Personal branding creates a recognizable name for yourself. In simplest terms, it is the process of letting the world (or at least the legal community) know who you are. All too few law professionals focus on the development of their personal brand, which means doing so is a great way to separate yourself from the competition in the eyes of employers (i.e. private law firms). This review discusses the benefits of personal branding for lawyers, particularly as it relates to employment purposes.
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Jane Pollard, Guest Speaker at the 2022 Seminar on AD Valorem Taxation
As a longstanding presence in the Texas legal field and participant in national legal events, Momentum Search Partners is proud to have joined more than 500 attorneys, policy makers, consultants, and real estate professionals at the 35th Annual Legal Seminar on AD Valorem Taxation.
Hiring Challenges the Austin Legal Industry is Facing Today
The legal industry, encompassing law firms and corporate legal departments, is currently navigating a complex hiring landscape. Despite acclimating to the post-COVID-19 world, staffing shortages persist due to a combination of factors. As Momentum Legal founder Jane Pollard noted at the 35th Annual Legal Seminar on Ad Valorem Taxation, the U.S. had seen 126 months of economic growth and an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent at the end of 2019, both record-breaking numbers.
Why Your Austin Firm Isn’t Finding the Dream Candidate
If your Austin-area firm finds itself struggling to find ideal legal candidates, know that you aren’t alone. Multiple businesses across various market sectors can’t find job candidates at all in this difficult environment. According to CNBC, “roughly 47.4 million people voluntarily left their jobs for better work during the pandemic and Great Resignation [in 2021]. For comparison, 42.1 million people quit in 2019, at the time considered the tightest labor market on record.” While legal markets have begun to recover, finding the right candidate for the job remains a challenge for many firms, partnerships, and companies.
State of the Dallas Legal Market as We Head into 2023
While the Dallas-Fort Worth area has traditionally been a booming economic market in general and a growing legal market more specifically, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have somewhat shifted the city’s traditional legal efforts. Financial services, commercial real estate, and litigation have suffered somewhat, but they’ve begun to recover from the worst effects of the pandemic.
How Austin Recruiters are Essential to Inclusion, Diversity & Equality
Diversity is defined as “the condition of having or being composed of differing elements; variety; the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, etc. in a group or organization” by Merriam-Webster. While all of us would conclude that promoting diversity and inclusion in recruitment is a positive thing, precious few organizations seem to achieve it, particularly at higher levels of an organization. A 2020 study published by Stanford University found, “Racially diverse executives hold only 16 percent of total C-suite positions. … Twenty-six of the Fortune 100 have no ethnic diversity at the C+1 level, and 6 have no ethnic or gender diversity at this level.”
Why Relocating Lawyers Should Consider the Austin Legal Market
Relocating your talents as an attorney is an exciting time as you explore endless possibilities based on your personal goals and experience. With all the practice destinations out there, making the best relocation decision isn’t always easy when your career weighs in the balance. As one of the hottest legal climates in the entire country, Austin, Texas, should be included on any prospecting lawyer’s watch list. Here’s why you should consider the Austin legal market when making a career change in 2022 and beyond.
3 Signs Your Company Needs a Recruiter to Fill an Opening
As a hiring manager, sifting through reams of candidate resumes and conducting countless interviews can seem like a full-time job when you’ve already got a full plate. Finding enough talented candidates with the skills and experience necessary – ones that will stick around for a while – is not only very time consuming, but can be like searching for a needle in the proverbial haystack and take the hiring manager away from other important aspects of his job. There is also a hidden cost for every attorney hire that goes unfilled, such as higher outside counsel fees or risks that are being taken by the business because no lawyer is reviewing the deal or the contract. Working with a legal recruiter is one way to lighten the hiring manager’s load so that they can focus on the other aspects of their job description. A legal recruiter will also lower the company’s indirect costs of having an attorney opening go unfilled by helping the company make a hire more quickly, more efficiently, and more effectively. Here are three signs that it might be the right decision for your company.
We’re pleased to congratulate Kevin Trautner and Zach Gaver
Momentum Search Partners is pleased to congratulate Kevin Trautner and Gravity Oilfield Services for his one-year anniversary as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and for Gravity’s recent hire of Zach Gaver as Commercial Counsel. A graduate of UVA Law School, Kevin has extensive experience providing legal services to the energy industry, both in private practice and in-house. Kevin was a partner at several prestigious AmLaw 100 firms in Houston, and has over 25 years of experience advising public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities filings, board matters, complex high-risk issues and corporate governance matters.
Tech Companies are Moving to Austin: Will it Affect New Hires?
Spurred on by strict regulations, high taxes, and an inflated housing market, the mass migration of tech companies from Silicon Valley to Austin, TX, shows no signs of slowing down. Within the last year or so, Oracle, 8VC, FireTrail, and Question Pro announced plans to move their corporate headquarters to Austin, aka “Silicon Hills.”