Winning Strategies for Managing Your Career 2010

Overview

Why You Should Attend

Attorneys practicing in today’s legal landscape face important choices on how to structure their careers - whether it involves exploring a more stable career path, preparing to strike out on their own, or searching for a new job either inside or outside the legal field.  The current economic instability has had an enormous effect on the legal field.   But with the sound advice offered from the experts in this program, you can take control of your professional future and learn to manage and take advantage of all of the options available.

What You Will Learn

• Adapting to today’s changing work environment
• The benefits and drawbacks of changing practice areas
• What is involved in starting your own firm or practice
• How to make opportunities happen through extensive networking and marketing
• Assessing your core competencies and interests
• The most effective ways of cultivating contacts to advance your career

Who Should Attend

This program will benefit attorneys at all levels of experience in private practice and in government who seek guidance in navigating the current legal landscape.

Special Features

Live Webcast - Simultaneous live webcast of the New York session is available for individual viewing. Webcast participants will receive streaming audio and/or video of the program, view and print the Course Handbook, and have the ability to submit questions electronically.
 
For more information click on the Live Webcast link in the Related Items box.

Special Bonus to all Registrants

All attendees receive a complimentary copy of PLI's comprehensive Course Handbook. This softcover, bound volume was written to augment this program and to stand alone as a permanent reference. PLI's Course Handbooks represent the definitive thinking of the nation's finest legal minds, and are often the standard reference in the field.

Please Note: New York webcast attendees will receive a downloadable version of the Handbook one business day prior to the program.

PLI Group Discounts

Groups of 4-14 from the same organization, all registering at the same time, for a PLI program scheduled for presentation at the same site, are entitled to receive a group discount. For further discount information, please contact membership@pli.edu or call (800) 260-4PLI.

PLI Can Arrange Group Viewing to Your Firm

Contact the Groupcasts Department via email at groupcasts@pli.edu for more details.

Cancellations

All cancellations received 3 business days prior to the program will be refunded 100%. If you do not cancel within the allotted time period, payment is due in full. You may substitute another individual to attend the program at any time.

Schedule

Afternoon Session:  1:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

1:45  Opening Remarks and Introduction

Steven C. Bennett

2:00  Is it time to change your job? Experiences with switching practice areas or sectors

• The state of law firms today
• How to change practice areas within your firm
• Moving from outside counsel to inside counsel, inside counsel to private practice, from one firm to another, from government to private practice, or from private practice to government
• Are any areas of practice particularly recession-proof? (Litigation, criminal defense, family law, estate planning, bankruptcy) 
• Unexpected career transitions - how they happen and how to make them succeed

3:00  Is it time to create your own job?  The pros and cons of striking out on your own

• Do you need to have a base of clients to be successful?
• Is now the time to go out on your own?
• The nuts and bolts of what is involved
• Putting your past experience to good use
• How can you market yourself and your new firm on a budget?

Sari Gabay-Rafiy, Tai H. Park

4:00  Networking Break

4:15  Is it time to find a new job?  Using networking and marketing opportunities     

• How to properly and effectively use recruiters
• How to network effectively:  speaking comfortably with your contacts, creating a plan, and organizing your networking efforts.
• Expanding your network, including the use of social media
• How to leverage your contacts
• Contract jobs for attorneys - are they a valid option and how to pursue them
• When is it the right time to search for a career outside the legal field?

Faculty

Chairperson(s)

Speaker(s)

Program Attorney(s)

CLE Credit

Travel Information

New York City Seminar Location

PLI New York Center, 810 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street (21st floor), New York, New York 10019. Message Center, program days only: (212) 824-5733.

New York City Hotel Accommodations

The New York Hilton & Towers, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. 1 block from PLI Center. Reservations 1-800-HILTONS or, 1-877-NYC-HILT. Please mention that you are booking a room under the Practising Law Institute Corporate rate and the Client File # is N495741. Reservations on line at www.hilton.com and enter the same Client File # in the Corporate ID # field to access Practising Law Institute rates.

The Warwick New York Hotel, 65 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019. 1 block from PLI Center. Reservations 800-223-4099 or, hotel direct 212-247-2700. Please mention that you are booking a room under the Practising Law Institute Corporate rate. Reservations on line at www.warwickhotelny.com Click reservations in menu bar on left. Select desired dates. In 'Special Rates' drop down window select Corporate Rate. In 'Rate Code' enter PLIN. Click search and select desired room type and rate plan. Or, you may email reservation requests to: res.ny@warwickhotels.com.