Successful lateral partner recruiting is about more than just hiring good lawyers—it’s about gaining good clients. You must show top talent why they should join your firm rather than your competition. Then you must keep them happy long-term by providing the platform they need to bring over their existing clients, properly service them, and expand…
The 2025 Am Law 100 survey results are out and they show dramatic changes in how BigLaw is structured and operated. These changes are so transformative that the reasonable expectations of lawyers, based on the previous reality, may be unfulfilled. Those lawyers may end up believing that the promises made to them in law school…
Thinking about coming to California? If so, you’ll have lots of competition, but there also may be lots of opportunities. Of the more than over 1.3 million lawyers in the United States, a quarter of them are in just two states – New York and California. There are about 190,000 active attorneys in California with…
“Bad actors” refers to lawyers who behave badly, either by engaging in inappropriate conduct (sexual or otherwise) or harassing others on the job. Yet they progress in their legal careers, sometimes earning bigger and better titles and compensation packages, while continuing to behave badly in new settings. What can be done about them? Do recruiters…
