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Law Practice Management: Keep Your Top Talent by Developing an Effective Retention Plan
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
As business conditions continue to improve, talented law professionals are feeling more confident about their job prospects. While this is good news for attorneys and legal support staff, it presents a challenge for those in law practice management. A recent Robert Half Legal survey indicated that 31 percent of lawyers surveyed are concerned about losing […]
4 Legal Jobs Trends to Watch in 2016
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
The new year is a good time to take stock of your career and investigate what the legal job market has in store. Whether you’re seeking a new position or asking for a raise, it’s important to research the latest hiring trends and salary ranges for the legal jobs that interest you the most. Here […]
7 Law Practice Management Tips for Better Legal Hiring
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
As the market for highly skilled legal professionals continues to tighten, the applicant pool for many roles is shrinking. The Robert Half Legal 2016 Salary Guide predicts the most in-demand practice areas for legal hiring will be litigation, business/corporate law, compliance, real estate, intellectual property, healthcare, and contract administration. If your business is focusing on new clients […]
6 Tips to Boost Your Team Communication Skills
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
In today’s team-based environment, good communication is essential to being able to do your job well. As a legal professional, your interactions with your coworkers and other employees may be direct and real-time, such as project team meetings, or they may consist of written memos, email or instant messages. Regardless of how you interact, the […]
Legal Job Search Tips to Revamp Your Resume and Enhance Your Marketability
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
Whether you’ve been looking for a new legal job for a while or one of your career goals for 2016 is to ramp up your job search, you know it’s possible to send out dozens of resumes and never get a single call. Although this is frustrating, the good news is there’s something you can […]
Legal Job Advice: What Managers Can Do to Boost Productivity
By Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
So much of a legal job is time sensitive: deadlines for filings, affidavits, statutes of limitation and more. There’s no time to waste, yet your team occasionally suffers from procrastination. As a manager, it’s up to you to identify and address the reasons for delays before they negatively affect your team’s productivity. Let’s take a look […]