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The Lateral Gold Rush: 5 Critical Questions Law Firm Leaders Must Ask

LawVision on 5/28/2025

The lateral hiring market is always in motion—and law firm leaders are frequently under pressure to act. But before you make your next big lateral hire, pause. You have a lot more to lose than you think. The firms that are...more

Will Your Law Firm Exist in 5 Years?

Best Era on 4/8/2025

The legal profession is standing at the edge of a radical transformation. Technology, shifting client expectations, new business models, and the accelerating pace of change are exposing a critical question: Will your law firm...more

Hiring to Fill an Office in 2025? Heed These Numbers

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 1/30/2025

For the law firms that made headlines in 2024 by opening new offices, 2025 brings a new directive: filling these locations with profitable rainmakers. If you’re among the law firm leaders scouting talent in a new or growing...more

Laterals and Malpractice: Clear and Present Danger

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 1/15/2025

If the statistics about high failure rates of lateral partners don’t persuade you, consider another barometer: the stress levels of professional liability insurers. Indeed, lateral hiring tops the list of issues that...more

The Practice Group Leader’s Guide to Growth in 2025

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 1/7/2025

Attracting and retaining talent is the No. 1 issue for practice group leaders, according to a Withum survey of law firm leaders. And sadly, in the same survey, just 36 percent of respondents described their practice group...more

Minding Your LPQs: How Firms Should Draft and Deploy the Lateral Partner Questionnaire

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 12/11/2024

The lateral partner questionnaire (LPQ) should not be a mere formality – instead, it should be considered your first line of defense in lateral partner hiring. ...more

Nine Actions Smart Law Firms Take in Q4

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 12/6/2024

The fourth quarter presents law firm leaders with a critical period for addressing strategic planning, financial management, and compensation adjustments. However, firms that extend their focus beyond immediate financial...more

Beyond Red Flags: Deploying Positive Intel from Due Diligence

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 10/28/2024

We admit it: Sometimes it’s tempting to lead with the negative information from pre-hire investigations. Bullying behavior, inflammatory social media posts, fabricated client relationships – these (very real) examples raise...more

The Fastest Path to Market Share: Why Law Firm CMOs Need A Seat at the Lateral Hiring Table

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 9/25/2024

A majority of attorneys and law firm leaders say business development is set to get tougher, according to a survey by BTI Consulting. Yet many of these firms are making it harder on themselves: The Legal Marketing Association...more

Beware the Off-Cycle Lateral

Decipher Investigative Intelligence on 9/17/2024

Timing is everything, as the saying goes — and it certainly holds true when it comes to assessing the risk of lateral partner candidates. Indeed, Decipher Investigative Intelligence analysis reveals a significant trend:...more

Successfully integrating new partners

IR Global on 6/21/2024

In this new issue of Insights, dedicated to the integration of new partners in legal organizations, we will look at the many benefits of successfully integrating new partners, but also the many risks incurred by an...more

How To Rank Attorney Candidates

Stange Law Firm, PC on 10/12/2021

The attorneys you hire to work in your law firm can make a critical difference. The better attorneys you employ in your law firm, the happier clients you will have. Having satisfied clients is vital when law firms are in...more

Be honest with your employees

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 1/14/2021

I always say the two worst things you can give people are false praise and false hope. One of the reasons that I started my practice is because I was an employee and for the most part, I didn’t like how I saw employers treat...more

[EP. 39 LEGAL MARKETING MINUTES - PODCAST] "The 3 Main Reasons For Using LinkedIn"

Nancy Myrland - Myrland Marketing & Social... on 2/12/2020

What should you do when someone sends you an invitation to connect on LinkedIn? You meet someone at an event or online and want to take that relationship to the next level. Do you connect and hope they begin to notice you? ...more

Untruthfulness on a resume or job application

Stange Law Firm, PC on 12/11/2019

Hiring new employees is a critical function of any law firm. To have a successful legal practice, they need the best legal and administrative talent possible to serve their clients. The reality, however, is that reviewing...more

Yes, Virginia, Law Firms are Hiring Sales Professionals!

LawVision on 11/4/2016

The Cubs won the world series, Donald Trump may be our next President, and law firms are hiring sales professionals. What? Really?...more

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