Frank has almost 30 years of experience interviewing, hiring, and evaluating lawyers and law students. He has placed partners, department heads, practice group leaders, and associates with more than 20 leading national firms in Chicago, Washington, and other leading markets. He has advised more than 20 AmLaw 100 firms on lateral and entry-level hiring, attorney compensation and has trained hundreds of campus and office interviewers for leading firms in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and other markets.
His views on hiring have been published in the National Law Journal, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, ABA Journal, Chicago Lawyer, The American Lawyer, Legal Times of Washington, New Jersey Lawyer, Texas Lawyer, The Miami Business Review, and other media.
A 1977 graduate of the
University of Michigan Law School, Frank joined
Shearman & Sterling in New York as a litigation associate. He argued major appeals in banking, tax, takeover, and shareholder derivative matters. In 1986, he joined Chicago's
McDermott, Will & Emery as a litigation partner and served on the hiring committee for six years, chaired the summer program in 1988-89, and served as national hiring partner from 1990-1992.
Frank has presented more than 80 programs sponsored by the Offices of Career Services at numerous law schools, including Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, Duke, and Georgetown, among others. He has presented many programs for hiring partners and placement professionals, including at nearly a dozen NALP Annual Conferences, IOMA seminars and others.
Kimball Professional Management advises leading law firms, partners, associates, and law schools on lateral and
entry-level hiring including lateral placements, compensation and hiring strategy, training interviewers, and counseling lawyers and students. Kimball Professional Management is the only search and consulting firm in the nation headed by a former hiring partner of one of the nation's twenty largest law firms.
