Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)

Current

Executive Director at On Call Counsel

Past

Managing Director at BCG Attorney Search
Associate Attorney at Nixon Peabody

Education

University of San Francisco School of Law
San Jose State University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Peter Smith (LION)

Connections

500 connections

Industry

Legal Services

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Summary

My five gifts to all of you:

1) www.oncallcounsel.com

How I save GCs and lawyers of every stripe time, money, and provide a better product than through standard delivery systems.

2) www.adarguendo.blogspot.com

How you can start learning now how to position yourself for your new (or impending) platform change (that's 'pc'-talk for job search!).

3) Get instant access to recent job openings for contract attorney position:

http://twitter.com/OnCallCounsel

4) Find out more about getting professional coaching in your job search:

http://twitter.com/ninjalawcoach

5) Up to the minute reporting on job search strategy:

http://twitter.com/adarguendo

OCC's Mission: Direct hire and contract hire placement for lawyers in law firms and in-house legal departments.

My Position: Executive Director, On Call Counsel, a 46 year old company providing direct hire, contract attorney and temp-to-perm placement.

Pete's Mission Statement:

(a) Bring absolute professionalism, efficiency, thorough market knowledge, and strong working relationships with all premier law firms to all candidates and legal employers alike.

(b) Bring insight into the practice of law as a unique career path, mastery and passion for professional development for attorneys, profound understanding of the challenges facing legal professionals, and a powerful sense of advocacy for candidates.

(c) Understand, package, and express a candidate's skills and a legal employer's attributes clearly, succintly and powerfully through oral and written advocacy.

Conclusion:

Most important from a candidate's perspective, Pete consistent application of relentless drive, analytical abilities, and considerable human insight to help each candidate discover and hone his or her personal and career goals and to finding each candidate the best possible position. This approach to a legal search is sufficiently unique to merit reading the following further explanation.

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Specialties:

Direct placement and contract placement in law firms and in-house legal departments globally. Legal career coaching globally.

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Experience

Executive Director

On Call Counsel

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Legal staffing company. Nearly 50 years serving the Fortune 500. Fifteen years serving their lawyers. We know staffing. We know people. It's not just who you know--it's how you treat them.
Managing Director

BCG Attorney Search

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Legal Services industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )

Managed the SF office of this nation-wide direct hire firm.
Associate Attorney

Nixon Peabody

(Partnership; Law Practice industry)

1997 — 2005 (8 years )

Commercial litigator including anti-trust, UCL, complex litigation and coverage.

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Education

University of San Francisco School of Law

JD , LAW , 1995 — 1998
San Jose State University

BS , International Business , 1993 — 1995

Additional Information

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Interests:

reading. blogging. reading. recruiting. reading. cold-calling. reading. talking to lawyers.

Peter Smith (LION) (psmith@oncallcounsel.com)’s Groups:

Santa Clara Bar Association High Technology Section, San Francisco Bar Association, St. Thomas Moore Society, Academia Lodge

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