by Molly McGrath | Oct 14, 2018 | Decreasing Stress, Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
Innovation and lawyering don’t always go hand-in-hand. However, any business growth guru (us included) will tell you that any business, in any industry, needs innovation to thrive. It’s through innovation that businesses gain and maintain a competitive edge, and law...
by Molly McGrath | Oct 4, 2018 | Decreasing Stress, Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
Earlier this month—and maybe you’ve followed the story—a careless attorney, wanting to appeal a contempt order issued against his client, was forced to seek an extension of time due to a Microsoft Word failure. Trust us, we completely understand how quickly an...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 25, 2018 | Communication, Hiring, Hiring & Firing, Systems, Team Empowerment, Team Training
You’ve gone through the hassle of hiring a new employee. You’ve reviewed overwhelming stacks of resumes, conducted countless interviews (most of them a complete waste of time), and made a final decision. You’ve invested time and energy training this person, developing...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 19, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
In small law, oftentimes the biggest differentiator between firms that “make it” and firms that don’t is one simple thing: employee training and development. The value a firm places on finding, recruiting and hiring the best-of-the-best lawyers, paralegals, and legal...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 13, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
It’s inevitable: every employee will eventually drop that pay raise bomb on you. We’ve seen it a thousand times: an employee builds up a laundry list of grudges—I’ve done this, this and that and never get recognized for my hard work and no one appreciates me—and they...