Members in Transition Resource List
ACC Georgia Chapter
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Association of Corporate Counsel (jobline.acc.com) – Serving the professional needs of attorneys practicing in corporate legal departments and private sector organizations worldwide. The job database is searchable by state, country, and more than three dozen categories from ADR and antitrust to tax and transactions.
American Bar Association (www.abanet.org/careercounsel) – The ABA’s Career Counsel Section links with LegallyMinded, an online community serving the legal profession created by the ABA. It contains job postings as well as career-oriented articles and career advice pod casts.
American Lawyer Media (www.LawJobs.com) – Employment classifieds from a network of recruiters and legal publications, including its own — the Recorder, National Law Journal, and New York Law Journal. The site contains a rotating collection of career-oriented articles, surveys, and firm rankings.
Law Crossing (www.lawcrossing.com) – A collection of active legal jobs. They monitor the hiring needs of over 1,200,000 legal employers.
InsideCounsel (www.insidecounsel.com) – formerly known as Corporate Legal Times, Inside Counsel is a monthly magazine for in-house lawyers. Their website contains job postings you can access for free after registering online.
FindLaw (http://careers.findlaw.com) – a part of the West Group, FindLaw has a variety of services for lawyers including this site that contains job openings.
Monster (www.monster.com) – contains legal and non-legal databases. Offers an overview of employers and several interfaces for job hunting. You can search by company name, location, discipline, industry, job title, or combinations of these.
CareerBuilder (www.careerbuilder.com) – similar to Monster.
Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com) – a job search site with legal and non-legal positions.
Indeed (www.indeed.com) – for all types of careers, this site claims to include all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages.
Hound (www.hound.com) – again, a job-search engine with legal and non-legal positions.
Womens Job List (www.womensjoblist.com) – Founded in 1999 for employers and job seekers dedicated to diversity and inclusion. The site, which breaks out jobs by more than three dozen professional categories (legal, among them), draws from thousands of employer classifieds posted every day on Craigslist. Free membership; members can sign up for email job alerts.
ATLANTA AREA LEGAL RECRUITERS
Wendy Strassner – Strassner Search Consultants LLC – wstrass@bellsouth.net
Chuck Trense – Trense Group – chuck@trense.com; www.trense.com
Baird Legal Placement, LLC – www.bairdlegalplacement.com
BCG Attorney Search – www.bcgsearch.com
Cambridge Professional Group – www.cambridgeprofessionals.com
Davis Search – http://davissearch1.com
Engage – www.engageattorneys.com
HIRECounsel – www.hirecounsel.com
Hudson RPO – www.am.hudsonrpo.com
LawStaff Group – www.lawstaffgroup.com
Lawyers Weekley Jobs – www.lawyersweeklyjobs.com
Legility – https://legility.com
Major, Lindsey & Africa – www.mlaglobal.com
Matteson Partners – www.mattesonpartners.com
The Partners Group/Legalpeople – www.partners-group.com; www.legalpeoplegroup.com
Robert Half Legal – https://www.roberthalf.com/employers/legal
Special Counsel – www.specialcounsel.com
West Highland Placement – www.westhighlandplacement.com
Alternative Career Paths:
Smith Hanley Associates, LLC (www.smithhanley.com) – recruiters for non-legal jobs in specialized areas including marketing, capital markets, investment banking, insurance and pharmaceutical areas.
OTHER RESOURCES
Attorney Resume (www.attorneyresume.com) – resume writing service.
Unemployment benefits for individuals in Georgia – www.dol.state.ga.us/