January/February 2004
The Cambridge Chronicle
As you know we have been sending to our clients on a monthly basis a generalized newsletter that typically reports
on HR and staffing industry news. We know that most of you delete this before ever reading it and we understand-it is not directly related to our industry—legal staffing. With that being said, we have decided to publish our own
newsletter The Cambridge Chronicle. It will be sent to our clients every other month via e-mail and will have news
and information specific to legal staffing and more specifically to Atlanta. We will also publish what is new with
Cambridge, for example changes in the benefits we offer our temporary employees and steps we take to improve our
services.
If you have any suggestions on topics you would like to see, please e-mail us at
jlowe@cambridgeprofessionals.com. It is our constant goal to provide not only the best candidates and service, but
to serve as consultants to our clients.
First Annual Salary Survey
A New Division at Cambridge
In February you will receive a relatively lengthy
survey from us and we ask that you PLEASE
participate. We are confidentially collecting salary,
benefit, and hiring information and will be publishing
a report based on this survey in the March edition of
The Cambridge Chronicle. A free report with more
detailed information will be mailed to all participants.
The more of you that participate, the more accurate
and useful a tool it will be for everyone. While there
is some salary information out there, it is not nearly
as comprehensive or specific to Atlanta to prove
useful. If you have questions or suggestions on what
you would like to see gathered in the survey, please
contact
us
before
February
13th
at
jlowe@cambridgeprofessionals.com.
CambridgeFinancial is a new division of
Cambridge Professional Group. CambridgeStaff and
CambridgeCounsel have provided high quality legal
staffing services for over 18 years. Now we are
taking our experience and know how, and creating
the same high quality temporary and permanent
placement services with a focus on financial
professionals. In order to preserve a specialized focus
in legal and financial staffing, we have created a
separate and distinct division to focus on financial
staffing. This will ensure we never dilute our
professional focus and specialization of our business
units.
A New Name and A New Look
So far 2004 has brought some exciting changes for
Cambridge. We have decided that with the addition
of a financial division, we will be changing the name
of our parent company. CambridgeFinancial will
join CambridgeStaff and CambridgeCounsel as a
member of Cambridge Professional Group.
CambridgeStaff and CambridgeCounsel will continue
to provide temporary and permanent legal staffing to
Atlanta's top law firms and corporations, and Janelle
Lowe will continue to manage both legal divisions as
Vice President of Legal Services.
As you all know, over the years Cambridge has
transformed itself from a “pure” staffing company
focusing on legal secretaries, to a company that
provides paralegals, attorneys, and managers—on
both a temporary and permanent basis. With these
changes in service and focus, we are updating our
“look” to reflect the professional services we now
provide. We hope you like it!!
Dave Semple has joined Cambridge as Vice
President of Financial Services and Meg Forsyth has
joined as a Recruiting Manager. Dave and Meg have
over 20 years of financial recruiting and staffing
experience in the Atlanta market. You will find both
are highly skilled staffing professionals and
understand the needs of the financial professionals
they work with. CambridgeFinancial’s services are
extensive and include, but are not limited to, the
following professional skills:
CFO/Controller / Assistant Controllers
Director of Finance / Financial Analyst
Accounting Manager / Accountants
Internal Auditors Tax Accountants
Credit /Collections Manager
Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable
Payroll Managers / Payroll Coordinators
Investment /Brokerage Positions
Administrative / Clerical Support
Treasurer
CambridgeProfessionals.com
Website
For the next several weeks our website will be under
construction. With the addition of the new division,
the name change and our new look, we are taking this
opportunity to make other improvements to our
website. Our goal for the website is to provide
candidates and clients with a substantive and useful
resource. We want you to be proud that Cambridge
is your staffing partner!
New Recruiters join Cambridge
Cambridge is proud to announce that Amy Brown
and Marjorie Younger have joined us as recruiters.
Amy Brown has joined CambridgeCounsel as an
Attorney Recruiter. Prior to joining Cambridge, Amy
was an Executive Recruiter with two leading
executive search firms in the Atlanta area. She has
over 10 years of executive search experience and has
successfully
completed
both
retained
and
contingency searches for a variety of companies
including:
BellSouth, Georgia Pacific, Turner
Broadcasting,
Cox
Communications,
MCI/WorldCom, PricewaterhouseCoopers and NSI.
Some of her most significant national searches have
included: a Senior Investment Strategist for a NYC
investment boutique, Chief Financial Officer for a
multi-billion dollar division of a telecommunications
company, Vice President of Finance for a Fortune
500 manufacturer, Tax Partner for a top tier public
accounting firm, and a Tax Attorney.
Marjorie
Alexia
Younger
has
joined
CambridgeStaff with several years of legal recruiting
and legal marketing experience. Prior to joining
Cambridge, Marjorie worked as a legal recruiter for
an international work solutions corporation here in
Atlanta. She also worked in New York for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, in their
Marketing Department.
Marjorie is an active
member of the Georgia Association of Paralegals and
a former member of the New York Chapter of the
Legal Marketing Association (2000-2002).
A New Specialty
While we have always staffed document, copying,
and file clerks—we have never had a dedicated
resource committed to this area on a full-time
basis…. well something else at Cambridge has
changed.
We have promoted Jenny Voigt, who has served as a
Recruiting Assistant for the last year at Cambridge to
a full time Recruiter specializing in the temporary
and permanent placement of clerks. If you have a
need for a clerk or have questions regarding this
service, please contact Jenny or your current
Cambridge contact.
New Temporary Benefits Coming
in February!!!!!
Starting in February we will be offering an additional
level of health coverage for our long-term temporary
employees. Until now we have always offered heath
insurance reimbursement of $100 per month to our
temporary employees to apply to the insurance carrier
of their choice. In addition, they already receive
eligibility in our 401K, holiday and vacation pay.
Our new coverage will allow long-term temps (on
assignment 6 months or longer) to participate in the
same Major Medical coverage full-time employees at
Cambridge enjoy. This level of coverage offers:
health, vision, dental, short-term and long-term
disability and life insurance through Guardian.
Our Legal Team
Janelle Lowe, Vice President of Legal Services
Chris Fernandes, Director of Paralegal Recruitment
(Temp & Permanent)
Steve Stone, Director of Attorney Recruitment
(Temp & Permanent)
Kasey Binder, Senior Recruiter (Permanent Legal
Secretaries, Legal Administrators, & HR
Professionals)
Amy Brown, Recruiter (Attorneys)
Hallie Pinstein, Recruiter (Temporary Legal
Secretaries, Temporary & Permanent General Office)
Marjorie Alexia Younger, Recruiter (Paralegals)
Jenny Voigt, Recruiter (Clerks)
Cambridge Professional Group
Four Piedmont Center, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
404-842-2800 or 1-800-563-6101 phone
404-842-2805 fax
www.cambridgeprofessionals.com