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Choosing the Right Lateral Partner Recruiter Matters: Here’s Where to Begin
As a lateral partner, finding the right legal recruiter to help you navigate the complex process can feel like a serious uphill battle. You’re sifting through a sea of recruiters, all vying for your attention, promising to have the best connections and...
Why Lawyers Work Weekend (and do you have to?)
The truth about the law is that lawyers work long hours. Often this extends to nights and weekends. It’s common for lawyers to work up to 80 hours per week, and 75% of lawyers report frequently working outside of regular business hours — with the burnout to prove it....
Top 5 Reasons Partners Make a Lateral Move
There was a time when becoming a partner at a law firm meant that you would stay until death or retirement. But over the last few decades, that has changed. Partners now work for firms more as free agents than lawyers immutably bound to the firm. This...
The Lateral Partner Questionnaire (LPQ)
The Lateral Partner Questionnaire is a crucial step in the lateral partner recruiting process. The LPQ is an overview of your recent legal career. It includes information about your book of business, your future expectations, and how much you charge. Firms use...
Is Your Law Firm a Good Fit?
Practicing law is a challenging profession with long hours and tough intellectual challenges. Far from a deterrent, the challenges and rewards often attract lawyers to the profession in the first place. Well, maybe you (we) didn’t go seeking long hours exactly,...