Twelve Tips for Doing Associate Performance Reviews
Summary: Need guidance in conducting associate performance reviews? Learn more about various aspects of...
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The War for Talent and Business Downturns
Law firms that take a short-term view on talent during an economic downturn will find themselves paying the...
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The Return of a ''Buyers' Market: Suggestions to Law Firm Recruiting Coordinators for How to Best Navigate the Changing Legal Market in 2011''
Although, for some, it seems a long way off, most of us recall the booming legal market in late 2007/early...
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The Emphasis on New Clients and Partner Compensation
There are as many variations of partner compensation plans as there are law firms. Most are well intended and...
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The Changing Interview Landscape
While there is a general degree of consistency in the entry-level hiring process for law firms, which you...
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The Argument for Eliminating Lock-Step Partner Compensation
Eliminate Lock-Step Model and Reward Performance, Not Time Served Beginning at the end of 1999, law firms...
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Law firms and Their Future in the Changing Legal Industry
When considering and, specifically, the nature of marketing legal services in the future, the best guide is...
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Is Your Pay Structure Causing a Partner Exodus?
Were most of your partners satisfied when the firm allocated remaining profits last year?
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How to Recruit Great Lateral Attorneys
Many of the practices that lead to successful lateral hiring are basic common sense. In many instances,...
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How to Market Your Law Firm to Potential Lateral Hires
Marketing is now part and parcel of what it means to be successful with lateral recruitment, especially in a...
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How to Make Sure That Your Laterals Provide Value to the Firm
Most law firms have taken on a lateral who didn't produce as expected because something fell through the...
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How to Keep and Attract the Best and Brightest Talent
Take steps now to be a victor in the ongoing war for legal talent.
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How to Integrate New Lateral Hires in Your Firm
These days most law firms are constantly on the lookout for groups of laterals in key practice areas. While...
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How to Identify Lateral Attorneys Capable of Becoming Good Partners
Today, most lateral associates enter their new firms with the understanding that the position is actually an...
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How to Get Great Results from Your Legal Recruiter
The stakes-time, money, or firm wide resources-are always high when you embark on a search for a lateral hire....
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How to Effectively Interview Lateral Candidates: Pointers for Law Firms
Numerous books, articles, and training materials have been written on the subject of how to successfully...
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How to Conduct an Interview for Lateral Hires
While law firms' lateral hiring pace is likely to slow somewhat this year as many begin refocusing on...
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How to Check that You Have Hired the Right Laterals
While the desire of your firm to land a promising lateral may be nigh overwhelming, caution is the watchword....
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How Profitable is a Lateral Prospect
Lateral hires are on the rise, which means law firm leaders must review their due diligence practices,...
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How certain law firms routinely win the most sought-after candidates
There is a select group of candidates that everybody wants, and you know the type we are talking about....
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How Attorneys Choose Law Firms
As professional search consultants, part of our job is to counsel attorneys on a daily basis as to how they...
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Have a Focused Search to Get Better Results for Your Lateral Hires
Seventy-five percent of all placement requests are for associates with two-to-four years of experience,...
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Ensure you hire stars
Far too many legal-hiring organizations fail to hire stars because their hiring process actually prevents...
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Enhance Your Lateral Hiring: Delegate to Your Search Firm!
Law firm recruiting managers are called upon daily to handle a myriad of responsibilities for their firms,...
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Doing Risk Management When it Comes to Your Lateral Hires
When can hiring a lateral be detrimental to your law firm? All firms consider the impact the potential lateral...
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Different Styles of Law Firm Recruiting
When it comes to recruiting, law firms get as much out of their efforts as they put into them. As a result, is...
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Behavioral Interviewing Techniques to Help Your Law Firm Get Great Laterals
Has your firm been hiring new associates who seem to meet your criteria in the hope that they'll learn and...
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Be Sure About Your Law Firm’s Business Objectives Before Hiring Laterals
In many firms, lateral hiring resembles a revolving door: Lawyers come in, spend three or more years with the...
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Basic Rules Regarding Recruitment and Compensation of Lateral Partners
Few areas have more potential for internal criticism and strife than determining the appropriate compensation...
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Avoiding Mistakes When It Comes to Lateral Acquisitions
In 2001, the NALP Foundation for Research and Education released its groundbreaking study, The Lateral Lawyer:...
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