The National Creditors Bar Association Law Practice Management Blog

There are a number of different ways to look for new staff as a law firm, whether you’re seeking attorneys, paralegals or administrat ors .  But, it’s also kind of a crapshoot .  And, it’s also sort of true that the best hires usually come from your personal network.   Now, if you’re an experienced attorney who owns a law firm, the problem is that you may not know the people you want to hire .  If you’ve got 20 years’ experience, and have run your own firm for the last 10 – you likely don’t know any attorneys with 3 years’ experience, or a newly-minted paralegal, or a recent college graduate, who could become an administrative assistant at your firm.     But, you know who might know those sorts of people ?  Your existing staff.     So, empower your staff to help you find candidates for new roles .  Heck, if you like to work with your staff, their friends are probably also the sort of people you’d like to work with . ...

There are two primary ways that attorneys look to fill jobs in their law firms .  First, they access their personal network s ; and, next: they look at traditional job posting services, like ZipRecruiter or Indeed .   B ut , wh at if you strike out there ?  W ha t’s ne xt?   Well, social media services have job posting options, as well .  And, they may be better than the traditional alternatives .  Facebook and LinkedI n have job posting platforms; and, X (formerly, and forever, Twitter, as far as I’m concerned) will have one shortly .  What makes these options different is that you can align your job posting with your social presence, giving your candidates a wider window into who you are, and what you stand for – at least as far as your business principles are concerned .  Plus, these systems have huge numbers of users, which will wide n the group of potential candidates you can access , outside of just active job seekers .   Som...

I’ve got some surprising news: some lawyer didn’t invent the idea of CRM software .  Neither were the relational databases that serve as the backbone for law practice management softwares built for law firms .  But, that’s okay .  Because lots of software is derivative – including within the legal vertical, where there are uncountable numbers of copycats of Clio and RocketMatter , which introduced the first cloud-based case management softwares to lawyers.   Is any legal version of a CRM going to be as impactful , widely-used or feature-rich as Salesforce is ?   Decidedly not .  So, you may be asking yourself the question – Why would I ever use any legal software, if it’s not as good as the alternatives ?  Don’t I want to be using the best software?     Well, yes; but, let me add an important caveat to that formulation: You want to be using the best software for your law firm , which means that you may not end up choosing the wo...