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Soft skills, hard takes, and the occasional donut brief—field notes for people who hire (and get hired) in law.
Make Your Job Easier: Mastering Client Care in the Legal Industry
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In It to Win It: Job Hunting After Law School
In It to Win It: Job Hunting After Law School
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Job Hunting in the Legal Industry
The Do’s and Don’ts of Job Hunting in the Legal Industry
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Legal Hiring 101: What’s The Difference Between A Contract Attorney vs. A Fractional Attorney?
Legal Hiring 101: What’s The Difference Between A Contract Attorney vs. A Fractional Attorney?
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How to set up your Hire an Esquire profile for success
How to set up your Hire an Esquire profile for success
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Love Your Work Again: Reconnecting with the Practice
Love Your Work Again: Reconnecting with the Practice
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Law & Culture: Decade Rewind
A look at how law has been laced into professional and pop culture throughout the current decade, from TV to Taylor Swift
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2025 Lawyer & Paraprofessional Holiday Gift Guide
The 2025 Lawyer and Paraprofessional Holiday Gift Guide
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Want a New Legal Role in Q1? Here's Your December Game Plan
Want a New Legal Role in Q1? Here's Your December Game Plan
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Side Hustle to Career Strategy: Stories from the Field
Side Hustle to Career Strategy: Stories from the Field
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The Post-Bar Blues: Managing the Post-Graduation Job Search
The Post-Bar Blues: Managing the Post-Graduation Job Search
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From Freelance to Full-Time: How to Transition Back into Permanent Legal Roles
From Freelance to Full-Time: How to Transition Back into Permanent Legal Roles
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Freedom to Choose: Exploring In-Demand Legal Roles in 2025
Freedom to Choose: Exploring In-Demand Legal Roles in 2025
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Building a Portfolio Career in Law: Balancing Multiple Roles
Building a Portfolio Career in Law: Balancing Multiple Roles
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Avoiding Burnout in Your Job Search
Avoiding Burnout in Your Job Search
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How to Become an "All-Star" Using Hire an Esquire
How to Become an All-Star Attorney on Hire an Esquire
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Taking the Stress Out of In-Person Networking
Taking the Stress Out of In-Person Networking
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Tax Time Preparation for Freelance and Contract Attorneys in 2025
Tax tips for contract and freelance attorneys for the 2025 tax season. Your guide to making this tax season a breeze whether you had engagements that were W2, 1099, or both!
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Habit Hacks for Legal Professionals
Habit Hacks for Legal Professionals
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The 2024 Lawyer & Paraprofessional Gift Guide
2024 Lawyer and Paraprofessional Gift Guide
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Setting Up Your Contract Attorney For Success
setting up your contract attorney for success
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Juggling Holiday Stress
juggling holiday stress
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Interviewing for a Contract Legal Position
Interviewing for a Contract Legal Position
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Our top five productivity tools for lawyers
Our top five productivity tools for lawyers
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Employment Classification Guidelines
Freelance Lawyers & Updated Employment Classification Guidelines
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Building Your Network and Meaningful Relationships in a Remote Environment
Meaningful Relationships in a Remote Evnironment
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The Importance of Being Social: Building and Developing Your Social Media Presence
the importance of being social
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The Benefits of Using Fractional Talent
Benefits of Using Fractional Talent
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Smooth Sailing: 4 Steps to Set Yourself Up for a Great Vacation
Smooth Sailing: 4 Steps to Set Yourself Up for a Great Vacation
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Document Review Best Practices for Law Firms, Legal Departments and ALSPs
Document Review Best Practices for Law Firms, Legal Departments and ALSPs
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Deal Maker: Negotiating Your Rate for a Contract Position
The top 7 tips for contract attorneys to negotiate rates with confidence
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And the Winner is… You!
Awards season isn't just for the stars. Become the Travis Kelce or America Ferrera of the legal industry with these 4 hot tips.
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Tax tips for contract and freelance attorneys for the 2024 tax season. Your guide to making this tax season a breeze whether you had engagements that were W2, 1099, or both!
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The 2023 Lawyer & Paraprofessional Gift Guide
We’re back again with our carefully curated and highly anticipated 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for lawyers and legal professionals! With special items for those who will work from home or plan to return to the office (RTO) in 2024
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Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Upgraded Hire an Esquire Platform Enhances Contract Hiring Process for Small and Mid-Sized Legal Departments and Law Firms
Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Upgraded Hire an Esquire Platform Enhances Contract Hiring Process for Small and Mid-Sized Legal Departments
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Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA) Acquires Legal Staffing Company Hire an Esquire
The acquisition of tech-enabled Hire an Esquire facilitates strategic expansion of MLA’s technological capabilities and offerings to clients and candidates
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The 2022 Lawyer and Paraprofessional Gift Guide
2022 Lawyer and Paraprofessional Gift Guide
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The Ethics of Engaging Contract Attorneys
The ABA’s interpretation of Model Rule 5.4 permits the use of contract attorneys, a reasonable markup on contract attorney hours, and the payment of related fees to staffing and placement agencies. Complying with all other ethics rules and analyzing your jurisdiction’s interpretation of Model Rule 5
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Remembering a Founder and Friend
In Loving Memory of Edwin Watkeys— artist, philosopher, founder, and friend of Hire an Esquire
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Our Lean Law Primer: Updated to reflect how Lean can help your practice survive and thrive in the next new normal
Our Lean Law Primer
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Hiring an Attorney? How to Assess Soft Skills for the Best Fit
At Hire an Esquire , while we can’t manufacture the perfect candidate for your law firm or legal department, we can give you better information so that you can make more informed decisions and take fewer leaps when hiring an attorney.
