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Rehiring Attorneys After a Break: Doing the Numbers

By Alexia Garamfalvi
October 30, 2006

Both the American Bar Association and the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco are launching initiatives aimed at helping attorneys who have stopped practicing maintain their connections and ease their transition back into the profession.

Two attorneys from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom started the ABA project, Back to Business Law, in New York this past spring. The goal of the pilot project is to give nonpracticing attorneys a way to keep abreast of major legal developments and to give them opportunities for informal networking. The program will soon expand to Washington, DC. Ann Ford, the managing partner of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's DC office, was so taken with the project when she read about it in May that she decided to organize a DC chapter.

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