by Molly McGrath | Oct 19, 2022 | Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development
I’ve worked with thousands of attorneys in my career and nearly without exception, all have said that the hardest part about running a law firm is retaining an engaged team. Weird? Well, not really when you consider that lawyers are trained to practice law, not...
by Molly McGrath | Oct 11, 2022 | Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development
There are 600,000 more open jobs available today than there were at the end of 2021. That’s right: 11.5 million jobs are just waiting to be filled right now, compared to 10.9 million at the end of the 2021, and 6.7 million at the end of 2019—our last “normal” year....
by Molly McGrath | Oct 3, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
You don’t become an attorney without a healthy dose of ambition, which is why so many in the profession suffer when they hit their mid-career slump. You studied, stressed, and ultimately survived law school. You passed the bar, waded into the sharky waters of the job...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 21, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
There are two types of attorneys: those that spend their day worrying about what their admin team is (or isn’t) doing and those that spend their day micromanaging their admins to relieve this worry. Neither is good—not for you, not for your firm, and not for your...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 14, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Decreasing Stress, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
When you started law school you knew it was going to be busy, stressful, and hard but if someone had told you then that ten, fifteen, or twenty years on you’d be struggling to carve out vacation time and have no margin for self-care, you might not have signed up....
