What Are The Typical Qualification Criteria Imposed By The Hiring Organization?
The following yardsticks govern almost all legal searches by headhunters: Associates * Graduation from a top law school (universally recognized as such), usually a top-10 school; * Law review (preferably via grades/class rank as opposed to a writing competition), or some other exceptional law school honor, such as Order of the Coif; and * Class rank in the top 20-25 percent of your law school class (with some occasional variances, e.g., a lower class rank if you went to a top-10 law school; higher class rank the lower your law school’s ranking); * At least one year of experience, preferably two years; * No more than five years of experience; and * Experience with a prestigious law firm (again, universally recognized as such). Partners * Significant, provable portable business. Law firms who took assertions of portable business on faith were often burned pretty badly, and finally learned their lesson. Now their skepticism about grandiose claims prompts them to seek detailed verification
