A New View on Relocation....
By Carey Bertolet
Carey Launched Laurence Simons’ New York office in 2010. Prior thereto, Carey served as Managing Director of the New York City office for one of the U.S.’s top legal recruiting firms (2000-2010), where she was responsible for launching the New York office in 2000. Prior to her career as a recruiter, Carey was a commercial trial litigator with Texas-based law firm Winstead (1996-2000).
When I meet lawyers who have risen through the ranks to General Counsel or other C-level corporate posts, I always try to understand what strategies they've employed throughout their career. Among several common threads I've seen, one continues to appear: flexibility on relocation. Increasingly, the most successful in-house lawyers have been willing to move for a promising opportunity -- sometimes across the country -- sometimes across the globe.
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Salary survey amongst GCC in-house lawyers supports growing optimism in region’s recovery
A survey published today by Elizabeth Williams Search, one of the region’s most respected legal search firms, paints an upbeat picture for the region’s in-house legal profession. With Europe in financial crisis and tremors in the global financial markets showing few signs of abating, the survey results are encouraging not only for the legal profession, but also for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Described as “an indispensable tool for the in-house legal community” by Elias Hayek, Chairman and President of Corporate Counsel Middle East Group, the survey of 361 in-house lawyers from across the GCC focuses not just on pay but also on topics such as redundancies, recruitment, and how optimistic lawyers are feeling about the year ahead.
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From an economic standpoint, there is no denying that 2010 was a challenging time for the legal profession in the Middle East. Far from being immune to the financial crisis as was first touted by the media, the effects of the crisis were felt acutely in the region, particularly among the legal community. Many law firms abandoned the Middle East in their entirety, while others remained but downsized as the reverberations of the crisis continued to shake the profession.
However, it appears that in the wake of this difficult period, the recovering regional markets have instilled newfound optimism in the legal fraternity. This view is supported by a Salary Survey published last week; one of the first surveys to be conducted in the Middle East for the regional legal profession.
The survey, which sought responses from 274 in-house lawyers across the GCC region, encompassed all major industry sectors including banking and finance, oil and gas, and real estate and construction. The results revealed that an overwhelming majority of in-house lawyers are optimistic about the economic future of the GCC, with optimists outnumbering pessimists by five to one.
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