Kathleen Brady is principal of Brady & Associates Career Planners, LLC, a firm specializing in career development training programs, and Kanarek & Brady, an outplacement career consulting firm specializing in the legal community. She has more than 20 years of experience delivering career development seminars and counseling attorneys and legal administrators on professional development issues and job search strategies. She is a recognized expert on topics including career planning, oral communication skills, networking strategies, interviewing techniques, and recovering from a layoff, as well as business management skills such as delegating, delivering feedback and effective mentoring. Brady started her career in the Placement Office at Columbia Law School and went on to serve as assistant dean of career services at Fordham University School of Law, national director of staff recruitment and development at Jackson Lewis and manager of professional development at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP. She is also a past president of the National Association for Law Placement and a founding member of the NALP Foundation for Research and Education. She has authored two books, Navigating Detours on the Road to Success: A Lawyer’s Guide to Career Management (Inkwater Press, 2005) and Jobs for Lawyers, Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today’s Legal Marketplace (Impact Publications, 1996), and is a contributing author to the ABA’s Law Practice Today, The Complete Lawyer and the New York Law Journal.