Are you a purple squirrel?
Finding a job often isn’t the biggest challenge for top-level attorneys. Instead, C-suite lawyers and equity partners are often more concerned about finding the right fit. They may be exploring their options in law and adjacent business and executive spaces.
Top-level lawyers often have non-linear career paths that create highly individualized backgrounds, achievements, and career interests.
Those non-linear career paths aren’t a liability; they often lead to the creation of “purple squirrels,” an executive and legal search term used to refer to candidates with a hard to find combination of qualifications. Purple squirrels are highly valued by corporate boards of directors, executive leadership teams, and retained recruiters.
We help you re-imagine what opportunities might be available to you. Our goal is to help you explore, articulate, and leverage your value in the marketplace—and to help you become a target of acquisition. For most clients, this means scrapping old career documents they’ve been cobbling together for decades. We replace them with an elegant career portfolio designed to appeal to the highest levels of organizational leadership, including boards of directors and management committees.
In a handful of cases, these lawyers are looking to downshift, wrap up their careers, or switch to a rewarding encore career before retirement. We can help you with that too.
We’ve been privileged to partner on career coaching and writing projects with some of the top attorneys in country. The Bryce Legal bespoke program is reserved for lawyers who have:
20 to 35 years of experience
Annual base salaries of a minimum of $750,000, with some having multimillion-dollar total compensation packages
Corporate leadership roles such as chief legal officer (CLO) or general counsel (GC), chief operations officer (COO), chief compliance officer (CCO), head of business development, and deputy general counsel (DGC) at Global 100 / Fortune 500 / 1000 companies or their divisions, major subsidiaries, and business lines
Law firm leadership roles such managing partners, practice group leaders, and equity partners in AmLaw 200, Magic Circle, elite boutique practices, and other law firms of all sizes
Government, agency, or institutional leadership roles in organizations such as the military, federal agencies, state government, universities and colleges, and global or national non-profits
How we can help you
Career Services
Just a few of the areas we can help you with are...
Writing and Branding
Résumés and CVs
Cover letters and correspondence
Deal sheets, representative matters, and sample projects
Listings of presentations, speaking engagements, and media mentions
Leadership bios
LinkedIn profiles
Recruiter questionnaires
Marketing and website copy
Business plans
30-60-90 day plans
Professional branding
Identification of value and impact
Immediate Career Decision-Making
Exploring multiple career paths
Working with retained legal and executive search consultants
Moving in-house from a law firm
Demonstrating industry-specific or problem-specific track records
Building career narratives around non-linear work experience
Leveraging early career or military experience
Getting credit for language and cultural fluencies
Changing job markets
Deciding among job offers
Negotiating salary
Downshifting
Long-Term Career Planning
Networking and relationship building
Building and showcasing thought leadership
Positioning for corporate or nonprofit boards
Identifying your best fit roles and employers
Identifying technical or experiential soft spots, as well as building plans to beef them up
Creating and moving toward end-goals
Planning for retirement
Looking forward to giving back and post-retirement fulfillment
Career Coaching
Although we have developed long-term relationships with many of our clients, most of our C-suite and equity partner clients don’t want long-term coaching packages. Instead, they have specific, periodic need for a strategic career adviser and partner. Our career coaching is designed as a simple, elegant solution: just tell us the issues you’d like to discuss, and send us your current résumé, bio, or profile so that we have some context.
Résumé Writing by Screen Share
Our résumé writing by screen share let you get the help you want, faster and at a lower price point. This can be a critical tool for C-suite lawyers and equity partners in a hurry to improve their documents quickly and dramatically. It’s also a great tool for lawyers who simply don’t want the full suite of career documents involved in Bespoke Résumé Writing.
Because we need time to discuss positioning, branding, and overall career narrative, we find c-suite and equity partners prefer to start with 120-Min session in order to make substantial progress on their documents. We also have a 1/2 Day session option.
Bespoke Résumé Writing (Programmatic)
If you need an intensive, deep dive into your career or a more holistic approach to your career narrative / branding, then the bespoke track may be a better option. All lawyers in our bespoke program receive the same suite of primary and secondary deliverables.
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
There are said to be more than eight million C-level executives on LinkedIn, and been reported that more than one third of business executives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia use LinkedIn. Additionally, LinkedIn is now one of top recruiting tools for retained, contingency, and internal recruiters. Therefore, we recommend all lawyers have a strong, polished presence on LinkedIn—even those who are passive or stealth job seekers.
Top-level attorneys face additional issues, including setting a tone of modern, collaborative leadership for their organizations while attracting further career opportunities. We can help you put together a LinkedIn profile that reflects your leadership and value, as well as positions you as a target of acquisition for those purple squirrel opportunities.
Why Work with Us? Sample Testimonials from Top-Tier Lawyers
Why work with Bryce Legal? How can you choose the best lawyer career coach and legal résumé writer for you? Here’s what just a few our clients say. To read hundreds of client reviews and testimonials from attorneys, please see Our Client Testimonials.