Outstanding results rely on outstanding people. For law firms and legal departments, a high-performing law clerk can generate more revenue and provide better results to clients than a law clerk whose skills are merely average. Finding the best talent, however, can be difficult. Consider the following tips to improve a law clerk talent search: 1.… Read More »
Management & HR
Don’t Just Communicate With Your Team – Truly Connect
Every leader knows that communication is a key leadership skill. Yet many leaders find themselves frustrated when they call meeting after meeting or send email after email, only to find that their attempts to communicate are going unheeded. In this case, leaders may be communicating, but not connecting. How to Tell If You’re Not Connecting… Read More »
How to Help Your Employees Find Better Balance
One of the best ways to help your team practice mindfulness is to be a mindful leader. When you’re more centered and aware, your staff respond accordingly. Mindfulness is the practice of staying in the present moment – not allowing your mind to become tangled up in what happened yesterday or what you’re worried might… Read More »
How to Adopt a Service Mentality
Today, nearly everyone in a law firm or legal department will work directly with clients at some point in their day or week. Organizations that embrace a service ethic position themselves to offer better representation to clients. To demonstrate your service ethic on the job or while interviewing for a new position, keep these tips… Read More »
Learn How to Write the Best Job Posts for the Legal Industry
Job listings are a law firm’s or legal department’s chance to make a great first impression on job candidates. To attract the right candidates, however, the job post needs to both engage and inform. Here’s how to ensure your job posts are thorough, accurate, and memorable – so that candidates apply with a clear understanding… Read More »
How to Attract Good Legal Assistants When Unemployment Is Low
When unemployment is low, many of the best candidates are already employed in jobs they love. Yet the need to fill open legal assistant positions doesn’t go away. Here’s how hiring managers can find candidates in out of the ordinary places, attracting the talent they need without sacrificing quality. Make it easy to apply and… Read More »
How to Attract Good Legal Assistants When Unemployment Is Low
When unemployment is low, many of the best candidates are already employed in jobs they love. Yet the need to fill open legal assistant positions doesn’t go away. Here’s how hiring managers can find candidates in out of the ordinary places, attracting the talent they need without sacrificing quality. Make it Easy to Apply and… Read More »
Why You Need to Learn How to Accept Criticism
Every professional can find ways to improve how they work. Whether this means handling a particular task more effectively or planning your career better, legal support professionals dedicated to growth can always find a way to do it. Sometimes, the path to our growth is pointed out to us in uncomfortable ways. Criticism can be… Read More »
How to Implement Teamwork Into a Competitive Workplace
Law is, by nature a competitive profession. The adversarial nature of litigation tends to put everyone on a competitive edge, and this sense of competition is often fostered in law school or legal support education programs. While a competitive nature can help lawyers and legal support professionals succeed, it can also harm office culture. Teams… Read More »
How You Can Help Your Legal Assistants Manage Their Time Better
Time management is essential to the practice of law. It’s also an important skill for any working professional since there are always more available options in any given day than there is time to seize them. Legal assistants, in particular, benefit from strong time management skills, since their ability to manage time well and complete… Read More »