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Top 10 career and recruitment stories in 2024
In this wrap-up, Lawyers Weekly takes a look back at the moves lawyers intended to make in 2024, the satisfaction levels among specific cohorts, and the thoughts of recruiters on potential career changes.
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10. Lawyers in their 30s are least satisfied of any cohort in private practice
9. 1 in 5 lawyers want to leave their firms this year – where will they go?
New findings from Lawyers Weekly and Agile Markets Intelligence reveal the number of private practice professionals planning to find a new employer in the coming 12 months and what they intend to do next in their careers.
8. Advice for new law students from a recent graduate
So, you got into law school. Congratulations! You’ve a hell of a ride ahead of you. There will be tears, very late nights, and lots and lots of coffee, writes Nicholas Waight.
7. Contracting roles in law on the rise, say recruiters
This year will be, as one recruiter puts it, “pivotal” for the legal profession, characterised by a “more fluid workforce”. Such changes to the landscape will require greater adaptability, strategy and proactivity in legal recruitment.
6. Nailing the clerkship interview (from those who have been there, done that)
There are plenty of things you can do to position yourself well in the interview and maximise your clerkship prospects, write Mei Gong and Jimmy Ngo.
5. Nearly 1 in 10 lawyers plan to leave the profession within the year
New academic research shows there is a concerning number of Australian lawyers planning to leave their current employers, with some even contemplating leaving the legal profession altogether.
4. Where lawyers aged 40+ want to work right now
Following the recent release of the 2023–24 Top 25 Attraction Firms ranking, Lawyers Weekly has broken down the data by age – here, we reveal which of the nation’s biggest practices are most appealing to lawyers in their mid-late careers, if they were to leave their current employers.
3. Can my employer stop me from moving to a competitor law firm?
Restraint of trade clauses need to be considered at the start and end of employment, writes Paul O’Halloran.
2. How this first-year law student landed a job in a law firm
Breaking into the legal profession can be a challenging endeavour, particularly for a law student. Here, Cassidy Pole shares her story of defining these odds and securing a position at a law firm while still in her first year of study.
1. Top 25 Attraction Firms revealed for 2023–24
Lawyers Weekly, in partnership with Agile Markets Intelligence, is thrilled to unveil the law firms that practitioners, if they were to leave their current employers, would be most attracted to.
