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“The equity components of in-house compensation packages give attorneys—from junior counsel to General Counsel—an opportunity to be literally invested in their work.”
“High-quality legal recruiters are capable of providing tremendous value in ways that many attorneys don’t appreciate until they’ve been through a job search with such a recruiter.”
“In today’s legal market, crossing the bridge from an in-house role back into a top law firm is becoming much more common (and lucrative!).”
“I have never seen a law firm practice area offer more opportunity in terms of subject matter diversity, career trajectory, and economics as compared to its in-house counterpart.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The competition for top talent remains fierce, and I think the firms that will do the best recruiting are those that can offer attorneys flexibility.”
“With video interviewing, you need to put more thought into the technology you are using and the setting in which you conduct the interview.”