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Arizona

Neal Burgis, Ph.D.

(Phoenix, national)

Based in Arizona, with a national practice. Clinical psychologist, executive and career coach, mediator. With more than 25 years experience, Dr. Burgis helps lawyers and others find personal and professional satisfaction inside and outside the workplace. In a process called, “Unlocking the Golden Handcuffs”, Dr. Burgis helps lawyers integrate their background, skills, talents, knowledge, passions, [...]

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California

Leslie Hom, JD

(San Francisco, national)

San Francisco-based, with a national practice. Ms. Hom’s clients are high-achieving attorneys seeking transition to a new position in a legal or non-legal field. She coaches lawyers on strategic career planning, professional communication, and job transitions. A former Assistant Attorney General in Washington State focused on litigation, Ms. Hom is an active law career counselor [...]

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Colorado

Anne Gottlieb Angerman, MSW

(Denver)

Ms. Angerman works with lawyers to help them market themselves, to be more effective in their firms, to change careers, or to deal with life transition or retirement issues. She also works with the families of lawyers. She uses the Myers Briggs assessment, the Strong Interest Inventory, and the Highlands Ability Battery and other online [...]

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Leslie Hilton, JD

(Denver)

Ms. Hilton coaches attorneys through career and professional issues, including career transition (job change, career alternatives, outplacement), practice development, performance and motivation, work-life balance and alignment, and leadership. She offers a full suite of assessment and planning tools. She works in person, groups, and by phone and email. Ms. Hilton spent 15 years practicing law [...]

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Stephanie West Allen, JD

(Denver, national)

Denver-based, with a national practice. Helping lawyers identify individual aptitudes and trait profiles necessary to make career decisions. Ms. Allen practiced law for several years, is a former president of the Santa Clara County (CA) Barristers, and taught Negotiation and Settlement at Hastings College of the Law. She writes articles on professional development, and has [...]

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District of Columbia

Deborah Katz Solomon, JD

(Washington DC, national)

Washington DC-based, with a national practice. Strategic career planning, professional development. Clients are high-achieving attorneys who want to be more effective in their current roles. Ms. Solomon practiced law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she focused on antitrust and class action litigation. Her JD is from Vanderbilt University Law School, and she is [...]

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Dena R. Bauman, JD

(Washington DC, national)

Washington, DC-based, with a national practice. Individualized counseling, coaching, and sustained self-assessment for law students, new grads, and attorneys to help identify strengths, interests and professional goals, and to help develop and implement the strategies to reach them. Ms. Bauman reviews resumes and cover letters, and performs mock interviews. A graduate of Cornell Law, she [...]

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Ed Honnold, JD/LICSW

(Washington DC)

Transition counseling to help attorneys explore career options, match skills with vocations and overcome obstacles to change. Honnold, who also offers therapeutic counseling to reexamine midlife goals, and to balance demands of work life, is certified to administer all the major assessment and planning tools. A Yale Law School graduate and licensed clinical social worker. [...]

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Kate Neville, JD

(Washington DC, national)

Washington, DC-based, with a national practice. Career guidance for attorneys considering a transition within the profession or to another field. Clients range from partners in national law firms and mid-level associates interested in investigating their professional options, to those questioning whether getting a law degree was the right decision. Ms. Neville offers career assessment, targeted [...]

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Stephanie Deckter, JD

(Washington DC, national)

Based in Washington, DC with a national practice. Stephanie Deckter (George Washington University Law, 2005), provides career consulting for students and alums at a top-tier law school in Washington DC, and also works privately with attorneys entering the legal market for the first time and who are transitioning from one position to another, re-entering the [...]

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Florida

Dolly M. Garlo, JD, RN, PCC

Florida-based, with a national practice. Customized guidance in career transition, business development, succession & exit planning, retirement life design, and in creating legacy projects. Works with clients by phone, email and onsite (generally in Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Utah). Ms. Garlo was a university-educated critical care nurse before graduating from the University of Utah College [...]

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Georgia

Debby Stone, JD, CPCC, PCC

(Atlanta, national)

Atlanta-based, with a national practice. A former practicing attorney and a credentialed coach, Debby works with lawyers who want to maximize their current positions, those who have been laid off, and those consider “what’s next”. She holds a JD with high honors and an A.B. magna cum laude from Duke University. A coach since 2002, [...]

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Deborah Brown, MBA/MSW

(Atlanta, national)

Atlanta-based, with a national practice. Helping lawyers redirect their careers to provide professional and personal satisfaction, gain focus and direction within law, and to improve job performance or transition from law. Ms. Brown provides online assessments, and other assessment and career-planning tools. She also offers in-person or telephone appointments. She has an MBA in Human [...]

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Maine

Nancy Gibson, JD

(Portland, national)

Based in Maine; a national practice. Ms. Gibson has been a lawyer and legal educator for more than 20 years. She works with lawyers on career advancement and transition, work-life balance, career satisfaction, workforce re-entry, and retirement planning. She earned her JD cum laude from Northwestern University, practiced in state and federal courts in Chicago, [...]

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Massachusetts

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch, M.A.

(Boston, Newton)

Helps lawyers working in private practice and in small and large firms to focus on their career, identify new career options, design more meaningful work, develop a plan to re-enter the workforce, to manage career transitions, and to balance family and work obligations. Ms. Bloch is a career development specialist with more than 18 years [...]

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Mark Byers, Ph.D.

