The third Roundtable on the Future of Lawyer Hiring, Development, and Advancement was held December 14 in the New York offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and brought together another panel of distinguished industry leaders for a discussion about how we might change and improve the ways law firms recruit new associates in the new economy.

Read a transcript of the December 14 discussion (PDF)
Read an article about the December 14 discussion (PDF)
Watch video of the discussion

December 14 Panelists:

Read biographies of these participants here

• Steve Armstrong, Principal, Armstrong Talent Management
• Phillip Bradley, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Duane Reade
• JoAnne Epps, Dean, Temple University School of Law
• Jodie Garfinkel, Director of Professional, Personnel & Attorney Development, Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Jeffrey K. Haidet, Chairman, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• Uri A. Itkin, Associate, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP
• Mina Jones Jefferson, Assistant Dean and Director, Center for Professional Development, University of Cincinnati College of Law
• James Leipold, Executive Director, NALP, Co-Moderator
• Terri Mottershead, Director of Professional Development, DLA Piper LLP (US)
• Tammy Patterson, CEO & President, NALP Foundation, Co-Moderator
• Elizabeth A. Price, Professional Personnel Partner, Alston & Bird
• Milton Regan, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center
• Michael H. Schill, Dean, University of Chicago Law School
• William Treanor, Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
• Stephanie N. Willson, Chief Professional Resources Officer, McCarthy Tétrault, LLP (Toronto)

NALP thanks the WestLegalEdcenter for educational support of this program.

Additional Roundtable discussions took place on June 24 and September 28. More information from those events, including videos and transcripts, is available:
June 24, 2009
September 28, 2009

An additional Roundtable program is scheduled for March 2010. For more information about these programs, contact NALP's Executive Director, Jim Leipold, at jleipold@nalp.org.