Seckler Legal Coaching — About

Stephen E. Seckler

Stephen Seckler is an entrepreneurial attorney who has spent the last 20 years helping lawyers with their careers. He coaches attorneys on how to incorporate effective business development and marketing techniques into their practices. He works with ambitious associates and partners to help them find the right mix of practice development tools. He counsels a broad cross section of the bar on a range of career issues.

For four years, he served as Managing Director of the Boston office of BCG Attorney Search. He has a broad network of professional relationships with managing partners, department chairs and leaders of the bar. Prior to launching the Boston office of BCG Attorney Search in 2005, he spent eight years building his own consulting firm, Seckler Legal Consulting. During his time as a consultant, he recruited partners, associates and in-house counsel. He also coached dozens of lawyers on a variety of career and marketing issues. His coaching clients came from all segments of the legal community from senior partners at large firms to sole practitioners.

Stephen Seckler maintains a blog on career and marketing issues facing the legal community at Counsel to Counsel, which is an affiliate of the Law.Com Network. Counsel to Counsel has twice been named to the ABA Journal’s Blawg100, the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.

For six years, Stephen Seckler published an electronic newsletter, Seckler’s Legal Digest which provided the bar with links to useful career and marketing resources. He facilitated a monthly career roundtable for the Career Services Committee of the New England Corporate Counsel Association and sat on the Boston Bar Association’s Committee on Work/Life Balance. He was also an active member of the Steering Committee of the Solo and Small Firm Practice Section of the BBA.

Stephen Seckler is a 1988 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. He has devoted his entire legal career to helping lawyers get the most from their careers. From 1989 through 1996, he worked as a program attorney for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, where he was responsible for developing hundreds of professional education programs for a leading CLE provider. He speaks and writes frequently on career and marketing issues and authors a column for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly entitled Career Consult. He is qualified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (he is an ENFP) and is interested in law office technology, management and entrepreneurship.