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May 1, 2020

Zoomin’ in on Kathy Morris ’75

Career Coaching in View of COVID-19

Kathy Morris is an attorney counselor and founder of Under Advisement, a premier career advisory service for lawyers, based in Chicago and operating nationwide via technology.  She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1975 and from the University of Michigan in 1971. She has tried cases in courtrooms from Hawaii to Massachusetts. In 1985, she was asked to serve as the director of placement and career counseling for Northwestern University School of Law where she was a member of the teaching faculty, and has since gained decades of experience guiding law schools, law students, lawyers, law firms and other legal employers.

In addition, Morris pioneered in-house lawyer training and career development initiatives at the national law firms of Katten Muchin & Zavis (now Katten Muchin Rosenman), Gardner, Carton & Douglas (now Faegre Drinker) and Sidley Austin. She also launched the Chicago Law Firm Training Consortium and was a charter board member of the national Professional Development Consortium.

In 1996, the American Bar Association selected Morris to head its Continuing Legal Education Center to maximize the technological delivery of programming. In 2000, she created and directed the Career Resource Center of the ABA and authored three ABA career manuals for lawyers. In 2015, she was selected to chair the board of the ABA’s then-new, then-named Legal Career Central.

Morris’ monthly advice column, “Career Question,” ran in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for over fifteen years. She has been the sole featured career counselor of the Chicago Bar Association’s multi-faceted Career Advancement Program since 2013 and, in 2019, was invited into the membership of the prestigious Forbes Coaches Council.

Having expanded the reach of Under Advisement adding video counseling to the array of available options, Morris makes job search advice, career counseling and consulting services for individuals, law firms, legal departments and law schools accessible, affordable and effective. She is a frequent speaker, author and served on the advisory board of Northeastern Law’s Women in the Law Conference.

Follow Morris on Twitter @LawyerCounselor and view her newest offering, Just A Minute!, a one-minute video answering professional development and legal job search questions. She can be reached via underadvisement.com or [email protected].