What yours truly is introducing is the idea that you should now compete for the best people your environment has to offer, the same way you compete for clients. And you know you cannot build your law firm on your own...
So what does your law firm have to offer:
1. Salaries and allowances: This is the big stick you can wield to whip people in line but here the way you combine them and when you make the payment are your strengths in bringing good people into the fold. The larger the amount, the better but with what you can offer, Be sincere and legit.
2. Exciting Work Opportunities: A law firm that is a great place to work has an edge in getting good people on to the ship. They will look forward to work, they will bring their ideas in and work to make them happen and they will not stay down when they get knocked out. Does your firm offer anything remotely interesting, that drives the juices of your people every once in a while? Of course it does, so use that.
3. Physical Location: Now believe it or not where you are does matter in individual cases because if the commute is impractical your search is limited to your immediate environs. This can be a strength or not depending on how you use it.
4. Feeling of Family: Everyone wants to be part of something meaningful and perhaps your law firm has that type of vibe going on? Then you have an edge that even money cannot trump. After a certain basic level more money will not bring out the genius in your people or bring in geniuses. This is where your sense of destiny and achievement comes to the fore.
Even if you feel you have the impregnable position with hiring people do not project that because it is a bad attitude to begin with and will attract wolves in sheep's clothing.
Finally, If you have a swift turnover rate for your people, it is a testament to your incompetence and affinity with mediocrity that in a scarce job market you are unable to attract and grow and retain good people.
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