A certain baseline level of associate turnover is expected at nearly every law firm, from Biglaw to smaller, boutique firms — and to some extent, associate turnover is inevitable. Even if the firm has been “good to them,” after a few years, many associates begin...
As of 2017, the legal industry is still rather slow to adopt new technology and integrate such technology into the work environment — and to some degree, the general disinterest showcased by the legal industry is justified. Truly market-shifting, cohesive, and comprehensive legal technology is...
The legal industry — like many other professional industries — has been slowly, but surely making strides in improving representation of women, minorities, and various other underrepresented groups. Diversity is more than just a trend, however, or even a social responsibility — statistics show that more...
In Big Law, both in California and elsewhere, gender diversity remains a hot-button issue, and for good reason. Women are routinely underrepresented in the large firm environment overall, and this lack of representation is even more severe when taking into account leadership positions at Big...
Making a career move can be overwhelming, at first — whether you’re transitioning from a position you hate or a position you love, the thought of landing up at a firm or in-house legal department where you are forced to deal with cynical, frustrating, and...
Associate satisfaction at a particular law firm can shift drastically on account of a number of different factors, from the nature of the work culture, to compensation, to transparency, to legal support infrastructure, technology, and more. Parsing out what factors influence associate satisfaction is quite...
Attorney compensation varies significantly across the industry, depending on a number of different factors. Chiefly, however, the overall attorney compensation scheme flows from the particular industry in which you practice. Biglaw and in-house compensation schemes are quite different, for example, with Biglaw firms generally paying...
In the Biglaw industry, lateral recruitment is exceedingly common, if not somewhat expected, after a length of time. Long gone are the days where an attorney would — in most circumstances — necessarily feel a need to stay at their initial firm and build a...
If you’ve been employed as an attorney in the legal industry for a reasonable length of time, chances are that you’ve watched colleagues come and go through the constantly revolving door of the hiring process (which includes, of course, the transition to a new firm). ...
From law school, through to the early years of being an associate, to transitioning to a new position, attorneys in California (and across the country) have built a confused, conflicted mythos surrounding law firm interviews. Candidates re-entering the recruitment process are just as likely to...
