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‘Golden handcuffs’ off for employers following migration changes
Recent changes to the Migration Act have “ushered in a pivotal change” for employers, presenting both challenges...
12 August 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Using social recruitment to attract top talent
These days, candidates are more informed due to the abundance of information about the company available online. Thus,...
15 August 2023
By Karen Frenkiel and Julia Storie
The Corporate Counsel Show: Talent, tech, and other challenges in FY24
Law department leaders will face significant challenges in the new financial year, however, effective utilisation of...
12 July 2023
By Robyn Tongol
Law firms ‘seeing the importance’ of talent retention
The publication of the sixth National Profile of Solicitors report has shown that the profession — and private...
15 May 2023
By Lauren Croft
How to win the war for legal talent
The executive director of the Centre for Legal Innovation discussed the key things employers could do to attract and...
07 March 2023
By Jess Feyder
Legal employers must ‘work smarter and capitalise’ on women’s talent
Since getting her first role in the mid-’90s, this legal people and culture manager has seen massive growth within...
02 February 2023
By Lauren Croft
‘Experienced and talented’ senior and mid-level lawyers ‘are extremely hard to find’
Whilst the recruitment of senior and mid-level lawyers has always been a challenge for firms, a global pandemic and the...
05 December 2022
By Lauren Croft
‘Boutique firms can pick up some real talent’ despite recession
In a candidate-driven market, how can boutique and SME firms compete with BigLaw firms in the war for talent — and...
24 November 2022
By Lauren Croft
Address the tech skills divide, or ‘see a flood of talent leave your doors’
The disparity in proficiency with legal technology is a pertinent yet somewhat covert issue facing the legal...
13 October 2022
By Jess Feyder
How prosecutors can retain top talent
The challenge facing prosecutorial employers, Aaron Guilfoyle says, is that once a prosecutor succeeds, they’re...
11 July 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
How digital badging tech is shaking up the war on talent
The war on talent is raging across a wide range of professions, and the legal industry is no different, writes Nicholas...
05 July 2022
By Nicholas Robert
‘Law firms need to focus on people more than ever’, says Hall & Wilcox head
In order to attract and retain talent, firms need to be evolving and growing – both in terms of their ways of working...
02 March 2022
By Lauren Croft
Talent retention tops list of post-pandemic concerns for executives
New research from Gartner reveals that the ability of companies to deliver value propositions that satisfy employees...
08 February 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Change is at the heart of everything we do’: How HSF attracts talent
For Herbert Smith Freehills, the key to ranking highly in the Legal Firm of Choice Survey came down to ensuring its...
09 September 2019
By Naomi Neilson
What firm cultivates the most young talent?
Lawyers Weekly has extrapolated data from its 30 Under 30 finalist talent pool to determine which firms are recruiting...
22 May 2017
By Emma Musgrave
NSW law schools producing young talent
More than half of this year’s Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 finalists studied at a law school in New South...
17 June 2016
By Priya Murthy
Annual celebration of female talent kicks off
Nominations have been opened for the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards, now in its fourth
12 October 2015
By Priya Murthy
The right mix of talent
The five finalists in the JLegal Energy & Resources Award at next week’s Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards come...
08 May 2014
By Justin Whealing
G+T mines global firm for talent
Gilbert + Tobin has taken the head of the Perth-based mining group at Herbert Smith
06 January 2014
By Priya Murthy
HSF dangles carrot to keep Oz talent
An Australia-specific provision in Herbert Smith Freehills’ new partner remuneration system is an attempt to hold on...
12 December 2013
By Leanne Mezrani