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Exit Interviews and Your Firm's Culture

Through the process of conducting exit interviews with the good attorneys who have left, along with those the firm has asked to leave, you can gather intel about your firm's culture. The business justification for doing exit interviews is to learn about and improve systematic organizational or interpersonal issues that may be adversely impacting your firm.

13 minute read October 02, 2017 at 12:02 AM
By
Sharon Meit Abrahams
Exit Interviews and Your Firm's Culture

Research has shown that it costs around $300,000 to bring in and train new attorneys. That's an expensive investment and one worth preserving.

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