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Michele L. Bendekovic is the Director of Recruiting & Professional Development of Steptoe & Johnson. Ms. Bendekovic designs, develops, implements and manages firm wide professional development and training programs for members and associates, including leadership training, continuing legal education training, marketing skills and substantive legal programs.
Ms. Bendekovic manages and coordinates the lawyer recruitment program, including formation and implementation of recruiting strategies, resume screening and candidate selection. She participates in the interview and offer process and acts as liaison to law schools and career services offices.
Ms. Bendekovic is a member of the National Association for Law Placement, the Professional Development Consortium, and the American Society for Training and Development. She is a Board Member of the Professional Development Consortium and a member of the NALP Lawyer Professional Development Section. She has been a speaker at the NALP-ALIABA Professional Development Institute in Washington DC, November, 2007. Ms. Bendekovic has also been a speaker at the Law Firm Associate Retention and Professional Development Summit, Washington DC, October, 2007.
Ms. Bendekovic previously worked as Manager of Professional Development for Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC as well as Legal Personnel Director for Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Personnel Administration and Industrial Relations from Saint Francis University.
PUBLICATIONS
Co-author “Roadmap for a Leadership Development Program,” Law Firm Partnership and Benefits Report, ALM, 2008
“Unionism The Steelworkers and Their Union,” Saint Francis University, 1993