On this episode of Reinventing Professionals, Ari Kaplan speaks with Jonathan Friedman, founder and managing partner of Friedman Williams, a specialized recruiting firm serving law firms and corporate organizations across legal, finance, HR, marketing, IT, and administrative staffing. Jonathan, who has worked in staffing and recruiting since 1997 and founded Friedman Williams in […]
The Friedman Williams Focus — Volume 1, Issue 2 is live. 📰 This issue starts with a costly reality: the lateral market is the hottest it’s been in five years, but roughly half of lateral partners underperform or leave within five years of joining. The issue often isn’t the lawyer’s ability. It’s what happens after […]
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 […]