruiters on Wall Street and beyond. His executive search practice is focused on general counsel, in-house counsel and compliance officer search for national and international corporations, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers and corporate / investment banks.
Beyond legal and compliance recruiting, Dimitri helps clients to fill C-suite executive positions across the entire organization, with deep expertise placing senior finance, marketing, R&D, sales and operations professionals, as well as traders and portfolio managers.
Dimitri's area of strongest legal recruiting focus is placing senior talent within financial services firms. He is regularly retained as an exclusive executive search consultant by alternative asset management firms (hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices), traditional asset managers, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers and corporate/investment banks.
James Lee
James Lee is a Managing Director in MLA’s In-House Counsel Practice and is based in the New York office. He focuses on placing general counsel, in-house counsel and senior compliance professionals into global, national and regional companies. He has experience working with companies in many different industries, including technology, financial services, consumer products, industrials, insurance and entertainment.
James grew up in NYC and spent several years in Seoul and London prior to his legal recruiting career. He resides in Westchester with his wife, son and their Corgi. He is a tortured Mets, Knicks and Giants fan.
About Major Lindsey & Africa
Major, Lindsey & Africa is the world’s leading legal search firm. The firm, founded in 1982, offers a range of specialized legal recruiting and advisory services to meet the ever-changing needs of law firms and legal departments and to support the career aspirations of talented lawyers and legal and compliance professionals. With more than 25 offices and 200-plus search consultants around the world, Major, Lindsey & Africa uses its market knowledge and experience to partner with organizations to fulfill their legal talent needs and provide solutions to increase team efficiency and effectiveness. Major, Lindsey & Africa is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in talent solutions.
About In-House Connect
In-House Connect is an active professional networking group run by in-house attorneys, exclusively for in-house attorneys. Our mission is to help in-house counsel form meaningful connections with one another and cultivate key skills, so that together we can advance our careers, derive greater job satisfaction and provide maximum value to the organizations we serve.
We fulfill our mission by regularly organizing timely, relevant and high-quality CLE and practical skills-based programs designed to give you a competitive edge, whether at your current company or in your next big in-house role. Our presentations are always accompanied by fun and valuable professional networking opportunities for our members and sponsors, and we also hold two blowout networking mixers per year.
The group is open exclusively to in-house corporate, public interest and government counsel and membership and our regular monthly events are Free. You can join In-House Connect
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