What Should You Do If Your Best Candidate Rejects Your Salary Offer?

Finding a great legal support candidate isn’t easy. When you’ve found someone with the experience, skills, and personality to make a great addition to your team, you want them to accept your offer quickly. What do you do if their first response is “That’s not going to work for me”? A candidate rejecting your salary… Read More »

How to Find the Firm with the Right Culture Fit For You

A job posting that lists your skills and areas of experience is an exciting find. On paper, the job looks like the perfect fit – but is the firm or department the perfect fit as well? The culture of a law firm or legal department can impact your career as heavily as the tasks you… Read More »

How a Mentor Program Could Benefit Your Legal Support Team

Mentoring is a valuable, low-cost way to make onboarding easier for new hires, foster a sense of teamwork, and improve productivity and retention simultaneously. A mentoring program that focuses on legal support staff helps these team members do better work and to pool their professional talents, ultimately benefiting lawyers and clients as well. How does… Read More »

How Your Recruiter Can Help You Prepare for Your Next Interview

Recruiters do more than simply recommend you for a posted job opening or help you find a law firm or legal department looking for a support professional with your talents. They can also help you fine-tune your resume and prepare to give an outstanding interview. To get the most from your relationship with your recruiter,… Read More »

4 Strategies for Boosting Team Morale

Legal work is adversarial and complex. A single case or project may stretch over months, with every detail needing critical attention and thorough research from the legal team. With so much at stake, pressure can be high – and morale can drop. Here are four ways to improve the morale of a legal support team… Read More »

How to Evaluate a Legal Support Candidate’s Communication Skills

Communication skills – writing, speaking, and listening – form the core of successful legal support work. All good legal support candidates know this and take pains to prepare for communication-related questions during the interview. To obtain a more comprehensive view of each candidate’s communication skills, employ the following methods during the interview process: Summarize each… Read More »

Can Fine-Tuning Your Tech Skills Advance Your Legal Support Career?

Tech skills are now essential for the best legal support staff. Technology has changed the practice of law in many ways, from expanding the number of practice areas in which law is disputed to changing the day- to-day tasks required for a firm or department to operate efficiently. Legal support staff with strong tech skills… Read More »

4 Tips for Announcing Staff Resignations

Staff resignations can come as a shock to legal support and other staff members, especially when they are sudden or unexpected. By handling the announcement proactively, you help your organization stay on track and manage any lingering “skills gaps” until a qualified individual can be found to fill the position. Here’s how: Plan the announcement… Read More »

3 Resume Red Flags Legal Support Recruiters Look For

Your resume is your one chance to make a great first impression. It tells recruiters and hiring managers who you are, what your best work looks like, and how you’ve obtained the skills and experience you need to succeed in a particular legal support position. Since your resume is your first point of contact with… Read More »

3 Skills You Need to Be a Successful Legal Support Professional

Legal support staff are crucial to the smooth functioning of law firms and legal departments. To serve clients effectively and keep work moving forward, legal support staff need three skills to stand out above all others: Not only do legal support staff need to be able to express themselves fluently in both oral and written… Read More »