Yesterday, I was skimming through my RSS reader and came across the post from Thomson Reuters’ Legal Current blog entitled “The Game” stuns attendees at legal marketing awards program. The more I read and watched, the more my mind was blown. The folks at Legal Current do a great job of describing, in detail,
According to the New York Times, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is “tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years” with the goal of making “its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.” Apparently, the new grade inflation for law students is becoming all the rage across
I ran across a great article this morning which stresses how “Emotional intelligence is the new benchmark to a successful legal career.” Alison Bernard and Niki Kopsidas of Fried Frank collaborated on the article “How High Is Your ‘EI’?” in the New York Law Journal’s “Special Report: Law Schools“. Bernard and
Sticking to our recruiting theme for this week, I thought I’d address the issue of recruiting lateral partners. According to Vivia Chen at The American Lawyer, during the first twelve months of the Great Recession there was a movement of “2,775 partners [who] left or joined the biggest firms in the country.” That’s a
A chance conversation with my AFA counter-part lead to a dialogue on the suitability of lawyer personalities to a successful law practice. In part, this was out an outcome of Lisa’s post on the sales skills of lawyers. In our conversation, we decided that to be truly successful these days a lawyer needs 1) Technical
I’ve been wondering how law firm summer recruiting programs are faring this year.
I wonder how closely partners are scrutinizing this year’s crop of summer clerks for their ability to generate revenue rather than fighting other firms for over what was once perceived as a limited pool of talent.
I suspect that prior years’ rush-type