Practical Networking: How to Give and Get Help With Jobs

Flippen, Edward L.

Ed Flippen is a practicing attorney in Richmond, Virginia. Before attending law school, he was a stockbroker on Wall Street ... a job he was fired from at a time when his wife was expecting their first child. Subsequently, he received help from his father-in-law in getting a teaching job. Since then, Flippen has helped over 100 people, including bankers, lawyers, government officials, teachers, secretaries, and recent high school and college graduates, with their job searches.In additional to being an attorney and having been a stockbroker, Flippen served three years in airborne units in the Army. He has also taught full-time and part-time at nine colleges and universities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Flippen's wife is a pre-school teacher. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.