JDG Associates Taps Executive Director for ALA

November 29, 2009 – Executive search firm JDG Associates Ltd. has placed Larry Smith as executive director of the Association for Legal Administrators (ALA). Mr. Smith joins ALA from the American Bar Association where he had been the director of the law practice management section since 2002. ALA is an international professional membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of management in law firms and other legal services organizations. JDG Associates, founded by Joseph DeGioia, has been serving the executive recruitment needs of Fortune 1000 corporations, associations and non-profits, federal/state/local government, research and consulting organizations and defense contractors since 1973.