by Molly McGrath | Apr 30, 2019 | Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
The unemployment rate is about as low as it’s ever been, holding steady at 3.8% throughout February and March. For employees, this is great news! For the U.S. economy, even better! But for your boutique law firm? Scary. In an economic climate that is so conducive to...
by Molly McGrath | Apr 25, 2019 | Communication, Increasing Business, Team Empowerment
You’ve been at this for a while. You know that happy, engaged employees are essential to the growth of your firm. And you know this is cyclical: driven team members drive growth, growth drives motivation, motivation feeds happiness. Keeping this wheel turning is...
by Molly McGrath | Apr 16, 2019 | Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Increasing Business
“This resume is totally unqualified, why are you sending me this candidate?” In our 20+ years in the legal recruiting and staffing industry, we’ve heard this question a lot—most recently about a week ago. The attorney we were working with wanted to hire a paralegal...
by Molly McGrath | Apr 10, 2019 | Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
Law firm leaders are tasked with the challenge of setting the direction of the entire organization. To be worthy of a leadership role, an individual must be respected and influential. They must be effective revenue generators with a long list of distinguished legal...
by Molly McGrath | Apr 4, 2019 | Communication, Increasing Business, Systems
People call your law firm because they are ready to hire you. But time after time, when I speak with law firm leaders about their struggles, I hear the same old bologna: “They were unqualified leads.” “They were just shopping around; they weren’t ready to write a...