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Looking Back, Looking Forward: How COVID-19 Is Changing Career Development and Training

March 9, 2021

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If hindsight is 20/20, then 2020 has given us much to look back at in the rearview mirror. In this lively, one-hour webcast produced by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) exclusively for PDC members, moderator Timothy M. Henderson leads a roundtable of professional development experts as they reflect on the effect COVID-19 had on training and professional career development for lawyers this past year. 

Topics include the hurdles and surprises of moving the practice of law into the virtual world, what worked (and what didn’t) for their legal staff’s training and development needs, and which of those changes they believe are here to stay. 

If you’ve wrestled with how best to keep your organization’s commitment to recruit, train, develop, and maintain your lawyers’ careers from a distance, you won’t want to miss this illuminating webinar. 

Moderator 
Timothy M. Henderson
Chief Recruitment & Professional Development Officer
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Washington, D.C. 

Panelists
Amy S. Hancock (Chair, PDC Nominations Committee)
Director of Legal Talent
McDowell Hetherington
Houston, TX

Betsy W. Hults
CLE & Lawyer Training Manager
Jones Day
Atlanta, GA

Gina A. Piemonte
Chief of the Professional Development Division 
Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender
Chicago, IL

 

Learn more about our speakers:

Amy Hancock is the Director of Legal Talent and HR at the Houston law firm of McDowell Hetherington. Amy’s 20-plus-year AMLaw 100 law firm career has been focused on recruiting and maximizing the development and value of the talent capital of her firm’s attorneys and has spanned all areas of an attorney’s career progression and life cycle, including but not limited to: recruiting, orientation and integration, training, lawyer mentoring, development and retention (career counseling, work allocation/utilization, performance appraisals/evaluations, promotion-to-partnership), pro bono, alumni engagement, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. She is a nationally-known public speaker, author and leader in the Attorney Recruiting and Professional Development industry. 

Timothy Henderson has served as the Chief Recruitment & Professional Development Officer at Finnegan since 2011, where he oversees the attorney and student talent management functions for the global IP law firm. Prior to Finnegan, Tim was Holland & Hart’s Director of Recruitment & Professional Development (and for a period time, Interim Director of Marketing). In addition to working as an administrator in AmLaw 200 law firms, Tim served as Assistant Dean of the Career Development Center at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He earned his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law and practiced law for several years in Kansas and Missouri.

Betsy Hults is the Firmwide CLE & Lawyer Training Manager for Jones Day, based in the Atlanta office.  She has been with Jones Day for 37 years, starting as a paralegal and working her way up through the ranks in several administrative positions.  She has held her current role with CLE & Lawyer Training for 10 years. She has a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University and a paralegal certificate from the Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia.  She is a member of ACLEA, the PDC and has worked closely with NITA on Jones Day programming for more than two decades. 

 

Gina A. Piemonte started her career with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office in 1991, where she variously worked in the Juvenile and Traffic divisions before her transfer to the Felony Trial Division. In 2004 Ms. Piemonte was promoted to the Homicide Task Force, where she spent 15 years working on high-profile cases, including the case of Micheail Ward, the first fully televised jury trial in Cook County. She represented clients accused of both capital and non-capital murder. In 2019, Ms. Piemonte entered management as the Deputy Chief of the Felony Trial Division; currently she serves as Chief of the Professional Development Division.