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So you want to start originating?
Once you become a senior associate or a young partner, arguably one of the most important aspects of your career to examine is whether you have your own book of business. Having your own clients and originating is the ticket to having more control over your legal career, but it isn’t always easy. Recruiters at Whistler Partners and partners from Foley & Lardner, Orrick, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz shed some light on how to start building your own book of business in this two-part series.
The question on many folk’s lips at the moment is what the decline in activity in Asia signals for the future of BigLaw in the East, and whether there’s hope that things may yet pick up again... To piece together what’s going on, and to find out what associates with hopes of lateraling eastward can do, we caught up with Justin Flowers, Evan Jowers, and Tina Lee Jebely at legal search firm Lateral Link to find out more.
“We’ve got everything you need to customize the life that you would want, all while making an amazing living,” Natasha DiFiore and Marion Wilson at recruitment firm Lateral Link tell us. We recently caught up with the two Atlanta-based recruiters to learn more about new developments in the city and the state of the booming lateral market.