Are you thinking about partnering with a recruiter that can assist you with an upcoming job search? If so, that ensuing relationship will be somewhat influenced by your current employment status and situation. Once you’ve contacted a recruiter, keeping the lines of communication open will help ensure that your job search goes off without a hitch. Using these contact guidelines as a reference will make the placement process run smoothly.
Legal and Compliance Executive Search Blog
Qualities to Look for When Choosing a Legal Recruiter
There are thousands of legal recruiters in the US and some are better than others. As a potential client, not knowing what to look for in a legal recruiter can be disastrous. Here’s a recent example of two candidates who mistakenly placed their trust in the same legal recruiting firm:
“My husband and I both submitted our resume to the agency to help in our job search. We submitted our resumes separately, of course and we both received an email back saying they do not have the resources to help us. Both of us have 15 years of experience, so I am not sure who they help.”
How In-House Counsel Candidates Can Shine in Interviews
Years ago, the Texas energy industry was thriving, and candidates were driving the hiring process. Candidates could sit back and let the client sell them on why they should move from a job that is stable and fulfilling to an even better opportunity. But our legal headhunters saw a dramatic shift recently. Corporations suddenly held the bargaining chip – a job. Sometimes, the job was pulled before an offer went out to the selected finalist due to other corporate constraints.
Texas Legal Recruiters See Demand For Legal Operations Specialists Continue To Rise
As legal and compliance recruiters in Texas, we continue to work with corporations who are improving their legal operations and getting more out of every dollar of legal spend. General Counsels remain focused on optimizing performance and creating new efficiencies in order to positively contribute to the bottom-line. Creating a well-run legal machine with enhanced productivity and improved efficiencies requires lawyers to combine their legal knowledge with business judgement. Enter stage right – Legal Operations Specialists – now indispensable members of the corporate legal team. Legal Operations Specialists arrive at their specialty through myriad paths, from legal work as an attorney or paralegal, an I.T. background, accounting, or other internal operations.
New Rules for Waiving in to the Texas Bar
New rules have been announced for lawyers seeking Admission Without Examination (waive-in) to be admitted in Texas. Currently in order to be licensed in Texas without taking the Texas Bar Examination, you must demonstrate that you:
- Hold a J.D. from an ABA-approved U.S. law school
- Are licensed to practice law in another state
- Have been actively and substantially engaged in the lawful practice of law as your principal business or occupation for at least 5 of the 7 years immediately preceding your application
- Have never failed the Texas Bar Examination
What defines a successful legal career?
SUC·CESS /səkˈses/
The accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Antonym: failure.
The attainment of popularity or profit. Prosperity, prosperousness, successfulness, affluence, wealth, opulence and luxury. Antonyms: failure, poverty.
A person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity. Synonyms: triumph, bestseller, box-office success, sellout, coup. Antonyms: failure, flop, disaster.
Enthusiastic Job Seekers Sought
Showing Enthusiasm in Your Job Search and Interviews Helps Land You the Job
ENTHUSIASM (noun) – a great eagerness to be involved in a particular activity that you like and enjoy or that you think is important. Intense and eager enjoyment; interest.
Compensation Conundrum: To Disclose or Not Disclose
So far, fifteen states have enacted legislation that precludes employers from asking about current compensation from job applicants. Texas being a pro-business state, this type of legislation has not been enacted in Texas and was not a topic of discussion in the current legislative session, nor will it likely be in two years when the session meets again. So, the question for Texas job applicants continues: “Should I disclose my current compensation in a job interview or application”?
Ready to Accept that Job Offer? Thinking about a Counteroffer?
While working with legal professionals looking for a new job, compensation is of course one of the primary things we discuss. Unless you’re a lawyer working for a big AmLaw firm with stair-step salaries, it’s important to do your homework and have all the facts before you accept an offer, or a counteroffer is made. Maybe they did “hit you with their best shot”, putting significant thought and consideration into your offer. If you’re working with a recruiter, they should be able to offer insight into their client about “wiggle room” in the budget, additional equity or that available corner office. But, before you accept or a potential insult is delivered and a counteroffer ill received, know the facts.
Law Firm Hiring in 2019 – How to attract and hire the ones you want!
With unemployment at a record low, it’s more challenging than ever for law firms to find and hire lateral attorneys. In this red-hot Texas market, job seekers need to be enticed to leave their current jobs. We’ve found most of the on-point candidates are ones we’ve “headhunted”. Sometimes they are passively in the job market, keeping an eye on job boards or checking-in with us periodically to “test the waters”. Often, we are starting from scratch.