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The Place to Network: Knocking on the Right Doors

By Christy Burke
March 30, 2009

Opportunity knocks when you least expect it ' but will it knock when the economy is in freefall and the legal profession is seeing some of its worst layoffs ever? The answer is ' maybe ' if you network! Great career opportunities do exist for attorneys, even in today's bleak economic atmosphere, and you can uncover them through creative networking strategies.

Lisa Rothblum is a Managing Director of the In-House group at Major, Lindsey & Africa (www.mlaglobal.com), the top-ranked legal search firm in the country. Rothblum says that while executive recruitment firms like hers are certainly important to any job search, especially to the high-level executive searches, she notes additionally that, “Statistics show that a large number of people also find jobs through networking.”

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