Lane Vanderslice is a senior consultant to Shannon & Manch, and oversees the Firm's Chicago office. Lane provides strategic advice to law firm leaders and coaching and career transition counseling services to partners, associates and professional development specialists. Previously, Lane was the Special Assistant to the Chairman of Mayer Brown, a role he assumed after serving as the firm's fulltime Partner for Associate Development and Recruiting for seven years. At Mayer Brown, Lane worked to develop and implement strategic initiatives in lawyer development, evaluation, retention, hiring and, as a founding member of the firm's diversity committee, inclusion. Among other initiatives, Lane facilitated the development of a U.S. wide training and development program; oversaw transformations of firm evaluation and compensation; created a comprehensive first year curriculum aimed at improving integration and long term success; and provided career counseling to lawyers at all levels. He created the first in-house coaching/career counseling program at a US law firm, and in that role counseled hundreds of attorneys, from new associates to partners and practice leaders. Prior to undertaking these roles, Lane was a practicing real estate lawyer at the firm. Lane has presented on recruiting and development issues at PDI, NALP Conference and was an organizer of and presenter at the 2008 NALP Diversity Summit. Lane graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review, and Columbia College. After Law School, Lane clerked for Judge Walter J. Cummings of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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