Nomination Instructions 2012 PAR Flex Success Award

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2, 2012

 

The attorney nominee should meet the following criteria:

  • Is currently a partner in a PAR member law firm;

  • Has worked for a year or more as a partner on a schedule that is 80% or less of the minimum billable hours required of a partner working standard hours;

  • Can identify a client who knows that the attorney is working a reduced schedule and is crucial to the attorney’s success to receive the award with the attorney at the 2012 PAR conference.

Both the attorney and a representative of the client must be available to attend the award luncheon on March 14, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Instructions:

  1. The law firm nominee may be nominated by a PAR member firm or may self-nominate. NOTE: The award goes to an individual attorney and representative of a client — not to a law firm.
  2. Please email the nomination as a Word attachment (not a pdf) that is no more than three single-spaced pages, excluding the resume and include the following information:


    • The nominee’s name, firm name, contact information and whether he or she is an equity or non-equity partner;
    • The nominee’s current resume or equivalent (a link to information on a firm’s website is acceptable);
    • A description of the nominee’s reduced hours arrangement including the percentage of full time worked, length of time on the schedule, and how the hours are worked (i.e. shorter days, fewer days per week, annualized hours or other);
    • A specific discussion of the reasons why the nominee’s arrangement is considered successful;
    • The name and contact information of a representative of the client with whom the attorney proposes to share the award;
    • How the client contributed to making this a successful arrangement.
    • If not a self-nomination, your name, experience with and relationship to the nominee;

Please email the nomination to:
Linda Marks
Director of Special Projects
marksl@uchastings.edu
Phone: 415-581-8826

All emailed nominations will be acknowledged within 24 hours. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, please call to make sure it was received.

Finalists for the award may be interviewed by a PAR staff member.

The winners of the award will be notified by Feburary 10, 2012 and each will receive a free registration for the PAR Annual Conference which will take place March 14, 2012 at Crowell & Moring in Washington, DC.

Profiles of the winners will appear on the PAR website.
Thank you for the nomination!