Executive Development
Resume:
office: *** Park Avenue, Suite ****, NY, NY, ***** * Home: 9 Long
view drive Scarsdale, New York 10853
office phone: 212-***-**** * Home Phone 917-***-**** . E-mail
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ElenA RAND-Kaspi
Education
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY EHRENKRANZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CLINICAL SOCIAL
WORK, M.S.W. 2007.
NYU School of Social Work Academic Scholarship Award, Spring 2005.
INSTITUTE FOR CAREER COACH TRAINING, Certified Career Management
Coach, 2004.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, Washington, DC
J.D., 1993; Dean's List: Fall 1991, Spring 1992.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton NJ
A.B., 1990, Near Eastern Studies, Magna Cum Laude.
Executive Coaching AND CAREER Consulting eXPERIENCE:
LAWSCOPE COACHING, President and Owner NY, NY
2004-Present
Founder of prominent executive career coaching and consulting
company that provides career coaching, professional development
workshops and business development partner retreats to AmLaw 100
law firms and investment banks throughout the United States.
Prolific writer, speaker and moderator on career topics relating
to business development, networking, legal professional
development and practice sustainability. Featured presenter and
key note speaker at multiple NALP, City Bar of NYC, NYS Bar
Association events. PLI faculty member.
Retained as outside consultant for system design and execution of
law firm executive coaching programs as well professional
development workshops in connection with firm-wide objectives such
as: business development, networking, talent promotion, and
effective communication.
Executive coaching projects have also included design and
execution of specific coaching programs and workshops focused on
supporting women's and diversity initiatives; namely, LawScope's
Maternity and Flex-Time Coaching Program and Lawyer Transition
Mentor-Coaching Program.
Extensive experience providing comprehensive career assessments,
including Myers-Briggs assessments, as well as individual
executive career coaching services to attorneys, partners and
general counsels regarding career strategy, business development,
networking and professional goal setting.
Coaching and workshop topics have included issues relating to
professional sustainability and growth, maximizing professional
visibility, developing networking skills, improving communication
skills, supporting business development initiatives, maximizing
and leveraging mentoring relationships, managing workplace
conflicts, team management and skill building, navigating career
transitions, and achieving work/life balance.
Legal recruiting Experience
SMYTHE, MASTERSON & JUDD, Director NY, NY
March 2003-Feburary 2004; June 1997-June 1999
Extensive experience in all phases and aspects of executive legal
search. Successful in recruiting and placing top credentialed
attorneys with Am Law 100 firms, Fortune 100 Companies and
blue-chip financial institutions both nationally and
internationally.
Responsible for recruiting and developing relationships with
candidates, initiating and promoting client-candidate relations,
scheduling and guiding interview process as well as negotiating
offers and closing candidates. Also responsible for client
marketing, management, and development. Managerial
responsibilities included developing and maintaining indices
regarding law firm salary/compensation packages, indices regarding
associate/partner development, promotion and job satisfaction and
supervising the process by which client needs and current job
openings are updated.
THE PETERSAN GROUP, Director NY, NY
June 1999- March 2003
Extensive experience in all phases and aspects of executive legal
search. Successfully represented and placed numerous corporate,
litigation and intellectual property attorneys with law firms,
corporations and financial institutions both nationally and
internationally. Responsible for placing attorneys with AmLaw 100
law firms and Fortune 100 companies in areas of mergers and
acquisitions, securities, project finance, structured finance, and
intellectual property.
Legal Experience
HERRICK FEINSTEIN, Litigation Associate NY, NY
May 1995-January 1997
Extensive hands-on experience in all aspects of litigation in
connection with general commercial litigation and international
art recovery and sports litigation matters. Drafted briefs,
motions, appeals, pleadings and made several court appearances.
Drafted the adopted modifications to the Unidroit Convention on
the International Return of Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural
Objects submitted on behalf of the Republic of Turkey for the
Unidroit Diplomatic Convention Conference in Rome in June 1995.
Also responsible for marketing and promoting the firm's art law
practice within the international art community.
LOWENSTEIN, SANDLER, KOHL, FISHER &BOYLAN,
Commercial Litigation Associate
Roseland, NJ
September 1993-April 1995
Hands-on litigation experience including taking depositions,
arguing pretrial motions and court appearances in both state and
federal court in connection with litigation matters arising from
habeas corpus death-row, petitions, child custody and eviction
disputes, insurance coverage, breach of contract, products
liability, securities and bankruptcy disputes.
Professional Associations & membership
Princeton University, Alumni Council Committee for Career
Development and Advancement, Board Member.
Pace University Law School, New Directions Program, Honorary
Advisor Board Member.
InMotion, Former Executive Board Member, Co-Secretary.
Co-Chair, "Women on the Move" 2008 Symposium, New York State Bar
Association.
Committee for Women in the Law, New York State Bar Association.
Subcommittee for Lawyers in Transition, New York State Bar
Association.
Committee for Career Advancement & Management, City Bar
Association of New York.
Committee for Law Practice Management, New York State Bar
Association.
National Association of Social Workers, New York Chapter, Licensed
Member
International Coaching Federation, New York Chapter.
Languages
Fluent in Italian and Hebrew. Highly conversant in Spanish.
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