The start of a new year is a great time to hire new legal staff. If you’re like many law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States, that’s good news, as litigation and other specialty areas are driving organizations into hiring mode in the beginning of 2019.
In a recent Robert Half Legal survey of more than 200 lawyers, 47% of respondents said their law office or company plans to grow its legal team in the first half of 2019. But 91% of hiring managers said it is challenging to find the skilled legal professionals they seek.
