(Phoenix, national)
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, interests, and abilities. Clients develop executive presence, [...]
(San Francisco, national)
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 at a San Francisco-area law school. [...]
(Los Angeles)
Helping lawyers deal with problems resulting from job, career or family situations. A Stanford BA, UCLA MBA, UC Denver JD, and Pacifica MA, Gottfried is a former Fortune 500 in-house counsel and solo practitioner. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist and licensed Marriage & Family therapist, Gottfried was a mediator and active in holistic and collaborative [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(Denver, national)
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 taught the Psychology of Conflict, [...]
(Washington DC, national)
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 certified in Leadership Coaching by Georgetown [...]
(Washington DC, national)
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 practiced in New York and Washington [...]
(Washington DC)
Transition counseling to help attorneys explore career options, match skills with vocations and overcome obstacles to change. Honnold also offers therapeutic counseling to reexamine midlife goals, and to balance demands of work life. His is certified to administer all the major assessment and planning tools. A Yale Law School graduate and licensed clinical social worker. [...]
(Washington DC, national)
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 search strategies, and coaching throughout the [...]
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 Of Law, and practicing health [...]
(Atlanta, national)
Ms. Whitaker counsels and coaches lawyers in career development, career transition, and work/life balance. She offers in-person and telephone consultations, and is a licensed provider of the Highlands Ability Battery and other career-related assessments. Ms. Whitaker received her JD cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1986, and served on the [...]
(Atlanta, national)
A former practicing attorney, and a certified, credentialed coach, Debby works with lawyers throughout the country who want to maximize their current positions, those who have been laid off, and those who want to consider “what’s next”. She holds a JD with high honors and an A.B. magna cum laude from Duke University. A coach [...]
(Atlanta, national)
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 Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, [...]
(Chicago, national)
Consults with lawyers considering changes inside, outside and around the law. Heisler’s clients receive assistance in the entire process of career evaluation and change; from self-assessment and market assessment to resourcing, networking and marketing themselves for their next role. Ms. Heisler was graduated from Northwestern University Law School in 1983. She has three years [...]
(Chicago, national)
Helps lawyers to assess their career options inside and outside the legal field, to conduct effective job searches, to develop alternative work/life options, and to enhance career development within the law. Has counseled more than 2,500 lawyers. A JD with a Masters of Social Science from Bryn Mawr, Ms. Nielsen worked as a criminal prosecutor, [...]
(Indianapolis)
Helps clients discover what will make them happy at work and outside of work. He integrates backgrounds, talents, passions, interests, values and work preferences in a model for success reflecting life purpose and mission and capitalizing on the uniqueness of the individual. A longtime member of the Indiana bar, Mr. Shumacker has a comprehensive background [...]
(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, [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(Minneapolis)
Ms. Sauer provides legal professionals with one-on-one career coaching whether they seek to grow in their current position or are looking for a new position. She served as Assistant Dean for Career Services at William Mitchell College of Law for nearly a decade, and has counseled hundreds of law students and graduates on legal career [...]
(Kansas City, national)
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 recently retired after 45 years in law, and now coaches three-to-eight-year associates on getting their careers “unstuck” and moving toward equity partner status. Wrobley has a BA from Yale and [...]
(St. Louis, national)
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 than 20 years, most of which [...]
(Concord)
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 identify their natural strengths and preferences, [...]
(New York City, national)
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 addition to her experience as general counsel [...]
(New York City, national)
Providing career management services to lawyers, including job transition counseling and performance-improvement coaching. Also therapeutic counseling for lawyers with respect to workplace issues, work/home balance issues, and long-term career and life goals. Over 20 years of private practice experience counseling lawyers. Ms. Kanarek is a former chairperson of the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division Career Issues [...]
(Westchester County)
Helps attorneys evaluate their career options, and make the move to a career that better suits their interests, values and aspirations. Her services are customized to client need, and may include aptitude testing, resume preparation, job search and marketing strategy development, and regular coaching during the transition period concerning networking, interviewing and salary negotiation skills. [...]
(New York City, national)
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 University (M.A. and Ed.M., with honors and a [...]
(Portland, national)
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 Consultants, has for the last [...]
(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 [...]
(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.
(Portland)
Counsels and coaches lawyers who want to change or redesign their career. 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. Ms. [...]
(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 [...]
(Philadelphia, national)
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 other professionals undergoing forced or [...]
(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 [...]
(Seattle)
Consulting psychologist; provides career change and leadership coaching for lawyers in private practice, in corporate, law firm and small business start-up settings, and helps individuals evaluate career options outside of the law. More than 15 years assisting professionals achieve greater success and satisfaction in their careers. Contact – js@bridgewaycareer.com.
(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 [...]