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Eight Ways Flexible Legal Talent Makes Law Firms Stronger
It’s common for law firms to treat headcount as fixed and demand as variable. The result is lawyers working longer hours when demand spikes and the firm carrying excess capacity when it slows. Flexible legal talent—experienced contract attorneys brought in on a flexible basis—offers another approach: maintaining a strong permanent team while adding experienced lawyers…
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How In-House Legal Leaders Are Approaching AI: Lessons from Peer Conversations
Artificial intelligence has increasingly become part of everyday work and conversation within legal departments, and with each new development comes both new possibilities and new questions. As organizations continue exploring how AI can improve efficiency, strengthen decision-making, and better support the business, legal leaders are also thinking carefully about governance, professional development, and how to…
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Personal Branding, Visibility, and Career Growth for Attorneys in Today’s Legal Job Market
Most of us can identify a handful of moments that changed the trajectory of our careers. Some are obvious: a move in-house, a promotion or a chance to work in a new industry. Others arrive unexpectedly through a corporate RIF, a new boss, a merger or acquisition, resulting in a role that suddenly looks very…
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Evaluating New Legal Department Capabilities with Flexibility
A legal department is supporting a significant commercial initiative while also managing a growing volume of day-to-day requests. At the same time, new privacy considerations are emerging, a major transaction is accelerating, and a senior team member is preparing for an extended leave. The general counsel recognizes the department may benefit from additional resources or…
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Interview Tips for Attorneys: Telling a Compelling Career Story
If you think back on the most engaging conversations you’ve had, they likely weren’t an exchange of bullet points. They were stories. Stories that unfolded naturally. That connect ideas. That kept you engaged and following along—and made it easy to remember later. Interviews are conversations. So, why not approach them in the same way? For…
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How Flexible Attorneys Keep Legal Teams Moving at Full Speed
When an experienced relief pitcher heads out to the mound mid-game, they understand the situation they’re stepping into—what the score is, what the stakes are, and what the team needs from them in that moment. Bringing a contract attorney onto a legal team often works in much the same way. Flexible attorneys typically join teams…
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De-Risking Lateral Partner Hires with Flexible Legal Talent
Lateral partner recruiting has become a higher-stakes exercise, as law firms use lateral hiring as a growth engine, and bidding wars for partners—particularly those with large books of business—have intensified, raising both the potential upside and the cost of getting it wrong. As a recent Law.com article reports, firms are responding by conducting more diligence, and doing so…
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Legal Career Stories: Amber Hilliard on Building a Career with Flexibility
Who chooses to work on a contract engagement basis? What kinds of opportunities exist? And what do the career paths of attorneys doing this work really look like? We often hear these questions from attorneys at all stages of their careers. The answers are more nuanced—and often more compelling—than people expect. In our experience, for…
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Flexible Litigation Attorneys and Law Firm Staffing Strategies
Flexible Litigation Attorneys and Law Firm Staffing Strategies By: Andrew Cary. Andrew is a Partner at Latitude and founder of the company’s San Francisco Bay Area office. A former Partner at Am Law 100 firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, he has more than 20 years of experience advising and representing businesses in complex litigation matters, including…
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Why AI Is Likely to Increase Legal Demand—Not Reduce It
Every major technology introduced to make lawyers more efficient has ultimately increased the demand for legal work. In theory, email was supposed to streamline communication. Document review technology was supposed to reduce staffing needs. In reality, both technologies changed behaviors, raised expectations, and expanded the volume of work flowing through legal teams. Today, some argue…