(Boston)

A counseling and vocational psychologist specializing in professional and personal development issues in the legal profession. Dr. Byers counsels individuals and consults to legal organizations and employers. Services to individuals include career counseling, vocational testing and assessment, coaching for on-going career management issues, and counseling for work-related stress and clinical conditions (e.g., burnout, work/family balance [...]

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Ronald W. Fox, JD

(Boston)

Since 1990, Fox has provided individual guidance and support for lawyers and law students seeking satisfying work consistent with their personal values and professional goals. A Harvard Law School graduate who practiced law for 20 years in a variety of settings, Fox provided career-planning services for Harvard Law students and alums for six years, and [...]

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Minnesota

Roy Ginsburg, JD

(Minneapolis, national)

Roy Ginsburg is a lawyer/coach, helping attorneys nationwide achieve career satisfaction. In addition, Roy is legal marketing ethics counsel to FindLaw and Super Lawyers. An attorney for more than 25 years, he has worked in large and small law firms, and as in-house counsel in corporate legal departments. This well-rounded perspective benefits his coaching clients [...]

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Missouri

Ralph G. Wrobley, Esq.

(Kansas City, national)

Missouri-based, with a national practice. Former equity partner in three Am Law 200 law firms and managing partner in two of them. An in-house associate mentor for many years, Wrobley currently serves as of counsel with Husch Blackwell LLP, and coaches three-to-eight-year associates on getting their careers “unstuck” and moving toward equity partner status. Author [...]

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Wendy L. Werner, M.S.Ed

(St. Louis, national)

St. Louis-based, with a national practice. Ms. Werner helps lawyers in career change, career management, and career enhancement. She serves as a sounding board, referral source, and skilled partner in assisting clients in evaluating their current circumstances, and making effective plans for changes, large or small. Ms. Werner has worked in career consulting for more [...]

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New Hampshire

Betsy Black, JD

(Concord, national)

New Hampshire-based, with a national practice. Values-based professional coaching for lawyers in the areas of work/life balance, job satisfaction, and job and career transitions within and outside the law. After practicing law for several years, Ms. Black navigated her own career transition, and brings this experience to her consulting work with lawyers. She helps lawyers [...]

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New York

Alexandra Duran, JD, MSW, CSW

(New York City, national)

New York City-based, with a national practice. Attorney, HR professional, licensed clinical social worker. Ms. Duran has extensive experience helping lawyers advance in their current position or find new opportunities for personal and professional growth. A frequent contributor to the New York Law Journal, Ms. Duran has more than 25 years in career counseling, in [...]

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Sheryl A. Odentz, M.A., Ed.M, CMF

(New York City, national)

New York City based, with a national practice. Career management for the legal profession. In 20 years, Ms. Odentz has counseled/coached more than 3,000 attorneys and other legal professionals from AmLaw 200 law firms and Fortune 500 companies, and helped them optimize their career potential. Ms. Odentz was formally trained in psychological counseling at Columbia [...]

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Oregon

Bruce Blackstone Hazen, MS

(Portland, national)

Portland-based, with a national practice. Career and management coach. Helping legal professionals to answer and act on three career-related questions: when is it time to move up, when is it time to move out, when is it time to work through style/skill issues that are blocking success. Hazen, a member of the Institute of Management [...]

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Gail Nicholson, MA, LPC

(Portland)

Counsels lawyers in transition as they reflect on their personal and work lives. Ms. Nicholson offers a blend of personal and career counseling, a holistic, person-centered approach. Includes life and career assessment based on personal interests, values, strengths, and personality. She helps clarify current employment and training options, and she helps to separate personal and [...]

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Linda J. Carpenter, Ph.D.

(Portland)

Dr. Carpenter, a career consultant and executive coach, is a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years experience working with lawyers and other professionals, helping them find work that brings meaning and satisfaction to their lives. Her Institute for Inspired Leadership works with law firms “committed to developing leaders throughout the organization”. Go to www.carpentersmith.com.

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Pennsylvania

Amiram Elwork, Ph.D.

(Philadelphia)

Dr. Elwork, author of Stress Management for Lawyers, provides personal counseling and executive coaching to lawyers, and practice management consulting to law firms in the Philadelphia area. In addition, he is a national speaker on a variety of topics related to enhancing the psychological skills of lawyers, and facilitates law firm retreats. Dr. Elwork is [...]

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Dave Behrend, M.Ed.

(Philadelphia, national)

Philadelphia-based, with a national practice. A counselor and coach for attorneys exploring job change or career transition. Behrend offers role-playing for interviews, resume/letter preparation, and helps investigate options within/outside the legal profession. He counsels displaced lawyers, both associates and partners, as well as floundering recent graduates. For 25 years, Behrend has successfully counseled attorneys and [...]

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Washington

Jane Faulkner, JD

(Seattle)

Helping women align life purpose and career, and achieve work/life balance. Works primarily by phone; in-person coaching also available. Ms. Faulkner, a mother of two, practiced law for 12 years before transitioning into public project consulting and non-profit leadership. She received her JD from Ohio State Law School in 1978 and practiced commercial litigation. As [...]

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Karen Summerville, JD

(Seattle)

Helping attorneys find success and satisfaction by assessing career options and targeting appropriate markets effectively. She works with experienced and less experienced attorneys seeking a change within the profession, as well as those seeking to leave the profession. She has extensive experience in the Seattle legal community, including 10 years as career counselor and more [...]

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