How Law Firms Use Confidence As Deciding Factor
[00:00:00] How does a law firm decide whether or not to create a full-time, part-time or contract position?
Law firms will typically make that decision based on a couple of different factors. But the main one is how confident they are that they'll have ongoing work.
So, confidence and ongoing work. If they don't have the confidence, then they'll typically make it a contract or part-time position. And contract positions many times are for discrete projects that maybe they wouldn't want their attorneys doing on an ongoing basis or that, just could overflow and things like that.
Same thing with the part-time. That's pretty much how they do that. So it's just confidence not going with clients full-time means there's going to be a lot of ongoing work. Highest hiring standards for that, then, if they do contract to part-time lower. It's just the confidence. The thing is the law firm does not want to have to hire people and have to fire them or let them go because there's not enough work. Because, if they do that, then it just looks bad to their people that are working there. It hurts morale, costs them unemployment insurance, and there's just all sorts of problems.
