Alida Barletta is the Director of Attorney Development for Goodwin. She leads a team of more than 20 Attorney Development professionals who provide support, guidance, feedback, and encouragement to help our attorneys realize their professional goals and provide strategic information, feedback, and advice to practice group leaders and firm leaders. Her team works with attorneys at every stage of their careers. Alida counsels and coaches attorneys and team members on professional development and workload management. She also oversees the resource allocation process for the firm. She collaborates with other professional staff teams to support the firm’s diversity initiatives and work on firm-wide initiatives designed to enhance attorney development, leadership, management and supervision, engagement, and retention.
Prior to joining Goodwin, Alida was the manager of recruiting and professional development at Dow Lohnes where she developed and implemented a lateral partner hiring process for the firm and ran the law student and lateral associate hiring programs. She counseled attorneys on a range of professional development issues; managed the performance evaluation processes; planned and organized professional development and CLE programs; and oversaw the new attorney onboarding and integration processes.
Ms. Barletta was an associate in the Securities Enforcement and Investigations practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP from 2001 to 2010.