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Crossing the Bridge Back to a Top Law Firm From In-House
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Matt Moody Shares Outlook on Law Firm Hiring and Attracting Talent With Signing Bonuses
“Signing bonuses are here to stay as a means for firms to offer a competitive edge to candidates.”
How Law Firm Partners Can Qualify Legal Recruiters: 3 Key Techniques
“If you are a law firm partner with a portable practice, there is simply too much at stake, professionally and economically, to entrust your career to an unqualified legal recruiter.”
Why Lateral Partner Candidates Can Stop Worrying About Discussing Books of Business
“While a partner candidate’s book of business is undoubtedly an important component of a law firm’s evaluation process, in the vast majority of lateral partner assessments it will neither make nor break the partner candidate.”
The 5 Common Characteristics of Effective In-House Counsel
“I have worked with hundreds of in-house lawyers over the past decade (and spent time myself as in-house counsel at an investment bank) and have found that the best in-house lawyers share five key similarities.”
Matt Moody Comments on the Use of Large Signing Bonuses in the Battle for Legal Talent
“Signing bonuses were not the norm for junior and midlevel associates. At least on the corporate side, now it’s expected if you’re an associate.”
3 Questions Law Firm Associates Should Be Asking Their Legal Recruiters
“You should settle for nothing less than a long-term, trusting relationship with your legal recruiter, one which is founded on the value delivered by the recruiter over the course of your legal career.”
Meet the Empire Search Legal Recruiters: Q&A with Managing Director Joshua Davis
“Our goal as professional recruiters is to help attorneys acquire as much information as they can to facilitate informed objective decisions about their career trajectory.”
Scott Yaccarino Comments on Law Firm Salary Increases and In-House Transitions
“Every time law firm compensation goes up, it recalibrates the decision that associates need to make.”
Scott Yaccarino Offers Insight on Law Firms Entering the Burgeoning Miami Legal Market
“There are other states where if a firm is going to open an office, they’re adding a big expense at the business level. That may not be the case in South Florida.”