In the good old days (pre-pandemic), when lawyers interviewed for jobs, they dressed up in suits, maybe flew across the country, met with numerous people – sometimes sequentially and sometimes together – shook hands, and perhaps ate a meal and had a glass of wine. With the Return to Office movement, those old-fashioned in-person interviews…
Describing your firm and differentiating it are two very different things. The key to successful recruitment and retention lies in understanding how your firm is different from its competitors, clearly communicating that difference in the marketplace, and then finding the audience that appreciates those differences. Every organization has a wealth of information embedded in its…
Lawyers pride themselves on being good communicators, but there’s more to effective communication than choice of words. Like just about anything you ask a lawyer, the answer to the question, “Which is the best way to communicate your message?” is, of course, “It depends.” The phrase, “The medium is the message,” was popularized by Marshall…
Every marketplace operates according to the law of supply and demand, and the lawyer job market is no different. When the economy is strong, there’s plenty of legal work to go around, and law firm employers clamor to hire more lawyers to handle it. Conversely, when the economy slows and deals are down, hiring slows.…
