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Ask the Right Questions, Get the Right Hire Via Remote Interviewing

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Techniques and important guidelines that will help an attorney conduct remote interviews that are efficient and help to lead to quality candidates for hire.

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Lateral Hiring: 7 Reasons Why Law Firms Fail

Catherine Dineen & Blane R. Prescott

Firms routinely report that hiring lateral partners is a difficult process with a low success rate. Why do they struggle with lateral hiring? More importantly, what can they do to improve their results?

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10 Top Strategies for Retaining Tomorrow's Talent

Sharon Meit Abrahams

All lawyers want to be wanted and valued by their firms. It has become apparent that tomorrow's legal talent requires even more hand-holding than previous generations. They want to understand why and what's the payoff of their efforts. By creating a firm culture that addresses these concerns you will heighten your firm's ability to retain precious talent.

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10 Top Strategies for Retaining Tomorrow's Talent

Sharon Meit Abrahams

All lawyers want to be wanted and valued by their firms. It has become apparent that tomorrow's legal talent requires even more hand-holding than previous generations because the "just do it" attitude, does not work. They want to understand why and what's the payoff of their efforts. By creating a firm culture that addresses these concerns you will heighten your firm's ability to retain precious talent.

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Cybersecurity Experts Needed in U.S.

Scott R. Malyk & Lin R. Walker

The Country Is In Dire Need of Experts Who Possess the Advanced Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required to Combat Cybersecurity Crimes In an effort to protect our financial, personal, medical, and otherwise confidential data, as well as our election systems, we need to continue to attract and employ the services of the most qualified cybersecurity experts from around the world. However, at present, there is a dire shortage of such qualified experts in the United States.

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Players on the Move

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A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Law Firm Diversity Roundtable

Steve Salkin

Creating an Environment Attractive to Diverse Lawyers Where They Can Rise to the Leadership Level A roundtable discussion with four prominent leaders in law and recruiting who weigh in what firms are doing — and can do — to create environments that are attractive to diverse lawyers and enable them to rise to the leadership level.

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Professional Development: Firm Culture As Your Competitive Recruiting and Engagement Advantage

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Future attorneys are seeking the right place to launch their careers; therefore, by promoting your firm's unique culture, you can more effectively attract and retain the best talent for your firm.

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Hiring Practices and the FCPA

Philip M. Berkowitz

While laws such as the FCPA do not necessarily prohibit hiring individuals with criminal records or bad credit records or who are former government officials, they do require employers to identify these individuals and assess whether their hire would pose a threat, violate the laws outright or impose an administratively difficult burden due to the need to monitor their activities.

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Can Millennials Save Your Law Firm?

Lizzy McLellan

<b><i>After Years of Complacency About Their Business Model and the Pipeline for Talent, There's a Reason Law Firms Are So Worried About Managing the Millennial Generation</b></i><p>For law firms wringing their hands about how to manage the millennial generation — or asking why they should adapt to this crop of young lawyers in the first place — here's the bad news: If you're still clinging to traditional models for training associates and running the partnership, you've already fallen behind. The millennials are here, they're climbing the ranks, and they've already begun to transform the industry.

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