A long-time legal client of ours is seeking to add a mid-level litigation paralegal to their busy products liability team. This team is preparing for trial, and the new paralegal must be able to “hit the ground running”. 3-6 years of litigation experience is a busy medium-size office is necessary, including litigation software experience. A [...]
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State of the Job Market
Hiring in the legal job market is improving, slowly but surely. The rate of temporary hiring and direct-hires is not strong, but if we compare the overall activity to one year ago, things are definitely better. Several of our legal candidates report having 2 and 3 interviews in a week, which is much better than [...]
Staffing Updates
While the hiring news overall appears to be positive, our law firm clients have not yet experienced increased staffing levels. However, we can positively report that the number of our active candidates who are currently on temporary assignments around the City has increased. Several small to mid-sized firms have opened up temp-to-hire positions. Our current [...]
Happy New Year!
We are pleased to celebrate our one-year anniversary as Fusilier Business Services! While 2010 was better than 2009 as far as the job market was concerned, it was by no means a “bustling” year. However, business news was definitely better, and our law firms seem to be stable, profitable, and poised for a recovering corporate [...]
Townsend and Townsend to merge….And Orrick is hoping to merge..
Another old-name San Francisco firm has announced its merger with an eastern US firm. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton will become a 650-attorney firm on January 1, 2011. And back in October, SF Business Times reported that San Francisco stalwart, Orrick, is seeking a merger partner. We realize that it is often a smart business move [...]
State of the Market-Update
It’s been almost two months since our last posting. Where does the time go? Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it! The legal job market, and it seems the corporate market as well, has remained sluggish through the Fall. This has been extremely disappointing for both our candidates, as well as for [...]
Temps Provide Firms Flexibility in Recessions
Another SF Gate article has offered encouraging news, as well as confirmed our own expectations, that more and more companies view using temporary workers in an unpredictable market, a smart business decision http://www.sfgate.com/TEMPS PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY This article quotes a new federal study confirming the fact that temporary employees allow firms to expand and contract according [...]
Update on September 9
It’s been a busy week so far, as most short work weeks are. We have been interviewing legal secretarial candidates, and reviewing candidate resumes for 2 other open positions in law firm billing, and law firm collections. We also continue to search for qualified Conflicts Analysts who have experience with the Rules of Professional Responsibility- [...]
Labor Day: State of the Market News
It’s Labor Day, and all we can say is, our fingers are crossed for more labor! The job market is still a roller-coaster ride. On the down side, July and August were very sluggish for temporary employees and direct-hire candidates. One candidate we spoke to this week is in the middle of home foreclosure. An [...]
Summer is almost over! Hope for Fall hiring….
It’s hard to tell, considering how “cool” it’s been, but summertime is almost over. Maybe it’s the weather, but the job market has been chilly as well. Historically, July and August have typically been slow months for us, for any hiring in law firms. Yes, staff do go on vacation, but law firms learned long [...]