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Effective Practices for Onboarding Flexible Legal Talent
How to Onboard Flexible Legal Talent: Tips for Legal Teams Flexible legal talent enables law firms and legal departments to scale efficiently, bringing in experienced attorneys when and where they’re needed. But how do you onboard them effectively? Onboarding flexible legal talent — whether interim counsel, a contract attorney, or a seconded lawyer — is…
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Legal Talent in the Age of AI
Legal Talent in the Age of AI: Evolving Strategies for Legal Departments Many legal teams have incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) technology into their operations. Whether the team is using ChatGPT to help draft emails or utilizing legal technology with added layers of AI functionality, most are navigating the early stages of understanding how best to…
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Enhance Your Firm’s Bidding Strategy with Flexible Talent
In law firm business development, a common challenge is crafting compelling, competitive bids without straining existing resources or budgets. Imagine your firm is poised to bid for a lucrative project, but you don’t have the necessary expertise on your current team to meet the client’s requirements. You could hire a full-time team member, but since…
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How Law Firms Are Leveraging Flexible Legal Talent
How Law Firms Are Leveraging Flexible Legal Talent Law firms face constant pressure to adapt to changing market and client demands and maintain high service quality. One strategy that can effectively address these challenges is leveraging flexible legal talent, such as interim, supplemental, and fractional attorneys, who offer top-notch expertise and the agility needed to…
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Remote and Hybrid Hiring Trends for Legal Departments and Law Firms
Remote and Hybrid Hiring: Key Trends for Legal Departments and Law Firms The landscape of work has evolved significantly over the past few years, with remote and hybrid work arrangements becoming a defining feature of modern employment. As we progress through 2024, understanding these trends can help corporate legal department and law firm leaders position…
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Observations on the Legal Talent Market: Q1 2024
Observations on the Legal Talent Market: Q1 2024 The legal talent market is a multifaceted, evolving landscape. Latitude is an active player in the market, serving large and small legal departments as well as law firms by providing them with contract attorneys (flexible talent) and attorneys for permanent hire. With Q1 in the books, we…
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Is Building a Specialized Legal Talent Vertical Right for Your Firm?
The rate at which law firms have increased their use of captive ALSPs confirms a burgeoning acceptance and adoption of alternative legal business approaches. One subset of this is flexible legal talent, an alternative talent solution that offers the pliability to swiftly adapt to changing demand. As a law firm, building your own flexible legal…
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Innovative Ways to Leverage Flexible Legal Talent
Innovative Engagement Strategies for Flexible Legal Talent In today’s dynamic legal landscape, flexible legal talent has emerged as a transformative solution that offers adaptability and efficiency for corporate legal departments. The appeal of flexible legal talent lies in its capacity to furnish agile solutions to a diverse array of ever-evolving business challenges. In this article,…
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Use of Specialized ALSP Legal Services Continues to Rise
Law Firms and Legal Departments Continue to Increase Use of ALSPs, Including Specialized Attorney Staffing Companies Recently, Thomson Reuters Institute (in partnership with The Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law and Oxford University’s Saïd Business School) released a report of findings from their fourth biennial survey of Alternative Legal Services Providers…
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Responding to the Great Resignation: How to Retain Top Talent by Creating a Culture of Meaning
While a global pandemic proved to be a boon for the legal industry generally, it also served as a wake-up call for many attorneys. Now in the midst of the Great Resignation, many professionals, attorneys among them, are deciding that a fat paycheck is not the only (or even, most important) career motivator. No longer…
