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District of Columbia | New
York | Pennsylvania
Name – Rita Carey, EdD
Title – Career and executive
coach for lawyers
Location – Baltimore
Services – Career coaching for lawyers. Certified
to administer a variety of assessment instruments.
Background – A former law school career planning
director and career center manager for General Electric. Holds a
doctorate in education. As executive director of FutureWorks, a national
award-winning career center, she directed services for more than
24,000 job candidates and 2000 employees. She is recognized as a
national leader in workforce development and corporate transitions,
and has been consulted by the Wall Street Journal and National Public
Radio.
Contact www.rcmassociates.com
Name – Ed
Honnold, JD/LICSW
Title – Career
counselor for lawyers.
Services – Transition counseling to help attorneys
explore career options, match skills with vocations and overcome obstacles
to change.
Also offers therapeutic counseling to reexamine mid-life goals and
to balance demands of work life. Certified to administer all the major
assessment and planning tools.
Background – JD, Yale Law School. Licensed clinical
social worker. Former law clerk for US Court of Appeals, private law
firm associate,
legislative director to member of Congress and USAID Office of General
Counsel. Founder of a Washington DC-area personal transitions support
organization. Director, Day Center, Psychiatric Institute of Washington.
Contact –
Name – Johnson O’Connor Research
Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Location – Washington, DC
Services – Helps professionals identify their natural strengths,
and directs them to careers that will use those abilities. Through
testing, lawyers unhappy in their work can find a new direction,
whether by switching practice areas, using their JD in a different
capacity, or by switching fields altogether. It can also identify
why their current job is not a good fit.
Background – The nation’s oldest center for the study
of human aptitudes. The organization believes that true job satisfaction
depends upon using those aptitudes (or natural talents and skills)
with which you were born. Testing at one of 11 US locations (see
below for others) takes a day and a half and yields a useful and
individualized job profile and post-test consulting. Fee includes
free follow-up for the first year.
Contact – www.jocrf.org
Name – Carol Kanarek, JD
Title – Career consultant for lawyers
Location – New York City
Services – Providing career management services to lawyers,
including job transition counseling and performance improvement coaching.
Also offers therapeutic counseling for lawyers with respect to workplace
issues, work/home balance issues, and long term career and life goals.
Background – Over 15 years of private practice experience counseling
lawyers. She is a former chairperson of the ABA's Young Lawyers Division
Career Issues Committee. A former large firm corporate lawyer and
law school career services director. Holds a JD from the University
of Michigan; an MA (Anthropology) from the University of Michigan,
and a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from New York University.
Contact –
Name – Linsey Levine
Title - Career Counselor, Coach, Resume Writer
Location - White Plains/Westchester County
Services - Career counseling and coaching for lawyers.
Background - Former career as headhunter for attorneys in NYC. Holds
a Master's Degree in Career Development. Former Faculty of Graduate
School of the College of New Rochelle in Career Development Masters
Program. Provides counseling, assessment, coaching and support to
help clients explore options within and outside the law, and examine
current values, needs, interests, personality style to find emotionally
and satisfying new career directions. Phone coaching available, but
initial in person meetings are preferable.
Contact –
Name – Celia Paul
Title – Career management for lawyers
Location – New York City
Services – Specializes in career change, career planning and
career coaching for lawyers. Services include a complete assessment
of the client’s work options and development of a master plan;
helps organize and conduct the job-search campaign; coaches the client
on networking and interview skills, and meets twice weekly to ensure
that the job search is moving forward.
Background – Founder and president of a New York City-based
legal outplacement firm established in 1980. She conducts career
seminars and workshops for bar associations and law schools, and
is the co-author of Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and
Technical Professionals.
Contact – www.CareerChangeability.com
Name – Johnson O’Connor
Research Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Location – New York City
Services – Helps professionals identify their natural strengths,
and directs them to careers that will use those abilities. Through
testing, lawyers unhappy in their work can find a new direction,
whether by switching practice areas, using their JD in a different
capacity, or by switching fields altogether. It can also identify
why their current job is not a good fit.
Background – The nation’s oldest center for the study
of human aptitudes. The organization believes that true job satisfaction
depends upon using those aptitudes (or natural talents and skills)
with which you were born. Testing at one of 11 US locations (see
below for others) takes a day and a half and yields a useful and
individualized job profile and post-test consulting. Fee includes
free follow-up for the first year.
Contact – www.jocrf.org
Name – Doug Richardson, JD
Title – Executive
coach, career consultant
Location – Suburban Philadelphia
Services – A broad spectrum of individual
and group consulting services, including career reappraisal/vocational
assessment, career transition planning, performance coaching, Emotional
Intelligence training, post-merger assimilation and assessment for
hire. Certified/experienced in over 15 assessment and planning tools.
Background – A nationally recognized expert
in leadership development, interpersonal communication and performance
coaching, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a Masters
in Communication Theory from Penn. A former large-firm litigator
and federal prosecutor, he heads a leadership and career
development
consulting firm. An award-winning columnist for Dow Jones, and a
former director of key executive services for Right Management Consultants.
He has more than 20 years experience in executive/legal outplacement,
assessment for hire, career transition counseling, and confidential
performance coaching.
Contact – www.RichardsonGroup.org
Name – Dave Behrend, M.Ed.
Title – Career planning services
for attorneys
Location – Philadelphia
Services – Provides career planning and counseling
services for attorneys throughout the country. Acts as counselor,
coach, strategist and think-tank for attorneys exploring job change
or career transition. Offers role-playing for interviews, resume/letter
preparation, and helps investigate options within/outside legal profession.
Counsels displaced lawyers, both associates and partners, as well
as floundering recent graduates.
Background – For 25 years, has successfully
counseled attorneys and other professionals undergoing forced
or elective career/employment change. On referral, also provides
career consults for various state bar associations, and for impaired,
disenchanted, and displaced attorneys in lawyer assistance programs.
Assists attorneys for whom addictions or depression has affected
their careers. Has written extensively for legal publications
on workplace topics, and for eight years participated in a careers
program on radio. Active telephone-consulting practice. Holds
an M.Ed.
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