| Air Date: |
This is the archived version of a program presented on March 9, 2023. |
| Speakers: |
Mike Race, Managing Partner, ZSA Western Canada
Amrit Rai, Partner, ZSA
Jennifer Lau, Assistant Director of Professional Resources, Cassels
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| Format: |
Webinar Recording |
| CPD Hours: |
1.5 Hours of Approved Continuing Professional Development in BC.
Viewing of this recording will provide you with 1.5 hours of the ethics, professional responsibility and practice management component for your Law Society of BC reporting.
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SYNOPSIS
This webinar is a part 2 of the CBABC Talent Management Series.
Legal employers and lawyers each have expectations about their working relationship and this impacts how employers to recruit and retain legal talent. Lawyers of today want more: financial stability, work-life balance, flexible work options and a law firm that prioritizes diversity and equity for its employees. In this session, our speakers discussed how to develop a recruitment strategy that fits today’s market and how to retain lawyers for the long-term. This session is ideal for small-medium sized firm employers and leaders.
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
About Mike Race
Mike Race is Managing Partner, ZSA Western Canada, with over 15 years of legal search and recruitment experience. He focuses on acquiring high performing Partners, Associates and teams for law firms, and In-house Counsel at all levels for Canadian and international corporations, and public sector bodies.
Prior to joining ZSA in 2016, Mike was a Director at one of Australia’s leading specialist executive search firms focused solely on the Legal profession. Mike spent over a decade in Australia helping to grow legal businesses – both private practice law firms and in-house legal teams – through placing lawyers and facilitating law firm mergers. Previously Mike was a commercial litigation lawyer at Australia’s largest law firm.
Mike has lived in Canada before and completed his final semester of law school at the University of British Columbia. Mike is married to a Canadian and his family decided to make the move here permanently, shortly before joining ZSA.
As head of the Western Canadian operations for ZSA for the last 5 years, Mike has led a large number of successful searches for in-house lawyers within corporate in-house legal departments, public sector organizations, and law firms. Since joining ZSA, Mike has personally placed over 150 lawyers, not including his previous decade of legal recruitment experience in Australia.
About Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai is a Partner at ZSA with 10 years’ recruitment and headhunting experience.
Prior to joining ZSA, Amrit acquired her legal background at a regional law firm in the UK. When she moved to BC, she gained experience in executive search and headhunting, working for an international practice.
Amrit joined ZSA in 2015; she combines her experience gained from private practice and her strong inter-personal skills as a legal consultant, sourcing, headhunting and recruiting junior and senior lawyers for both firm and in-house positions in British Columbia and Alberta.
About Jennifer Lau
Jennifer Lau (she/her/hers) is the Assistant Director of Professional Resources at Cassels. In this role, Jenn is involved in all aspects of the recruitment, training, and performance development of the firm’s summer and articling students in its Calgary and Vancouver offices. Jenn is passionate about helping law students and new graduates transition to the professional workforce. Prior to joining Cassels, Jenn spent over a decade at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, where she served as a career coach to thousands of law students and alumni. She led Allard Law’s Career Services Office in shifting its focus to emphasize a strengths-based approach, and finds joy in helping law students and new lawyers secure work that aligns with their strengths and values. Jenn also served as Acting Assistant Dean of Students at Allard Law in the spring and summer of 2020, where she led the delivery of front-line student academic support during the transition to online learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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