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The future of law

De-Risk Your Legal Hiring Process. 

Introducing the future of recruiting, developing, pricing and diversifying junior legal talent.

What We Do

  • Identify graduating law students that were missed in the traditional law firm hiring process, including students from diverse backgrounds, who we believe can compete at the highest levels
  • Train, coach and place these recent law school graduates on a structured trial basis with high quality law firms and corporate legal departments to do traditional junior associate work with the objective of permanent placement after the trial period
  • All while structured on a cost rationalized basis
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We Make Hiring More Effective

90%

Of Attorneys Converted to Permanent Hires after Period of Placement

Challenges

We seek to address the following challenges with the current legal recruitment and attorney development models:

The Law School Recruiting Process is Missing Talent​

Our Solution:

  • Assessing law school performance holistically, over three years of performance
  • Rigorously vetting candidates against the highest standards
  • Training, coaching, and mentoring the lawyers we hire to maximize their prospects for success
  • Placing them with high quality law firms and corporate legal departments on a structured trial basis
  • With the objective of launching them into permanent jobs at the firms with which they are placed
How We Work

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Requires Systemic Change

Law firms and corporate legal departments have struggled to recruit and retain lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds.

Our Solution:

  • Assessing talent on a holistic basis, widening the pool of high-quality diverse talent to which law firms and corporate legal departments are exposed
  • Focusing on practical training, coaching and mentoring to prepare our lawyers for success as junior attorneys
  • Working with the law firms and corporate legal departments during the placement period to assess performance and intervene where necessary to maximize our attorneys’ prospects for ultimate success
Improving DE&I

Rationalizing Junior Attorney Costs

The price point of junior legal talent is, in many cases, unsustainably high and difficult for law firms to recoup from already high billing rates.

Our Solution:

  • Pricing our placements to lower the overall costs to law firms of junior legal talent, so that savings can be passed on to law firm clients through lower billing rates
  • Eliminating the costs of misbegotten junior associate hires
  • Forestalling the decision to permanently hire a junior attorney until a track record of success has been established
 
Pricing & Profitability

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What People Are Saying

"Legal Innovators is a game-changer."
Richard ShorePartner, Gilbert LLP
Richard Shore
“Innovation is not something we reserve for our client service. We’re really trying to innovate in the way we view ourselves and how we attract and retain talent.”
Siobhan HandleyChief Talent Officer, Orrick: Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Siobhan Handley
“Our partnership with Legal Innovators allows us to engage with talented candidates in a novel way, while giving students the flexibility to pursue a path that’s the best fit for them.”
Abid QureshiGlobal Recruiting Committee Chair, Latham & Watkins LLP
Abid Qureshi
“Not everything you try is going to be successful, but that doesn’t mean that you stop what you are doing to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion. You continue with those things that work and you build on them.”
Paulette BrownFormer ABA President; Former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Locke Lord LLP; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Paulette Brown
“Legal Innovators offers an innovative solution to address the growing challenges in the legal industry of unsustainable costs associated with junior legal talent, training and integrating that talent, and finally, ensuring that the talent reflects diversity.”
Michael BaileyGeneral Counsel, Bechtel Group, Inc.
Michael Bailey
“We’ve never really thought there weren’t people out there who could do the work at our firm. The problem was how we could connect with them, because the normal channels all law firms use, it’s not fulfilling the need.”
Richard ShorePartner, Gilbert LLP
Richard Shore
“We’ve always prided ourselves on providing high-caliber legal representation for our clients. Our drive for excellence leads us to seek out better ways to work with our clients and this relationship is an example of this type of collaboration. We believe this partnership represents a creative approach to bringing in a diverse and talented pipeline of trained legal talent adding them to our existing team to serve our clients.”
Ellen McLaughlinPartner, Seyfarth Shaw
Ellen McLaughlin
“There’s societal reasons why you’ve got a lack of underrepresented folks at the top 25 law schools and a much larger percentage of historically underrepresented folks outside of the top 25. [Legal Innovators has] been really thoughtful about where there are law schools with diverse student bodies.”
Siobhan HandleyChief Talent Officer, Orrick; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Siobhan Handley
“In order to drive progress in increasing diversity in our profession, we must be open to fresh and innovative approaches. We look forward to creating new pathways for junior legal talent to experience in house legal culture and learn about the legal and regulatory matters unique to the aerospace and defense industry.”
Raja MaharajhGeneral Counsel, Raytheon Technologies
Raja Maharajh
“While we’re experimenting with a number of approaches, we’re especially impressed by Legal Innovators’ methodology and excited, not only to welcome the two Orrick Legal Innovators’ Fellows, but also to learn from their creative thinking and curriculum to ensure we improve the way we support diverse talent.”
Siobhan HandleyChief Talent Officer, Orrick; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Siobhan Handley
“Increasing opportunity and broadening diversity in Big Law is an important goal that will only happen by widening the pipeline of legal talent.”
Abid QureshiGlobal Recruiting Committee Chair, Latham & Watkins LLP
Abid Qureshi
“The collaboration between Linklaters and Legal Innovators will elevate not only our ability to offer our clients top junior talent but it also supports the firm’s goals to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion. We are proud to welcome our Legal Innovators cohort as part of Linklaters’ class of 2022.”
Tom McGrathHead of U.S. Global Practice, Linklaters
Tom McGrath
“Legal Innovators’ pursuit of bold and creative solutions, its determination to overcome problems others view as intractable, and its optimism that the status quo does not dictate the future, align perfectly with the values and philosophy that drive Gilbert LLP.”
Richard ShorePartner, Gilbert LLP
Richard Shore
“As a legal professional who has dedicated much of my career to fostering diversity and inclusion, I believe in Legal Innovators’ model.”
Paulette BrownFormer ABA President; Former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Locke Lord LLP; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Paulette Brown
“I would rather hire law firms who hire Legal Innovators. Their model creates a win/win solution for clients and firms alike by offering quality legal help at a lower rate, but also helping to build the careers of young legal professionals with a focus on providing opportunity for diverse talent. This is exactly the direction we need to take to be successful in the law.”
Michael BaileyGeneral Counsel, Bechtel Group, Inc.
Michael Bailey
“I have joined the advisory board because their mentorship model creates unparalleled value for law firms and their clients. Through Legal Innovators, it was learned through personal experience that firms can onboard new attorneys while mitigating risk and maximizing growth, resulting in legal teams that are better prepared to address their clients’ needs.”
Paulette BrownFormer ABA President; Former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Locke Lord LLP; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Paulette Brown
“Too often, exceptional young attorneys go unnoticed by big law firms because they haven’t gone to schools from which those firms traditionally recruit. Legal Innovators has created an alternative pipeline that connects law firms with some of the most promising and diverse legal talents.”
Joel SternFormer CEO, NAMWOLF; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
Joel Stern
“Legal Innovators has developed an exciting new solution to the diversity challenges facing many law firms. With time, we hope this model contributes to a strengthened legal field informed by a wide variety of perspectives.”
William HendersonStephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession, Indiana University; Legal Innovators Advisory Board Member
William Henderson
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An innovative end-to-end legal talent management solution for law firms and corporate legal departments, changing the way the law approaches hiring, pricing, inclusion, and diversity of junior legal talent.

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