Susan G. Etheridge

Susan G. Etheridge Professional Placement Services Inc.

Susan Etheridge, the President of our Company, has been retained numerous times to serve as an expert witness on issues involving attorney compensation and employability.She has served in this capacity in employment disputes and dissolution of marriage cases.

Contact us for additional information regarding our expert witness services.

Susan G. Etheridge, Esq.Presidentsetheridge@ppsilaw.com

Susan is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D. 1990) and a cum laude graduate of Florida State University (B.A. 1986).Prior to founding PPSI, Susan was an associate with the law firm of Akerman, Senterfitt & Edison, P.A., and worked in the firm's Tampa office.Susan practiced in the areas of commercial litigation and employment law.

Susan authored "Damages in Commercial Cases", Florida Civil Practice Damages (1994).She has also lectured on numerous topics, including working with contract lawyers, hiring for success, employment at will and non-compete agreements, resume writing and interviewing techniques, telephone etiquette, attorney expectations for legal nurse consultants, and legal nurse consultant contracts and billing practices.Susan also regularly serves as an expert witness on issues involving attorney employability and compensation.She is a member of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Hillsborough County Bar Association (YLD Board of Directors 1998-2000), the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, and the Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers.

The tide has changed, said Susan Etheridge, president of Professional Placement Services Inc., a legal placement company in Tampa.

Roberta Colton, chairwoman of the bankruptcy practice group at the Trenam Kemker firm in Tampa, said she has hired three additional attorneys since September, including the law clerk for bankruptcy judge Alexander Paskay, and is negotiating with a colleague for 50 percent of another associate's time.

i have done more workouts in the past six months than i have probably done in the previous three or four years combined, Colton said.

So-called workout sessions offer troubled companies and their lenders an opportunity to renegotiate loan terms without resorting to litigation or bankruptcy.

Susan EtheridgeProfessional Placement Services, Inc.P.O. Box 130536

Tampa, FL 33681-0536Phone: 831-2889Fax: 835-1400

Susan Etheridge Esq. Professional Placement Services, Inc. P.O. Box 130536 Tampa, FL 33681-0536 setheridge@ppsilaw.com 813-831-2889

Susan EtheridgeProfessional Placement Services, Inc.5224 S. MacDill Ave.Tampa, FL 33611Phone: 831-2889 Fax: 831-1400

Susan Etheridge, J.D., founder and president of Professional Placement Services, Inc., looks back and realizes she need not have changed careers in order to "have a life."In fact, she might still be working at the same law firm today, had she only imagined that a reduced-hours schedule was a possibility.
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Back to Susan Etheridge: After six years practicing litigation at a Tampa, Florida firm, Etheridge loved her work and could see her way to making partner.But the limited time she could spend with her two-year-old daughter and husband who traveled extensively on business was a constant source of concern.The notion of working reduced hours had not yet surfaced, so she never even broached the subject with the firm's partners.

Joined by members of her working mothers support group, Etheridge started Professional Placement Services, Inc. (PPSI).Initially, she intended to place working mothers - many of whom were her friends - as contract attorneys, so they might find the balance that eluded them in their full-time legal careers.But as her business grew, she found that many male attorneys were also seeking part-time work - not only for family reasons, but also in order to write novels or screenplays, or to tide them over while starting their own businesses.

Now PPSI provides permanent, temporary, and temporary-to-permanent placement of attorneys, legal administrators, legal nurse consultants, law clerks, paralegals, and legal secretaries.It also provides expert witness testimony and consulting for law firms on a variety of employment-related issues.

"In some ways," says Etheridge, "there's more pressure because I'm running my own business.
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"You don't have to leave the law to find the flexibility you want," advises Etheridge.

Susan G. Etheridge, Esq.Presidentsetheridge@ppsilaw.com

Susan is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D. 1990) and a cum laude graduate of Florida State University (B.A. 1986).Prior to founding PPSI, Susan was an associate with the law firm of Akerman, Senterfitt & Edison, P.A., and worked in the firm's Tampa office.Susan practiced in the areas of commercial litigation and employment law.

Susan authored "Damages in Commercial Cases", Florida Civil Practice Damages (1994).She has also lectured on numerous topics, including working with contract lawyers, hiring for success, employment at will and non-compete agreements, resume writing and interviewing techniques, telephone etiquette, attorney expectations for legal nurse consultants, and legal nurse consultant contracts and billing practices.Susan also regularly serves as an expert witness on issues involving attorney employability and compensation.She is a member of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Hillsborough County Bar Association (YLD Board of Directors 1998-2000), the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, and the Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers.