Career Advancement Program

The Career Advancement Program (CAP) is designed to help members of all experience levels and backgrounds move forward in their careers. This special program features longtime Chicago lawyer and career advancement professional Kathy Morris of Under Advisement, Ltd. Kathy has been helping lawyers of all skill levels and practice areas navigate the Chicago legal job market for decades. 

The CAP program provides:
  • Complimentary and low cost in-person and webcast seminars. See calendar of events for upcoming and on demand programs. 
  • Complimentary one-on-one career counseling sessions at the CBA.
  • Helpful on-demand videos on the CBA's YouTube Channel.
  • Special programming at the CBA's annual membership week in May.


Individual Career Counseling Sessions on Professional Development or Job Search Issues 

CBA Featured Career Counselor Kathy Morris offers complimentary 20-minute virtual career counseling sessions for CBA members on a variety of pertinent topics from networking to time management to salary negotiation to non-legal career alternatives and beyond. 

Upcoming Dates:
Registration coming soon!
January 14, 2026
January 28, 2026
March 12, 2026
March 26, 2026
May 7, 2026
May 14, 2026

Upcoming Career Programs

Holiday Fireside Chat
December 4, 2025, 4:00pm-5:00pm
1 IL MCLE credit
Kathy Morris will interview Christina Martini, Partner, McDermott Will & Schulte and David Susler, Associate General Counsel, National Material L.P. about their new book, Change Yourself, a hard-hitting and heartfelt guide to being a stand-out lawyer, leader, mentor and human. 
Click here to register!
  

On Demand Career Programs

Click here to see a list of upcoming and on demand career meetings and seminars.
Topics include:
- To Career Plan or Not to Career Plan?
- Career Do’s and Don’ts 
- Taking a Career Break: Considerations and Ramifications
- Law Degrees Making a Difference
- Lawyer Career Reinventions
- From Lawyer to Leader
- and many more!


About Featured Career Counselor Kathy Morris

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Kathy Morris is the featured career counselor at the center of the Chicago Bar Association’s multi-dimensional Career Advancement Program (CAP).

After handling criminal cases in courtrooms from Massachusetts to Hawaii and directing the Career Services office at Northwestern Law School, where she also was a faculty member over the years teaching legal ethics, Kathy opened Under Advisement, Ltd. in 1988 to help lawyers and law students find jobs and enjoy satisfying careers. She also created a Career Resource Center for the ABA in 2000 and the ABA Legal Career Central in 2015.
 
Kathy is also an innovator in attorney professional development, most recently creating a nationwide lawyer training platform for Sidley. She founded the Chicago Law Firm Training Consortium and was a charter Board Member of the Professional Development Consortium. She is a frequent speaker, author, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council.

Follow Kathy on X at @LawyerCounselor.