Utilizing Legal Recruiters
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Take This GIFT for Granted and Your Legal Career Will Be Dead
by Harrison Barnes,Managing Director
Work is the life blood of an attorney’s existence. Without work, a law firm could easily find grounds to terminate a lawyer who is costing the firm money, yet has nothing to produce. Not havi... READ MORE >
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The Top Reasons Why Money Is the Dumbest Thing Any Attorney Should Focus on When Joining a Law Firm
by Harrison Barnes, Managing DirectorSummary: Learn why money should never be your first focus when you are trying to decide which law firm you should join.... READ MORE >
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What happens to pregnant attorneys at law firms?
By David DorionSummary: How can pregnant women and new mothers get along in sexist law firms? READ MORE >
Article type: Utilizing Legal Recruiters, General Attorney Diversity Resources
The Inside Scoop on How to Hire the Very Best In-House Counsel
By Harrison Barnes, Managing DirectorSummary: Are you looking to fill attorney in-house openings in your company but don't know how? Learn how to hire the attorneys you need in this article. READ MORE >
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Annotated Retained Search Agreement
Summary: Use this sample annotated retained search agreement in drafting an agreement with a legal recruiting firm.
This letter is an agreement between [Firm](the "FIRM"), a California partnership containing professional corporations and SEARCH FIRM LEGAL SEARCH, INC., an California corporation ("SEARCH FIRM") (the "Agreement") concerning a search [describe search] the [department or practice group] of the [city] office of the FIRM (the "Search"). READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
How to Hire a Legal Recruiter for Your Law Firm: How Law Firms Recruit Attorneys Using Legal Recruiters
By Harrison Barnes,Managing Director
This article discusses many of the questions most often raised by law firms about their search firm relationships. There are very few "right" or "absolute" answers to questions about search firm relationships. READ MORE >
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Have a Focused Search to Get Better Results for Your Lateral Hires
Seventy-five percent of all placement requests are for associates with two-to-four years of experience, largely because firms want lawyers with few rough edges and no immediate expectation of partnership. But the simple rules of supply and demand dictate that having focus is essential, if you want to improve your firm's chances of success. Another necessity: Spell out all expectations to save yourself the aggravation that comes with having to go back and explain to your hiring partner or committee what went "wrong" with a search. Start by asking partners to thoughtfully consider what they want before they ask you to begin the search for a lateral. To help you get them more attuned to actual needs, below are guidelines detailing minimum level requirements you need from partners before you make the first call to a headhunter: READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters, Attracting Legal Talent, Growing a Law Firm, Hiring Decisions for Law Firms
How to Get Great Results from Your Legal Recruiter
The stakes—time, money, or firm-wide resources—are always high when you embark on a search for a lateral hire. And these costs often have nothing to do with due diligence or questions of fit and synergy. Instead, it's a matter of sheer economics. Because some headhunters' fees now run in the six-figure range, managing such relationships on the front-end can be crucial. READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
The Recruiter-Law Firm Relationship
By Robin LeGrandThe first and most important step of the legal-recruiting process, building long-term client relationships with law firms, is too often ignored or underestimated by many recruiters. Strong relationships are what allow a firm to trust a recruiter with its hiring decisions and are actually critical to any recruiter's effectiveness. Building this trust is far more rewarding than making an individual deal or placement, although it often takes much more effort and consideration for the client's needs. To this end, a good recruiter must always look to deepen its business relationships into partnerships and take into account whether an attorney he/she represents will benefit that attorney's partners as much as that attorney's placement will benefit his/her own interests. READ MORE >
Article type: Working with a Legal Recruiter, Choosing a Legal Recruiter, General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
Web Site Aims to Make Headhunting Convenient for All Parties
By Alexa HylandDaily Journal Staff Writer
One day last fall, David Derrico received five calls from headhunters trying to entice him away from his fourth-year associate position with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Los Angeles. READ MORE >
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How Employers Can Effectively Help Legal Recruiters Do Our Jobs Better
By Dan Binstock, Esq., Carey Bertolet
I. Introduction
You've received a call from the managing partner in your firm's intellectual property practice, who needs to hire three new associates, pronto. READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
Administrative Issue in Recruiting
By Jeffrey SketerisHis character's fate sealed by mortal wounds suffered on a historic battlefield, the actor casts his glance heavenward and breathes forth an elegant final soliloquy, imparting timeless words of honor, courage, and love. When he finishes, all is silent, save for the clatter of his falling sword and shield as the hero slumps and falls. The story has concluded. The curtain falls. The audience, moved by the dramatic scene just witnessed, erupts in applause, shouting its adoration. Another fantastic stage production has ended for the theater company. READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
Enhance Your Lateral Hiring: Delegate to Your Search Firm!
By Jamie BaileyLaw firm recruiting managers are called upon daily to handle a myriad of responsibilities for their firms, including coordinating fall recruiting programs at law schools, planning and managing summer-associate programs, managing lateral hiring, professional development, and conducting partner and associate evaluations. Some of these professionals also handle human resources and marketing functions. These professionals are highly skilled and most often overworked. READ MORE >
Article type: General Legal Employer Resource Center, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
The Costs of Running a Recruiting Business
By Jenny EwigThere is a pervasive opinion among attorneys and firms that all recruiters work out of a spare room in their lofty mansions, pocketing 100% profit from their commissioned attorney placements. While some legal recruiters do indeed operate like this (usually minus the lofty mansions), BCG Attorney Search incurs many traditional and many more "invisible" costs, most of which go into solidifying our clients' position in the legal market. Recruiting businesses, like all businesses, have expenses-advertising, payroll, office overhead-that are sunk costs. Additionally, all businesses have the choice of how to allocate the rest of their funds, with the traditional options being putting those funds straight into the President's pocket or reinvesting them in the company. Putting the time and effort (and money) back into the company in our efforts to provide the most full-service legal-recruiting agency is what sets us apart. READ MORE >
Article type: Working with a Legal Recruiter, Choosing a Legal Recruiter, General Legal Employer Resource Center, About BCG Attorney Search, Utilizing Legal Recruiters
Utilizing Legal Recruiters
