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Legal Staffing: How Young Graduates Can Make the Most of the Opportunity

published March 10, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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If you are freshly graduated law student, then you are anxious to either find a position as a lawyer in a leading law firm or get a license to start your own firm as a lawyer. Many legal firms are on the lookout for fresh law graduates who can practice. The process of hiring new staff in legal firms is called legal staffing. The process is rigorous and thorough. The concept behind this is to make the hiring activity rewarding since only the best lawyers are qualified. In fact, most graduates who have qualified for these positions make the most out of their positions. Two, they end up being very prominent lawyers and subsequently, open their own law firms. This is observed by legal staffing experts. They easily pick those who show such proficiency and capabilities.

For someone who wants a platform to improve on his newly acquired skills sets, being hired in a law firm is the initial step. Passing the legal staffing process and becoming a lawyer in a legal firm is a subsequent great achievement. Legal experts involved in the process are very keen since this process involves commitment to maintaining high standards of staffing in firms legal departments and legal corporate departments. As such, for law students, being very committed to achieving distinctive credentials and a good education background is a very important principal to employers in the legal industry.


Here, the employer is always on the lookout for superior quality graduates in legal studies. In addition, the hirer is always seeking the highest-level qualification to get high-level service in the department the graduate lawyer is placed in to manage. The aim of the legal staffing process is to provide a law firm with the best set of paralegals, lawyers and other staffs. This means, the legal firm is assured of qualified and proficient young practitioners who will excel and promote the firms image, portfolio, and corporate aspirations consistently. This is a crucial milestone in corporations and legal firm's management and corporate structures. It offers insulation against impeding legal storms. It is only the lawyers and other management experts employed by the company that can manage bad economic weather of any firm. As such, hiring the right people is essential.

In the legal staffing process, those hiring the graduates weigh various options. These options are the measures required to make sure that a firm is able to bag the best executives for its departments. The departments involved in the process of hiring new legal staff specialize in identifying the best graduates for attorney position. These experts in legal staffing look into including and seeking the right legal partners for the law firm they are representing. These include legal associates or counsel staff attorneys. Management positions in a legal firm include the following positions: paralegals, legal secretaries, office services, receptionists, accounts clerks, administrators, legal word processors, and record and document clerks. Only qualified and proficient graduates can qualify for the positions, so it's all about the handwork in college that can pay when you face the legal staffing experts.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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LawCrossing has received tens of thousands of attorneys jobs and has been the leading legal job board in the United States for almost two decades. LawCrossing helps attorneys dramatically improve their careers by locating every legal job opening in the market. Unlike other job sites, LawCrossing consolidates every job in the legal market and posts jobs regardless of whether or not an employer is paying. LawCrossing takes your legal career seriously and understands the legal profession. For more information, please visit www.LawCrossing.com.

published March 10, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
( 11 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5)
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