My CV
Summary
Tracy Thrower Conyers is a seasoned attorney who uses her background as a securities litigator and tech entrepreneur to counsel tech-related attorneys on career strategies and opportunities, as well as to help law firms and corporations find and recruit the best tech talent to meet their objectives.
Tracy is also a proud social media geek. She writes and shares regularly on topics related to attorney practice building, digital reputation enhancement and marketing with social media.
Specialties
Social media for lawyers, legal marketing, online reputation, web marketing, legal recruiting, legal search, legal placement, law firms, lawyers, attorneys, attorney recruiting, legal industry trends, law partners, associates, legal industry news, legal headhunter, blawging, blogging, LinkedIn lawyers, LinkedIn for attorneys, LinkedIn for law firms, Twitter for lawyers, Twitter for attorneys, Twitter for law firms, B2B marketing, B2C marketing, legal hiring, corporate in-house, tech attorneys.
Experience
Blogger
AttorneysOnTheMove.com
Legal Services industry
January 2010 – Present
Tracy Thrower Conyers moderates AttorneysOnTheMove.com, a resource for attorneys whose careers are on an upward trajectory. Follow AttorneysOnTheMove.com for information useful to practice and profile building, including news, marketing information, industry trends commentary and the scoop on career opportunities for the upwardly bound.
Blogger, Columnist & Author
PluggedInLawyer.com
Legal Services industry
September 2007 – Present
Tracy Thrower Conyers moderates PluggedInLawyer.com, a “blawg” dedicated to social media by lawyers, for lawyers and about lawyers. Follow PluggedInLawyer.com for tips and tricks to help expand your digital footprint and build/preserve your reputation as a thought leader in the legal world.
Legal Search & Placement Consultant
Lucas Group
Staffing and Recruiting industry
October 2008 – November 2011
Legal talent acquisition consultant, specializing in the placement of business- and tech-related attorneys, partners and groups. Tracy’s homebase was Los Angeles, but she worked closely with a network of highly experienced legal recruiters in all major markets.
Real Estate industry
2002 – 2007 (5 years)
Together with another woman entrepreneur, Tracy founded this technology company offering web-based marketing tools to real estate agents & brokers. Company’s flagship product brought large MLS residential listings databases to private websites & employed innovative tools to manipulate the data to build client relationships with online consumers. Through the application of common sense principles to sophisticated web technologies, IDXdirect was evangelizing Web 2.0 philosophies and practices before anybody was paying attention to the idea.
Senior Fraud Investigator for the Professional Liability Legal Team
Resolution Trust Corporation (FDIC)
Legal Services industry
1993 – 1995 (2 years)
Member of in-house legal team pursuing professional liability and fraud claims on behalf of the federal government as receiver for failed savings & loan institutions. Cases focused on former senior officers, directors, borrowers and other providers of professional services to failed banking institutions.
Legal Services industry
1988 – 1989 (1 year)
As part of a legal/financial team, participated in launching investment banking activities for $10 billion financial services corporation. Assisted in drafting 10-K’s and 10-Q’s, acted as corporate secretary for mutual fund subsidiary and researched financial regulatory issues and investment hedging instruments.
