Recruiting Lawyers

Recruiting Lawyers: How to Hire the Best Talent, Second Edition provides you with effective and practical strategies that you can incorporate immediately into your recruitment procedures.

The authors of this guide have thoroughly researched law-firm hiring practices and its many shifts in order to produce this book, which covers practical searching and screening strategies, smart hiring practices and constructive ideas that can be incorporated into recruitment procedures.

Guidebook for attorneys regarding selecting and working with legal recruiters. The book is targeted towards experienced attorneys in the United States, with an emphasis on major legal markets. Addresses both law firm and in-house searches.

Moving from one law firm to another is the most significant career decision an attorney can make. In this book seasoned legal recruiter Adam Weiss guides law firm partners—and aspiring partners—through the recruiting process. Using example situations and the experience gained from two decades as a lawyer and legal recruiter, the author explains how you can receive the best lateral offers by creating the perfect market: one where firms compete for your practice.

It's a "must-have" career book on finding, securing, and thriving in the fiercely competitive in-house legal market. It's a complete guide through the maze of potential job-hunting strategies, dispelling the myths about corporate life, and offering the reader an arsenal of tips, skills, and methods for creating a successful corporate career.

Recruiting Top Legal Talent provides an authoritative, insiders perspective on best practices for successfully reaching and attracting both associate and partner-level attorneys. Featuring managing partners from law firms across the country, this book offers invaluable perspectives on common law firm recruitment issues such as connecting with law schools, handling questions of diversity, and negotiating employment offers. From interviewing associates to finding partners through headhunting firms, these leaders highlight the challenges of hiring at all levels and offer expertise on determining appropriate compensation, using retention tools, and establishing a firms core values. These top lawyers discuss recent trends that are affecting attorney recruitment and retention, including new hiring structures, diminished financial resources, and changes in associate programs. Additionally, these authors reveal their strategies for identifying and supporting career goals at both the associate and partner levels, and discuss how marketing and recruitment must coordinate their efforts. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds of today, as these experts identify the winning tactics in law firm recruitment and retention.

Maximizing Law Firm Profitability: Hiring, Training and Developing Productive Lawyers shows you how to manage your own practice and how to develop the potential of the people reporting to you.

This manual covers all aspects of recruitment, hiring, orientation, training, evaluation, compensation, and promotion of a new associate in the law office. Sample forms for interview procedures, rejection letters, letters of understanding, compensation policies, and cost analyses are included in the work.