Are you preparing for the top rung on the ladder?
Each lawyer in this diverse group is seeking leadership roles with significant business, managerial, and leadership components. They’d like to obtain equity partnership, C-suite roles like chief legal officer (CLO) or general counsel (GC), or other leadership positions.
In most cases, they’re eyeing the next rung on the law firm or corporate ladder. However, each faces a different set of challenges depending on practice areas, target employers and industries, and other individual factors.
Executive lawyers may include attorneys with:
- 15 to 45 years of experience, with compensation packages clustered between $200,000 and $500,000
- Corporate leadership roles such as GC at start-ups, regional or statewide companies, or other non-Fortune 500 companies
- Corporate legal department leadership roles such as deputy general counsel (DGC) or head of a practice group in a large corporation
- Law firm leadership roles such income partners
- Government or non-profit leadership or supervisory roles such as commissioner, deputy attorney general, and executive director
Executive-track and partnership-track lawyers may include attorneys with:
- Generally 7 to 15 years of experience, with compensation packages clustered between $150,000 and $350,000
- Assistant general counsel (AGC) roles in Global 100 and Fortune 500 companies, subsidiaries, or other businesses
- Senior associate and Of Counsel roles in prominent law firms
- Prosecutors and other government attorneys moving to supervisory roles or the private sector
Quite simply, our goal is to help you level up.
Among the greatest challenges for these lawyers is preparing to take the next step up the ladder, including building a strong foundation and a suite of career portfolio documents. (If you’re looking to downshift, then we can help you with that too.)
How we can help you
Career Services
Just a few of the areas we can help you with are...
Writing and Branding
Résumés and CVs
Cover letters and correspondence
LinkedIn profiles
Deal sheets, representative matters, and sample projects
Listings of presentations, speaking engagements, and media mentions
Leadership bios
Recruiter questionnaires
Marketing and website copy
Business plans
30-60-90 day plans
Creation and articulation of a clear professional brand
Identification of value and impact
Immediate Career Decision-Making
Working with retained legal and executive search consultants
Moving in-house from a law firm or other lateral moves
Demonstrating industry-specific or problem-specific track records
Building career narratives around non-linear work experience
Developing a potential book of business
Improving on-the-job performance
Navigating office politics and personalities
Getting sponsors and mentors
Leveraging early career or military experience
Getting credit for language and cultural fluencies
Changing job markets
Deciding among job offers
Preparing for job interviews
Negotiating salary
Downshifting
Long-Term Career Planning
Networking and relationship building
Building and showcasing thought leadership
Positioning for corporate or nonprofit boards
Identifying your best fit roles and employers
Identifying technical or experiential soft spots, as well as building plans to beef them up
Creating and moving toward end-goals
Planning for retirement
Looking forward to giving back and post-retirement fulfillment
Career Coaching
Most of our executive and executive-track clients don’t want long-term career coaching packages. Instead, they have specific, periodic need for a strategic career adviser and partner. Our career coaching is designed as a simple, elegant solution: just tell us the issues you’d like to discuss, and send us your current résumé (Don’t worry: it doesn’t have to be in great shape) so that we have some context. We offer general career coaching, coaching with executive / legal recruiters, job search coaching, career decision-making, and more.
Résumé Writing by Screen Share (Hourly)
Through the résumé writing by screen share , you can get an expert critique of your existing résumé and edit at same time.
This can be a great option for those who need a quick turnaround, a more straight-forward story, or who already have a solid résumé.
However, résumé writing by screen share can also a great choice for lawyers of all levels who are concerned about professional branding and positioning for a shifting marketplace, or those with a complex career narrative.
Résumé writing by screen share services are performed at hourly rates, which means the track has enormous flexibility. Lawyers can work with their expert for as much—or as little—time as they want.
Bespoke Résumé Writing (Programmatic)
Although designed for CLOs, GCs, C-Suite Lawyers, and Law Firm Equity Partner, the bespoke résumé writing track can be useful to lawyers aspiring to those roles as well. If you want an intensive, deep dive into your career or a more holistic approach, then the bespoke track may be a better option. Be forewarned: Our bespoke résumé writing program can easily take 20 to 30 hours of effort, including 5+ consulting sessions with you. There’s usually a 2 to 6-week wait to start, the entire process can run 2 to 4 months, and the minimum investment is $5,795 and generally runs to $6,795.
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
There are said to be more than eight million C-level executives on LinkedIn, and been reported that more than one third of business executives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia use LinkedIn. Additionally, LinkedIn is now one of top recruiting tools for retained, contingency, and internal recruiters. Therefore, we recommend all lawyers have a strong, polished presence on LinkedIn—even those who are passive or stealth job seekers. We can help you put together a LinkedIn profile that reflects your leadership and value, as well as positions you as a target of acquisition.
Why Work with Us? Sample Testimonials from Executive Lawyers, Law Partners, Executive -Track Attorneys, and Partnership-Track Associates
Why work with Bryce Legal? How can you choose the best lawyer career coach and legal résumé writer for you? Here’s what just a few our clients say. To read hundreds of client reviews and testimonials from attorneys, please see Our Client Testimonials.