Law Firm Talent Wars: They're Not Just for Associates Anymore | The American Lawyer - The American Lawyer

What You Need to Know

• Law firms struggled to recruit and retain secretaries and support staff in 2021, forcing firm leaders to pay closer attention to their workplace satisfaction.
• Secretarial and support functions are becoming more tech specialized and practice area-focused.

Due to shifting workplace preferences and a reemergence of trial work out of a pandemic-era stupor, litigation practices large and small are facing high rates of churn among legal support professionals, giving an often undervalued sector of the legal industry’s workforce an upper hand in recruitment.

Flexible schedules, higher pay and inclusion in executive decision-making have become the bargaining chips used to lure away legal assistants from firms they’ve been at for many years or to ward off potential poaching, according to legal industry leaders and secretaries.

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source: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2021/11/12/law-firm-talent-wars-theyre-not-just-for-associates-anymore/

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