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Wishing you and yours all the best this holiday season and for the New Year!

Wishing You and Yours Every Good Thing for the Holidays and the New Year!

Today’s job market is like none we’ve seen before. For every opportunity, there are hundreds of applicants vying for the position. In an effort to assist job seekers in their search efforts, GLI has developed a power point presentation entitled, “Navigating the Job Hunt Jungle”. This presentation offers critical tips job seekers can immediately utilize to “raise the bar” of their search efforts and get noticed.

GLI also recently reached out to law schools to provide recent graduates alternative career options. In today’s legal market, there are hundreds of unconventional or non-traditional career options for licensed attorneys. After some in-depth research, we compiled a list of website links regarding alternative careers for attorneys and shared them with law schools across the country.

To access the FREE power point presentation, please visit: www.livemeeting.com/cc/communique/joinid=2HNF57&;role=attend&pw= ,
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If you would like to receive our information regarding alternative careers for attorneys, please email us at info@grimeslegal.com.

 Navigating today’s job market is a formidable task, but if you follow Nancy’s advice, you can be successful.  Check out Nancy’s tips here, FOR FREE!

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INSPIRING WORDS FROM STEVE JOBS:

“… You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.

 ”That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Business Week, 1998.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. – Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.

Carmen Fowler
October 2, 1962 – August 24, 2011

Carmen Fowler – Recruiting specialist, will be most remembered for her vibrant, engaging personality and her knack for making people feel special. Her jovial laugh radiated through the office, and her smile would light up any room. We will forever remember how special we felt in her presence and what a valued co-worker and sincere friend she was. Our thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to her family and we will treasure her memory always.

I had a great experience with GLI. Any job search is an emotional roller coaster, but leaving my firm where I started my legal career was unbelievably tough. Nancy was great, not only with the logistical, finding-me-a-job details, but also with the personal stress of the search. I got 3 amazing offers through her, and I doubt I would have had access to those opportunities without her assistance. And, even if I had, I doubt I would have been able to turn them into offers. I think the thing I valued most from my experience is the time we spent getting to know each other before we decided to work together. Talking and laughing with Nancy as a friend allowed us to get to know each other. This enabled Nancy to more accurately ascertain which firms would be the best match for me, while I was much more comfortable trusting Nancy’s vision of the “ideal” new home for me and my practice. I give Nancy my highest recommendation and advise any lawyer who may be contemplating making a switch to give her a call. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Holly, Miami, FL

I find the team at Grimes Legal, Inc. to be professional, responsive and sensitive to the needs of our law firm. Nancy Grimes has been extremely creative and diligent in helping our firm find the right matches each and every time we’ve called. We appreciate the opportunity to work with consummate professionals like those at GLI. I have been more than pleased with the candidates GLI has placed with our firm.

J., Firm Chairman

Grimes Legal, Inc. (GLI) presents a unique approach among legal search firms, one which focuses on craftsmanship. We cover all disciplines within legal placement, which gives us the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects. To us, effective recruiting is truly an art. It is the ability to be creative, to work outside the boxes which constrain others in our industry. We have a devotion to Diversity Placement. We relish the confidence our clients place in us to solve their recruitment needs. We are particularly proud of the fact that when most companies cannot meet their hiring needs through their normal relationships with placement agencies, GLI can. We are focused. We seek to achieve a deep understanding of what both the client and the candidate want, then, through a targeted search, motivate otherwise happy candidates to move to these select locations.

Many clients have been on our books for decades for one reason – WE GET RESULTS!! They have come to us with a need time and time again, and we have filled that need with the best talent available in the market.

LISTEN  EXECUTE  DELIVER

These are the three keys to success in legal placement. At GLI, we listen intently to both the client and the candidate to determine exactly what each is looking for. This background information - the wants, needs, and requirements of the new hire – forms the image of the ideal candidate by which we will conduct our search. If these steps aren’t properly executed, the candidate will not be an ideal match.

In today’s market, to stay on top, it is imperative that we execute the fundamentals. We at GLI are confident that when others are unable to get the job done, we can.

CONTACT US TODAY…YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!!

Carlos Riaz is the Project Coordinator for the New York, NY market. After graduating college with a degree in Human Resource Management, Carlos spent 4 years working in the HR department of a large law firm in New York. During his tenure in human resources, Carlos discovered his favorite aspect of the job was his interaction with the attorneys. His “people skills” and his love for the legal arena were two characteristics that drew Carlos to legal recruiting. His desire to work with a top-notch, well-respected recruiting firm where he would have an opportunity to assist attorneys in reaching their career goals led him to GLI.

Carlos’ human resource background and law firm experience assist him in coaching attorneys throughout their job search process. Carlos takes a personal interest in helping each candidate determine what their “perfect law firm job” is and then strive to locate that opportunity. “Every candidate’s “dream job” is different, so it is imperative that I listen intently to get a full understanding of what he/she is looking for.

Carlos was attracted to GLI because of the firm’s principled and progressive methodology. “I remain impressed by the level of personal attention GLI recruiters gives their candidates. These attorneys genuinely have representatives working on their behalf in the marketplace; people going the extra mile to locate opportunities that not just met but exceeded their expectations each and every time. THAT is recruiting at its best”.

Carlos is an avid arts buff, so when he’s not working with candidates, you can usually find him checking out the newest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the latest opera at the Metropolitan Opera, an interest he shares with Maria, his wife of 7 years. Carlos and Maria also stay very busy with their twin 3-year-old sons, Javier and Miguel.