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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: Why They Leave and What May Make Them Stay with an eye on revealing: 1) the primary and secondary influences on the decisions of lawyers to change jobs including the role of practice interests, financial incentives, work/life balance priorities, work environment characteristics, and professional and career development needs; 2) the perceptions of laterally hired attorneys about how their new (current) employers are meeting their expectations for assimilation, marketing of the lawyer to clients, compensation and more; 3) The relative degree of loyalty or anticipated longevity of lateral lawyers as they report their own expectations for tenure; and 4) How law firms recruit and hire lateral lawyers, including the role of referrals, self-initiated contact, search consultants; law firm lateral hiring criteria and selectivity; and lateral hiring incentives.

Top 7 Rules for Law Firms Conducting Call Back Interviews of Law Students

Participating in the call-back interview process is different than being an on-campus interviewer. Most firms spend more time training the attorneys who interview on campus than the larger number who participate in the firm's in-house interviews. While on-campus interviews are initial screening interviews, in-house interviews are a mix of initial screening interviews with students who have sent unsolicited resumes to the firm, call-back interviews resulting from on-campus interviews and second visits from students who have received offers and want to visit additional attorneys before making a decision.

Top 10 Reasons to Hire Interns or Summer Associates

Here are the Top 10 Reasons to Hire Interns or Summer Associates:

Hiring on Responses to the Most Common Interview Question

When it comes to interview questions, maybe the most common one posed to candidates is “What’s your strength?” or “Tell us about your strong points,” and similar questions of the same nature. Asking common questions that a candidate expects is one of the greatest interview strategies and it helps to take better informed decisions as answers can be compared against well-researched and standard sets of responses. In this article we are going to explore how employers use the question “What’s your strength?” for making hiring decisions.

How to Make Employee Communications Most Effective

An attorney's employees are deeply interested in their organization's plans for the future. Internal communication among all concerned is essential to create a unified group who understands the organization's objectives (both marketing and otherwise). The benefits are high morale and loyalty toward those objectives. Internal informational meetings, training programs, and newsletters play a critical role in this.

Determining attorney compensation and Its Effect on Overall Practice Strategy

What are some of the options and issues regarding attorney compensation? This one issue is central to every other decision in a law firm, especially the firm's strategy and direction. Certainly this is one of the most often discussed subjects of law practice management, since by definition it affects all attorneys. The pages of practice management books and law journals have lengthier analysis of more types of plans than one would think possible to exist. Someone once made the comment that for every 20 law firms there must be at least 25 different compensation schemes—just for partners!

Using Interactive Reviews to Motivate and Train Staff

A firm of 10 attorneys in a large city relied on 12 staff members to keep office operations running smoothly. All of the attorneys agreed that the employees were meeting the firm's basic expectations. No one felt that more could be expected from the staff because of the limits of staff education, training, ability, and even desire. One former staff member had resigned to enroll in law school the previous year, but the attorneys agreed that this particular case was an exception to the norm and that the rest of the staff had limited career aspirations.

Assessing the Impact of Your Human Resources in Developing Your Legal Practice

Too often, attorneys think that because they are committed to building a practice, their partners, associates, and staff will share their commitment, they eventually discover that this type of enthusiasm does not exist simply for its own sake. They learn that a marketing program, in order for others to embrace it fully, must have its purpose clearly communicated, its strategy logically outlined, and its expectations fully understood. Just as a new practice area can change the way a firm operates, a decision to become proactive with regard to marketing impacts everyone in the firm, from the senior partner to the receptionist. Marketing success depends, therefore, to a great extent on the synergetic force created by a united office effort.

Understanding Generation Y – The Key to Leading a Workforce of the Future

While leading today’s multi-generational workforces, many business leaders recognize two things: First, the organization needs to develop worker strategies taking into account the differences among generations, and second – older generations are constantly losing their stereotypes and gravitating towards adoption of characteristics of generation Y. This happens because individuals like comfort zones (particular to stereotypical generations) and because individuals also adapt continuously to remain relevant (conforming to generation Y characteristics).

Using a Behavioral Interview to the Employer’s Best Advantage

A behavioral interview is only part of a structured interview process, but is extremely important as many interviewers go overboard and either end up alienating candidates or fail to collect relevant behavioral data about the candidate. There is an overwhelming need to collect relevant behavioral data within the limited time span of an interview as well as to keep certain things in mind to make the best use of a behavioral interview.

How Technology is Changing the Recruiting Landscape

Changes in technology have empowered both recruiters and jobseekers, and to a great extent leveled the playing field among all parties involved. No single platform or setting is paramount when it comes to seeking and recruiting talent, but all constitute channels of an integrated recruitment strategy where avenues of jobseeker interaction are nursed according to their importance and employer priorities, but neglected only at the risk of losing relevance.

Hiring a Veteran into a Civilian Workplace

Veterans can be of invaluable help to a business or company in many ways. The greatest assets of a veteran are credibility, discipline, punctuality, teamwork, and ability to follow and give orders. A veteran may or may not be a computer genius brimming with novel ideas, but a veteran has the greatest chance of adding to the core of trusted personnel within a company – without which core a business workplace is nothing more than a way-house for mercenaries hopping from one job to another.

Big Data: The New Stratagem for HR Recruiting

“Is there an easier way to recruit candidates?” This is the question most HR managers and HR professionals ask themselves today. Another question that worries HR professionals is if there is an easy test that could be developed that could determine which candidates could be successful in an organization in the long run. Such a technique, system, or plan does not seem to exist. So what can help you focus on your recruiting efforts or help you send out the right message that could draw in a better and more qualified pool of candidates? Well, all this can change soon with the emergence of Big Data or Big Data analytics.

The Temporary Staffing Strategy - Survival Instinct for Hiring

The temporary staffing industry has always been looked upon as a bellwether for the U.S., according to the analysts. It is used during survival mode by most hiring managers.

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