Kinney Recruiting Chicago is working with one of Chicago’s most highly regarded trusts & estates practices on a search for a wealth preservation associate. This is a partner track position that will eventually take over the group, and the group’s clients, offers a low billable hour target and fantastic work-life balance. Candidates with 3+ years of high net worth sophisticated T&E experience should click here!
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For almost two decades, Kinney Recruiting has been a top international legal recruitment agency and home to some of the most distinguished legal recruiters in the world. With vast market experience and our trademark “no BSā approach, Kinney’s recruiters are favorites among candidates and clients in the legal industry. We are keen to share some of what we have learned with more people, so we’ve chosen some FAQ’s and will be publishing them with our take regularly, starting with the questions below. Beyond this, we are here if you have any questions. We are real people who show up every day and work hard to know as much about the legal industry as anyone. The fruit of our experience is, really, our stock in trade. Do you want to know more about how legal recruiting works? Do you want our take on the market? Do you have a random question of your own? Email and we will get back to you with our take!
The Dallas office of one of our clients, a Top I00 AmLaw international firm, is seeking a mid-level to senior litigation associate with 4-7 years experience. This position affords significant client interaction and requires a high level of responsibility within a team-oriented environment. Want to know more about this outstanding opportunity? Click here for more.
Kinney Recruiting is working with a prestigious law firm in Salt Lake City seeking a partner candidate for its highly-regarded litigation practice. Candidates should expect to lead and support active trial teams including attending motion hearings, taking/defending depositions, excellent compensation and great benefits. Did we mention no book of business is required?
Partners, Counsels, and Associates with 6+ years of experience and excellent credentials should click here.
Itās hard not to like Jack Hopper. In fact, it might just be impossible. āIāve been in this business a long time and I find this to be true: The truly rewarding thing about what we do for a living is that we get to help people. Every placement translates into one thing and that is that we are in a unique position to make real positive differences in peopleās lives.ā Jack is a Managing Director in the Houston office and Austin office of Kinney Recruiting. With over 23 years of experience in the industry, and almost a decade of it at Kinney, Jack knows the intricacies of the practice of law, the secret to being a successful recruiter and the importance of looking beyond the paper and at the person.
Have you been looking to go in-house? Well look no further!
We have just been engaged by a pre-IPO venture capital/private equity/technology company in Austin to find them their first General Counsel. If you have 6+ years of corporate experience at an elite law firm, click here.
In the age of bots (short for āinternet robotsā), and a ton of them at that, itās getting harder to distinguish person from program. These systems are designed to simulate human activity and they work – to a point. Lately, some enterprising “legal recruiters” have begun using bots to lure candidates into permitting them to submit those candidates to potential employers. While the line between an exchange with a real person and a robot is getting fuzzier, one thing is clear – candidates allowing themselves to be represented by bots are NOT doing themselves any favors. Weāve been in the industry long enough to know that a good recruiter canāt be lazy and that the most important value-add we bring is often the personal feel for matchmaking. Some things need to be left to the experts. From sage advice and industry insight to finding a firm that’s a good fit, working with a reputable and respected (living, breathing) recruiter is irreplaceable. Not only that, but working with an agency using bots to replace its recruiters might hinder your chances of being placed as opposed to helping them. While you may be one of a few thousand mid-level corporate associates, you are a unique candidate with unique skills and experiences. Why should you let a bot recruiter treat your search just like everyone elseās?Ā
Great advice from Kinney Recruiting’sĀ Joshua Shirley on making sure your resume lands in the hands of a person, not a program:
PSA: don’t go clicking any approval boxes next to firm names on a website you registered on 5 seconds ago. Not on our website and not on others until you’ve talked with someone over the phone.
We at Kinney Recruiting know that making it big in Biglaw takes more than just experience and qualifications. Some of our most successful placements have been people who were less brainy and more people-skilled. Similarly, it seems like the differentiating factor between the people who progress through the Biglaw ranks and those who donāt isnāt just brainpower but also self-confidence and unparalleled people skills. This got us thinking: What does our experience tell us about the best tips for getting and staying with the Biglaw elite? Here are our top five tips for making it big in Biglaw.
