Stay-at-Home Parents Returning to the Workforce – Lawyers Club of San Diego CLE

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On August 2nd, Montage Legal’s Kandy Williams spoke on panel for the Lawyers Club of San Diego about parent attorneys returning to the workforce after taking time off to raise children.   This CLE put on by the Lawyers Club’s Balance Commitee provided great advice to stay-at-home lawyer parents who are thinking about getting back into the work-force, whether it’s through freelance work, work at a law firm, or government work.   The panelists were as follows:

Joanna de Vos – Associate, Estate and Elder Law, Stillwell & Associates
Mara Elliott – Deputy City Attorney for San Diego
Kandy Williams – Attorney, Corporate Transactions and General Litigation, Williams Law Firm/Montage Legal Group
Jennifer Wilson – Associate, Estate Planning and Asset Protection at
Bohm, Matsen, Kegel & Aguilera LLP
For advice on how to get back into the workforce after taking off several years to raise children, feel free to e-mail panelist Kandy Williams of Williams Law Firm and Montage Legal Group at [email protected].   Montage Legal’s Kate Mayer Mangan interviewed speakers Joanna De Vos and Kandy Williams about their experiences getting back into the workforce.  Please see the video below.
 

Kandy Williams Biograpy

Kandy Williams attended the University of Mississippi and obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she served as Literary Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review. During law school, Kandy also won several moot court awards, including Best Oral Advocate in the school’s Dalsimer Competition and as well as awards in national moot court competitions. After law school, Kandy clerked for the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Memphis, Tennessee.

She then began practicing law in Nashville in the corporate and securities group at Waller Landsden Dortch and Davis LLP. She then returned to California where she joined the corporate group at Snell and Wilmer, LLP. At Snell and Wilmer, Kandy negotiated mergers and acquisitions, prepared copyright and trademark registrations, and worked on corporate-related litigation matters.

Kandy then joined Brobeck Phleger and Harrison LLP’s corporate and securities group, where she negotiated venture capital financings on both the venture capital fund side and the company side in the high technology and emerging growth sectors. After taking some time off to be at home with her two children, Kandy relaunched her legal career by consulting with entrepreneurs and start-up companies and eventually started her own law firm. She affiliated with Montage Legal Group in early 2010.

In addition to her legal career, Kandy sits on the Board of Directors and the Governance Committee of Hope University, which provides an arts-centered curriculum for adults with developmental disabilities.

Kandy was recently interviewed by “Critical Mass: The Radio Show” to talk about how entrepreneurs could benefit from engaging a business attorney in the early stages of the lives of their business. Click here to listen to her radio interview.

Kandy has also been featured by iRelaunch, a company started by Carol Fishman Cohen, the well-known author of “Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-At-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work.” iRelaunch produces career reentry programming, events, and content for employers, universities, organizations and individuals. Kandy was featured as a “Success Story” for getting back into the legal market after taking time off to raise her children.

 

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1 Comment

  1. This looks both interesting and important. Is the entire program available on the web? If not – would you consider redo'ing and YouTube'ing? There is a HUGE need for free information such as this, and you may drive a bit of traffic to your firm with it!

    ( And I have a motivation – I link to free CLE from here http://4freecle.blogspot.com/ so the more content, the better for my hobby! )

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