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Career Alternatives for Lawyers
The holidays are over, you’ve reflected on your life a bit, and now you’re sitting at your desk and you realize you just aren’t into this anymore. Attorneys can easily feel trapped at a firm, between law school loans and sweat equity invested in their careers, it’s tough to just walk away.
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The Skinny on Psychometrics
the skinny on psychometrics
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Our Top 4 Contract Attorney Fails: We air our dirty laundry to help keep yours clean
Our Top 4 Contract Attorney Fails
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The Hire an Esquire 2018 Lawyer Gift Guide
Lawyers can be hard to shop for—especially those who spend many of their waking hours working.
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The Ultimate Guide to Good Legal Writing
Hire An Esquire’s guide to resources, tips, and best practices for better legal writing.
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All About the Client: James Goodnow of Fennemore Craig, P.C.
Hire An Esquire sat down with James Goodnow to learn how he built a digital brand for his practice group and what he believes all lawyers should be doing to bring in more business.
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From the desk of the COO: The Future of Worker Classification
From the desk of the COO: The Future of Worker Classification
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Moneyball for Legal Hiring
How we assess lawyer “soft skills” to predict performance.
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From Proskauer to Pints
Hire An Esquire’s exclusive interview with Doug Bouton, COO of Halo Top Creamery.
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Women in the Law: Sparking a Flame for Future Minority Attorneys
At nine, riding my bike with neighborhood kids during the days when children roamed free before dinner, I heard those words and looked around to find the vile beasts this mom was warning her child against. It took a couple of heartbeats for me to realize she meant me.
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Women in the Law: Are Women Set Up to Fail?
Women make up 57% of college graduates, but only 51% percent of all law school applicants. For those who apply, women are less likely to be admitted than men—80% of men are admitted to law school, while only 76% of women are admitted.
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Fifty-six percent of law firms use contract attorneys to meet business demands. Chances are, your competition is using contract attorneys as a flexible resource. And the reason is simple, hiring a contract attorney is often a more efficient choice than making a permanent hire; it means less overhead
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Women in the Law: "In the Media"
In the workplace, successful men and women must be strong to lead and to make authoritative decisions. But the label “strong woman” describes something else. It’s a casual, one-size-fits-all term that describes any successful woman.
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Women in the Law: "Hey Sweetie"
For the next six weeks, we're partnering with Law School Transparency to bring you Women in the Law, a podcast mini-series, and related articles that examine the many professional and personal challenges that women continue to face as
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Hire an Esquire Moves Forward with World’s Largest Firm
We are thrilled to share with you that Nextlaw Labs has invested in Hire an Esquire. NextLaw Labs is the business accelerator of Dentons, the largest law firm in the world.
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How to Ask for a Raise: Attorney Edition
Take a moment to step back and analyze your current role and your job description. Do you strongly feel that you exceed expectations, succeed as an individual attorney and within a team, and are still being underpaid? Then it might be time for you to request a raise!
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Project Management: Is Your Law Firm Ready For Scrum?
Successful players like Google, Facebook, and Spotify have famously used Agile project management and its many offspring—Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, and others—to deliver to customers more quickly, be more responsive to change, empower their workers, and improve their bottom line.
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One Lawyer's Guide to a Healthy Diet at Your Desk
When I began practicing insurance defense law in Philadelphia after law school at Temple University, I had a few rude awakenings which I suspect most young lawyers experience when beginning their legal career.
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So You Want to Be Successful on Hire an Esquire
So You Want to Be Successful on Hire an Esquire
Read on I Had a Baby and Left BigLaw … But Not for the Reasons You’re Thinking
I was an associate at Nixon Peabody in San Francisco when I got pregnant with my first child. I went on maternity leave with the full intention of returning to work—and I did. I returned to work full-time and gave it my best effort. After a few months, I decided to try an 80% schedule.
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6 Tips to Stay Fit at Your Firm
Everyone knows that working long hours at a desk, neglecting regular exercise, and eating on-the-go are not the best strategies to stay fit and healthy. I’m sure you’ve been advised to work out three times a week and to get up from your desk once an hour to get a drink of water—unfortunately, these
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Work-Life Balance for Attorneys: Real or Myth?
By its very nature, the private practice of law, for the most part, does not lend itself well to a schedule that allows attorneys—particularly young attorneys—regular opportunities to balance their work obligations with rewarding family and personal lives.
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Can You Legally Drink in an Uber?
Just in time for the holidays, car services are raising yet another novel question of law: Legally, can you drink in an Uber? The answer is unclear in 40 jurisdictions due to open container exceptions that exist in many states.
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We chatted with Amy Apostol to highlight the experiences of lawyers balancing their legal practice and the demands of military family life.
Read on 13 Things You Didn't Know About Donuts and The Law!
As good as they are at filling that sweet-pastry craving in your stomach, here are facts, news, and fun links about donuts in the legal world that will fill your brain’s craving for useless stuff!
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