Hiring permanent legal staff through a recruiter generally follows six steps: define the role and the profile of your ideal candidate through a real conversation with the recruiter, work with a recruiter that has a dedicated legal recruiting team, let the recruiter source and personally interview candidates against your standards, review a curated shortlist rather […]
The best legal staffing agency for your firm is one with a dedicated attorney and paralegal recruiting team — not a generalist recruiter that occasionally fills legal roles — that personally interviews and reference-checks every candidate before a resume ever reaches you, offers flexible engagement models from temporary coverage through direct hire and executive search, […]
The article was originally published to ALM’s Law.com, here. There is a statistic that baseball fans know in their bones: a hitter who succeeds three times out of ten is bound for the Hall of Fame, and seven failures out of ten is the very standard of greatness. It is a forgiving way to keep […]
This is the fourth and final installment in our series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms. The first three installments covered private equity consolidation, the collapse of the CPA pipeline, and the compensation reset that has caught most firms flat footed. Together, they have made one specific mistake more expensive […]
Introducing The Friedman Williams Focus — Insights for Law Firm Strategies! Volume 1, Issue 1 is live. This issue starts with a simple problem: law firms that spend extraordinary care vetting lateral partners often hire their CFO, COO, or CMO with a fraction of that rigor. The result is a mistake that’s expensive, slow to […]
This is the third blog post in our four-part series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms. In the previous post, we looked at how the CPA pipeline has collapsed faster than firms have adjusted. The compensation reset is the direct consequence. The accounting executive talent pool is not just smaller than […]
This is the second post in our four-part blog series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms. In the first post, we looked at how private equity has rewritten the C-suite job at accounting firms. The labor market that has to fill those redefined roles is the second structural story — and […]
This is the first post in a four-part blog series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms — and how the same forces are showing up in the law firms we work with every day. Private equity has been diving into accounting firms and acquiring them at a pace the legal world […]