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ARIZONA

Name – Janina Latack, PhD
Title – Career consultant and executive coach
Location – Tucson
Services – Helping lawyers find new jobs, change career direction, and work more effectively in their current positions. Uses all major assessment and planning tools, as well as reflective learning assignments. Works in-person or by telephone. Offers a free 30-minute initial consultation.
Background – Certified with the National Board for Certified Counselors and the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health. Contributor to the ABA’s Changing Jobs Handbook. Presenter for the Arizona Bar Association and the ABA’s annual meetings. An affiliate consultant with Right Management, a major outplacement organization, and an adjunct faculty with the University of Arizona and Ohio State University. Holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Personnel Psychology from Michigan State.
Contact – www.JaninaLatack.com  

CALIFORNIA

Name – Sue Aiken
Title – Career Counselor for lawyers
Location – San Francisco Bay area
Services – Has worked with lawyers in career-related transitions for 15 years. Her focus is on individual counseling, workshops and support groups. Services include: self-assessment and transition issues, assistance on the tools needed to conduct research for a job search, development of an action plan and goal setting, input on resume and interview preparation.
Background – A Nationally Certified Career Counselor and a member of the California Registry of Professional Counselors. For 10 years she has been program chair of the graduate program in career development and associate professor in career development at John F. Kennedy University as well as a contract career counselor with Alumnae Resources in San Francisco. Currently provides contract career services to the employees of the FDIC in San Francisco.
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Name – Daniel Hoffman, JD
Title – Attorney Coach and Career Counselor
Location – San Francisco Bay area
Services – Helps attorneys in all phases of their legal career. Expertise in guiding career transitions within and outside of law. Excellent guidance in job search strategies, including resume and cover letter preparation, job search plan, interviewing, and negotiating a position. Onsite and telephone consulting.
Background – Stanford Law School graduate and former associate at a top national firm. More than 17 years experience in attorney recruiting, outplacement and career counseling.
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Name – Susan W. Miller
Title – Career Counselor
Location – Los Angeles
Services – Assists attorneys and others with identifying career options, exploring options and job search, providing information and support for action. Provides individualized and group career counseling services and is a provider of services for the Lawyer Assistance Program offered by the California State Bar.
Background –Susan is a National Certified Career Counselor (NCCC), and a Certified Vocational Evaluation Specialist who holds Diplomate Status on the American Board of Vocational Experts. She received her Master's degree at U.C. Berkeley in Counseling Psychology.
Contact – www.californiacareerservices.com

Name – Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Locations – Los Angeles, San Francisco
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 – 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

COLORADO

Name – Angelique Electra, JD/MBA
Title – Career Coach
Location – Denver
Services – Career assessment, career planning, life-work balance issues, career development and transition for JDs, lawyers and law students. Services focus on self-assessment, coaching, and the development of self-marketing tools and plans for effective professional and career development. Uses a number of major assessments, including her proprietary JurisDoctor Profiles™, a career and self assessment system for lawyers and JDs. Works in-person or by telephone.
Background – JD/MBA, Yale University. A practicing corporate attorney with Fortune 500/1000 companies since 1982 Transitioned into career coaching in 1997, and created The JurisDoctor™ (lawyer assessment) Profiles the following year. Trained in coaching through several national coaching programs. Has facilitated and co-facilitated CLE courses on career transition for lawyers.
Contact – www.TheJurisDoctor.com

Name – Suzanne Holmes, EdD
Title: Psychotherapist, licensed professional counselor
Location: Boulder
Services: Helps lawyers with issues associated with life/career transition, career decision-making, and personal empowerment. Also assist individuals and couples with concerns that relate to interpersonal stress and conflict; catastrophic and early childhood trauma; mood disorders such as depression, anxiety and panic.
Background: Ed.D. in counselor education/counseling psychology. Worked as director and/or associate director of career services at two nationally ranked law schools, and served as career consultant at a third law school, and acted as mental health consultant in each of these settings. Simultaneously maintained a private counseling practice assisting attorneys who were experiencing dissatisfaction with their career situations. Has authored several articles and presented numerous seminars on career satisfaction for attorneys and on attorney counseling. Currently, an affiliate faculty member at a Denver university, and active member of the American Counseling Association.
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Name – Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Location – Denver
Services – See California listing for details.
Contact – www.jocrf.org

OREGON

Name – Linda Carpenter, PhD
Title – Career consultant and executive coach
Location – Portland
Services– Helping lawyers create excellence and meaning in their lives, in their work and in the workplace.
Background – A clinical psychologist with expertise in understanding human nature and helping clients clarify who they are and what they need to do to act on their own behalf in creating a life that is rich and satisfying. Over 15 years experience working with law firms and law firms wishing to integrate performance excellence and personal meaning.
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Name – Minda Redburn, MA
Title – Career Development Counselor
Location – Portland
Services – Counsels and coaches lawyers who want to accomplish a career redesign or change. Helps clients identify and implement career options that fit who they are, and that will bring them joy. Offers psychological and personal growth counseling to support clients with the challenges involved in rethinking their professional identity and with accomplishing a career transition. Customizes the process to the goals and needs of each client.
Background – A Masters Degree in counseling psychology. Extensive experience with lawyers in career transition on referral from Oregon Attorney Assistance Program. Workshop presenter for the OAAP and other organizations on career-related topics. Studied organizational behavior and interpersonal dynamics in the workplace, and has 15 years in HR development and management training in corporate settings, of which 10 years were spent working with lawyers in a private career development counseling practice.
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WASHINGTON STATE

Name – David Goodenough, MS LMHC
Title – Career counselor & law firm consultant
Location – Seattle
Services -- Career counseling for lawyers focusing on career development/promotions, career transitions, practice selection, and coaching for the solo practice start-ups. Also leadership coaching, troubled employee counseling, and outplacement counseling for lawyers. Works in person and by phone.
Background -- Licensed Mental Health Counselor, 20 years career counseling, outplacement counseling and leadership coaching with a heavy focus on lawyers and law firms. Twelve years of social services administration and mental health counseling prior to private practice. Extensive knowledge of law firms and in-house legal work via years of consulting.
Contact – www.TheGoodEnoughCompany.com

Name – Irene Leonard, JD
Title – Business development coach
Location – Seattle
Services – Helping lawyers create the practice they want by improving their focus and direction, their practice and marketing skills, and helping them grow their practice with an emphasis on overall satisfaction. Offers telephone consulting and coaching, as well as periodic tele-classes.
Background – Member of the Washington State Bar Association and the Law Society of British Columbia. Certified by the International Coach Federation. Has 20 years experience in both the US and Canada as a lawyer, business owner, in-house counsel, real estate executive, and investor relations manager.
Contact – www.CoachingforChange.com

Name – Karen Summerhill, JD
Title – Career counselor for lawyers
Location – Seattle
Services – Helps attorneys find success and satisfaction by assessing career options and targeting appropriate markets effectively, even in challenging times. Works with experienced and less experienced attorneys who are seeking a change within the profession, as well as those seeking to leave the profession. Also offers outplacement services.
Background – Extensive experience in the Seattle legal community, including 10 years as career counselor and over 10 years as a practicing attorney. Former law firm partner, VP of an international outplacement firm, and interim career services director at the University of Washington School of Law. A frequent speaker at CLEs and seminars. Her advice column appears regularly in the King County Bar Bulletin.
Contact – www.LegalCareerManagement.com

Name – Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation
Title – Aptitude testing center
Location – Seattle
Services – See California listing above for details.
Contact – www.jocrf.org

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