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- Have a Focused Search to Get Better Results for Your Lateral Hires
- Basic Rules Regarding Recruitment and Compensation of Lateral Partners
- Be Sure About Your Law Firm’s Business Objectives Before Hiring Laterals
- How to Make Sure that Your Laterals Provide Value to the Firm
- How to Market Your Law Firm to Potential Lateral Hires
- How to Recruit Great Lateral Attorneys
- The Return of a ''Buyers' Market: Suggestions to Law Firm Recruiting Coordinators for How to Best Navigate the Changing Legal Market in 2011''
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- How to Keep and Attract the Best and Brightest Talent
- Different Styles of Law Firm Recruiting
- The War for Talent and Business Downturns
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Employer ¬ Bringing in New Attorneys ¬ Growing a Law Firm
- Winning the War for Talent: My Guide to Recruiting, Compensating, and Growing Small Law Firms
- Commitment Matters: How to Hire Attorneys Who Will Stick Around
- Understanding Component Profitability Analysis: A Guide for Law Firm Management
- The Critical Role of Capital Planning and Debt Management for Law Firms
- The Client-Lawyer Relationship: An In-Depth Look
- How Law Firms and Other Hiring Organizations Can Determine if an Attorney Has the Qualifications to Do the Job They Are Hiring For
- The Top 15 Marketing and Sales Tricks Law Firms Use to Get You to Work For Them
- Benefits and Drawbacks of Two-Tier Partnerships in Law Firms
- What Is the Best Partner Compensation System?
- Have a Focused Search to Get Better Results for Your Lateral Hires
- Basic Rules Regarding Recruitment and Compensation of Lateral Partners
- How to Make Sure that Your Laterals Provide Value to the Firm
- How Profitable is a Lateral Prospect
- How to Market Your Law Firm to Potential Lateral Hires
- Spot These Warning Signs about Your Lateral Acquisitions
- How to Check that You Have Hired the Right Laterals
- A Checklist and Questionnaire for Law Firms to Use When Hiring Lateral Partners
- How to Recruit Great Lateral Attorneys
- The Return of a ''Buyers' Market: Suggestions to Law Firm Recruiting Coordinators for How to Best Navigate the Changing Legal Market in 2011''
- Marketing Your Law Firm Through Practice Groups
- The Smartest and Dumbest Things Law Firms Do
- Marketing and Business Considerations for Law Firm Ancillary Businesses
- Tools Law Firms and Lawyers Need in Seeking Out Business
- How to Move Past Promotion for Your Law Firm
- Overhead Costs of Ancillary Businesses
- The Argument for Eliminating Lock-Step Partner Compensation
- The Emphasis on New Clients and Partner Compensation
- How Mid-Sized Firms Can Survive
- How to Measure Whether a Merger is Successful
- UK Law Firm Mergers with US Firms
- Typical Obstacles to Mergers
- The Importance of Integrating Associates in Firm Mergers
- How to Tell if Partners Are Ready to Merge
- Practice Management
- Avoiding Merger Minefields
- Law Firm Business Fundamentals: How to Run a Successful Law Firm
- Managing Strategically, Managing Operationally
- Implementing Practice Management After Law Firm Mergers
- Capitalizing on a Law Firm's Growth—Is Bigger Better?
- Business Planning for Practice Groups
- How to Achieve the Benefits of Practice Management
- Managing Strategically, Managing Operationally
- Making Partners without Problems
- Opening New Offices: Tips for Successful Branch Expansion
Employer ¬ Bringing in New Attorneys ¬ Hiring Decisions for Law Firms
- Law Firm Recruitment Trends in the USA: 2025 Insights for Students, Laterals & Hiring Managers
- Identifying Risky Lateral Hires: A Guide for Law Firms
- The Degree of Flexibility with Experience Requirements in Law Job Listings
- A Guide to Understanding When Practicing Attorneys Can and Cannot Relocate to Different Markets
- Top Qualities to Look for When Hiring a Law Firm Associate
- Top 10 Reasons U.S. Law Firms Are Reluctant to Hire Foreign-Educated Attorneys with LLMs
- Understanding Your Employment Options for a Dynamic Legal Team: Direct Hire, Contract, and Contract-to-Hire
- Overcoming Common Challenges in Law Firm Lateral Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide
- Beyond the Resume: Effective Techniques for Evaluating Candidates in Law Firm Interviews
- How Law Firms Can Avoid Interview Biases and Make Informed Hiring Decisions
- Different Approaches to Law Firm Recruiting: Choosing the Right One for Your Firm
- The Pros and Cons of Contingency or Retained Search for Law Firms
- Avoiding Common Mistakes When Hiring Laterals for Your Law Firm
- Law Firm Lateral Transfers: A Strategy for Growth and Success
- How Law Firms and Other Hiring Organizations Can Determine if an Attorney Has the Qualifications to Do the Job They Are Hiring For
- The Four Types of Attorneys Inside of Law Firms: Are You a Finder, Minder, Binder or Grinder?
- How the 'Invisible Hand' Operates in Law Firm Employment Decisions: The Top 12 Most Important Factors Firms Consider When Hiring (and Firing) Attorneys
- What is Bar Reciprocity and Which States Allow You to Waive Into the Bar?
- Guide to Law Firm Associate Hiring, Training, and Promotion
- Top 7 Rules for Law Firms Conducting Call Back Interviews of Law Students
- Have a Focused Search to Get Better Results for Your Lateral Hires
- Be Sure About Your Law Firm’s Business Objectives Before Hiring Laterals
- How to Make Sure that Your Laterals Provide Value to the Firm
- How Profitable is a Lateral Prospect
- Doing Risk Management When it Comes to Your Lateral Hires
- How to Integrate New Lateral Hires in Your Firm
- Spot These Warning Signs about Your Lateral Acquisitions
- Behavioral Interviewing Techniques to Help Your Law Firm Get Great Laterals
- How to Check that You Have Hired the Right Laterals
- How to Conduct an Interview for Lateral Hires
- A Checklist and Questionnaire for Law Firms to Use When Hiring Lateral Partners
- How to Identify Lateral Attorneys Capable of Becoming Good Partners
- Making Partners without Problems
- The 2002 BCG Attorney Search Guide To Class Ranking Distinctions And Law Review Admission At America's Top 25 Law Schools
- How to Spot Trailing Spouse Syndrome: These Questions May Make All the Difference
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Douglas Gallagher
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Class Of 2003
Placed at Ladas & Parry LLP[Working with BCG] was very easy. I worked with my legal placement professional because I had responded to some listings....Read more >
Mark Hertel
Columbia University Law School, Class Of 2006
Placed at Feldman & Feldman Associates, APCMy legal placement professional was great. She sort of quartered back the whole process for me and made it easy. As a la....Read more >
Patrick Fanning
University of Richmond School of Law, Class Of 2013
Placed at Troutman Sanders LLPI'm glad to be working with my recruiters in California again, as they were very helpful in my 2010 job search.
Chris Garrett
Columbia Law School, Class of 2009BCG Attorney Search is the best! Becca really listened to what I was looking for and gave very fair and impartial advice....Read more >
Nina Bakhtina
University of Chicago Law School, Class Of 2017
Placed at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPYou provided a lot of back-end help in terms of preparing resumes, cover letters, etc. It was good to receive possibilit....Read more >
A. C.
Fordham University School of Law, Class Of 2013
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