Recruiting Top Legal Talent: Leading Lawyers on Building a Recruitment Program, Attracting and Evaluating Candidates, and Effectively Using Retention Tools (Inside the Minds)

Recruiting Top Legal Talent provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for successfully reaching and attracting both associate and partner-level attorneys. Featuring managing partners from law firms across the country, this book offers invaluable perspectives on common law firm recruitment issues such as connecting with law schools, handling questions of diversity, and negotiating employment offers. From interviewing associates to finding partners through headhunting firms, these leaders highlight the challenges of hiring at all levels and offer expertise on determining appropriate compensation, using retention tools, and establishing a firm's core values. These top lawyers discuss recent trends that are affecting attorney recruitment and retention, including new hiring structures, diminished financial resources, and changes in associate programs. Additionally, these authors reveal their strategies for identifying and supporting career goals at both the associate and partner levels, and discuss how marketing and recruitment must coordinate their efforts. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds of today, as these experts identify the winning tactics in law firm recruitment and retention. Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives and lawyers (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies and firms nationwide. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is heading and the most important issues for the future. Each author has been selected based upon their experience and C-level standing within the professional community. Chapters Include: 1. Candace A. Blydenburgh, Partner, Bowman and Brooke LLP - "Recruitment and Retention as a Form of Marketing: Recent Challenges for Recruiting Top Legal Talent" 2. Michael A. Moynihan, Partner, Freeborn & Peters LLP - "Challenges and Opportunities in Recruiting and Retaining Legal Talent" 3. T. Michael Ward, Managing Principal, Brown & James PC - "Recruitment and Retention of Top Legal Talent in the Current Economic Situation" 4. Robert Caplan, Managing Member, Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek - "Responding to Recruiting Challenges in a Tough Economy" 5. Steven W. Lundberg and Warren D. Woessner, Founding Partners, Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner - "Recruiting with the Stars" Appendices Include: Appendix A: Sample Marketing Plan Appendix B: Sample Partner Profile Appendix C: Sample New Associate Orientation Schedule Appendix D: Sample Associate Training Schedule Appendix E: Sample Mutual Agreement to Arbitrate Claims