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Tips on Hiring Paralegals

Lynne J. DeVenny, a North Carolina State Bar Certified Paralegal with 20+ years of experience and co-host of monthly podcast, The Paralegal Voice at Legal Talk Network, provides some tips for attorneys looking to hire a paralegal, and for paralegals seeking employment, in her blog posted at practicesmarter.com, ''How to Hire a Great Paralegal''. + read more

How to Start a Process Server Company

Process server jobs require that you work with lawyers and individuals to serve legal papers to people on a daily basis. It is a job and business that is constantly changing, and every day is different. If you're looking for a business that is always changing, presenting new challenges, and requires a lot of thinking-on-your-feet mentality, then starting a process server company might be right up your alley. + read more

Opening Branch offices

Growth is essential to the long-term survival of any business. American and foreign law firms have grown by marketing to the public, acquiring lateral partners with portable practices, merging with other firms, and starting branch offices. + read more

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 should choose between competing law firms. There is a considerable degree of insight that is needed to understand the psychology that attorneys attach to choosing between competing offers, and contrary to popular perception, attorneys do not always choose to work in the highest-paying or most prestigious law firms. Understanding why attorneys choose one firm over another can help you both attract and retain attorneys after they are hired. + read more

How to use a legal search firm

Tailoring Legal Search to Meet Your Firm's Needs
All things considered, legal recruiting is a fairly young industry. Although law firms are increasingly sophisticated in their use of the legal-recruiting industry, BCG believes there is substantial room for improvement in the way the legal-recruiting industry delivers its services and in the way law firms avail themselves of legal-recruiting professionals. + read more

8 Ways to Ensure You Hire Stars

Far too many legal-hiring organizations fail to hire stars because their hiring process actually prevents superstar candidates from ever getting in the door. By reviewing the following list of suggestions for organizing and streamlining your approach to hiring, you should be able to maximize your chances of hiring the star candidates who may have eluded your recruiting efforts in the past. + read more

Interviewing a Law Firm: Distinctions that Make the Difference

I recently asked a managing partner (who is actively in the market for lateral partners) how his firm distinguishes itself from its competitors. The response I got was, "We've got a great firm and we make a ton of money." I have to give him points for being superlative, if not terribly specific. He wasn't being flip; it was clear that he believes that these are the two reasons for partners to join his practice. But as someone who talks to firms about their senior-level needs on a regular basis, these may be important characteristics of the firm, but they are hardly distinguishing characteristics of the firm. The truth is many firms aren't great at articulating what makes them different from their competitors. + read more

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 should choose between competing law firms. There is a considerable degree of insight that is needed to understand the psychology that attorneys attach to choosing between competing offers, and contrary to popular perception, attorneys do not always choose to work in the highest-paying or most prestigious law firms. Understanding why attorneys choose one firm over another can help you both attract and retain attorneys after they are hired. + read more

Four Key Steps to Effectively Market Your Law Firm

Regardless of how limited your marketing dollars or experience may be, you're more likely to succeed if you have a plan. Best of all, the plan need not be complicated. + read more

Attract Smart, Young Associate Attorneys to Jobs at Your Law Firm Using a Microsite

In this article Jennifer C. LaRusso discusses law firms' using their websites and microsites to recruit new associate attorneys. For any law firm filling junior associate lawyer job openings can be stressful in terms of reaching recent law school graduates and appealing to them. LaRusso explains that these days a law firm website's ''About Us'' section just won't cut it. Having a microsite linked to the main law firm website can interest and draw in some of the most talented young lawyers out there. + read more