Valerie A. Fontaine earned her JD from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) and her BA, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, from UCLA. She was on the Editorial Board of COMM/ENT, a Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law. Valerie practiced law with a prominent Los Angeles law firm and entered the legal search profession in 1981. Valerie is past Secretary to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC) and former Chair of its Newsletter Committee. She currently serves as a consultant to NALSC headquarters.
“You must appease the Fee God!” my first boss in legal recruiting insisted. He meant that, since the client is the one paying the fee, we must make the client happy. Forty years later, I remember those words and do my best to put them into practice. Candidate services Although recruiters work for the employer-client,…
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Emojis, those little pictures we use in all types of online communications, can convey emotional context that words alone cannot and can completely change the meaning of a sentence. They’ve become commonplace, even in business communications, although it’s debatable whether that’s wise. Their precise meaning is open to interpretation, depending upon a number of factors,…
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If, like most people, you find coping with existence in the real world confusing enough, the advent of the metaverse is mind-blowing. But it’s here and lawyers are venturing into this brave new world or—more accurately—worlds. Metaverses combine virtual reality and augmented reality devices and blur the lines between the physical and digital. Through visual,…
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As we ease out of pandemic protocols, the New Normal won’t be the same as the Old Normal—nor should it be. We’re slowly returning to the office, or at least some of us are going back some of the time. We’re beginning to travel to conferences and business meetings, although not quite as often as…
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