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"You
helped me identify the specific skills I
needed, and then provided the
instructional material and mentoring to
gain them."
Senior Litigation Attorney
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You
gain job change advantages by working with
us that are unmatchable by any non-lawyer
or less-experienced advisor. You can
gain a lead over your competition by
working with us, because we are
experienced and expert in areas that are
key to your job campaign success. We
understand the job campaign process and
techniques, and know from experience how
to help you master them.
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Success
Mentoring Lawyers Making Job
Changes
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Douglas
Weinfield, Esq., President of The
Successful Lawyer's Resume, has
over a decade of experience
mentoring lawyers into new jobs
and greater job satisfaction.
He has helped lawyers with
more than 20 years experience and
lawyers fresh out of law school
succeed in their job campaigns.
He has worked successfully with
lawyers moving between law firms
and businesses, and lawyers who
have been laid off, helping them
move into rewarding new
jobs.
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We
know how to help you identify and
master the skills that will
maximize your job change
success. Our decade of
experience has given us expert
knowledge what works and what
doesn't work in moving to a new
job. We have also learned faster,
more direct methods to help you
gain these skills. This
combination helps you accelerate
your job change and avoid job
change detours.
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Experience
Hiring Lawyers
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We
understand how interviewers and
others involved in hiring think,
and help you use that knowledge
to your advantage. We have
participated in hiring lawyers in
law firms, in the government, and
in a not-for-profit organization.
Our familiarity with the job
interview process enables us to
readily grasp the challenges and
opportunities you are facing, so
we can help you move promptly in
the right direction for you, and
get excellent results.
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Experience
Working As a
Lawyer
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We
have worked in large firm,
boutique firm, not-for-profit,
and government settings, and on
litigation, transactional, and
regulatory matters. This
experience lets us understand the
workplace you have been in, and
the one you are moving
to.
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Personal
Job Change
Experience
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We
have successfully made
transitions from government work
to law firm work, between law
firms, and from private practice
to not-for-profit work. This
means that we have hands-on
interview experience in a wide
range of settings. We understand
the process you are going through
from the inside out. That means
we can help you more quickly and
more powerfully than someone who
doesn't have this range of
experience.
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Sophisticated
Proprietary
Methodologies
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Over
the past decade we have developed
a portfolio of highly effective
sophisticated career development
methodologies. These include
tools and approaches that address
assessment, clarification,
planning, negotiation,
networking, and other areas,
designed specifically for
lawyers. These draw on best
practices from business
management, sales and marketing
training, coaching, and various
fields of psychology, and have
proven highly effective with our
clients.
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Proven
Marketing
Experience
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A
successful job change campaign
always reflects successful
marketing and sales
techniques. It is not enough
to be qualified; unless the
employer clearly sees your
qualifications, you can lose out
to someone less qualified. As a
senior associate, Douglas
Weinfield, President of The
Successful Lawyer's Resume
successfully brought in work from
a $3 billion client. Further, his
marketing abilities expanded
memberships by 100% in at a
not-for profit organization, from
60 to 120. Mr. Weinfield has
studied marketing and sales
extensively, and brings that
knowledge to your job
campaign.
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Skilled
and Empathic
Mentoring
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Working
with us, you gain the empathetic,
collegial, supportive and
objective mentoring that will
help you stay on track and
acquire the capabilities that
lead to a good job. We help
you see yourself and your job
campaign from a positive, yet
realistic, perspective. Our
decade of experience enables us
to deeply understand how
challenging and demanding finding
a new job usually is for lawyers,
who work in a competitive and
perfectionistic profession. Our
relentlessly positive, yet
realistic, view of our clients
helps provide an environment of
mutual trust in which you can
feel comfortable to brainstorm
ideas, discuss concerns and
victories, and receive feedback
and support.
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A
Successful Career in the
Law
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Douglas
Weinfield, Esq., President of the
Successful Lawyer's Resume, is an
experienced attorney and
businessman. He has practiced
law with Cadwalader, Wickersham
& Taft, and Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld, including
precedent-setting work in the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit and
serving as lead environmental
attorney in a $3 billion merger.
Later, he served as Environmental
Director of the Manufacturers
Alliance/MAPI, where he provided
counsel to Fortune 500 companies;
directed professional and career
development for senior corporate
managers, and represented the
U.S. government as senior
business consultant to businesses
and not-for-profit organizations
in India. He has also counseled
the World Bank.
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At
the University of Chicago Law
School, he was an Associate
Editor of the University of
Chicago Legal Forum and performed
research for the Honorable
Richard Posner of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit. Following graduation, he
clerked for the Hon. Danny J.
Boggs of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit.
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Telephone
(202)-966-1489 Email
info@jdresume.com
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2002-2004 The Successful Lawyer's
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