December 17, 2024
Negotiating isn’t a specialized skill, but something we regularly do. Speakers on a panel at this year’s General Counsel Conference East agreed that negotiations occur daily. The panel, titled “Getting Out of Your Own Way: How to Negotiate Your Way to the Top” featured attorneys and professionals in the legal industry discussing how people negotiate in daily life.
December 10, 2024
Bryce Sanders, president of Perceptive Business Solutions Inc., provides HNW client acquisition training for the financial services industry. Sanders writes that lawyers on television series and movies often have clients seeking them out, but in real life, attorneys are expected to bring clients into private practice.
December 3, 2024
Recruitment attorney Mike Evers advises corporations to make use of LinkedIn’s newsfeed features. The platform’s newsfeed helps supplement networking and boosts awareness of an attorney’s profile to potential employers. Evers suggests that a company’s LinkedIn newsfeed should feature posts of positive news from the company, legal developments from the industry and helpful tips for the community.
August 26, 2024
Law firms are on track to post “one of the strongest years we see” in 2024, according to a report this week, after notching demand and productivity growth as well as double-digit revenue growth during the first six months of the year.
August 1, 2024
The largest firms in the biggest cities have been “picking their heads up” again on the lateral market, and they are seeing opportunities in corporate, finance, white-collar and investment management and funds work.
July 9, 2024
Attorney headcounts at the 500 largest law firms in the United States continued to grow in 2023, though growth rates subsided to pre-pandemic levels after accelerating in 2022.