Survival Guide to Retaining & Hiring Lawyers
Only time will tell if your employees reassess their values and join the Great Resignation. Whether you’re from a small, medium, or large firm, this is your guide to retaining and hiring lawyers in the modern world. Join our panel as they discuss time, flexibility and how to measure value. They’ll talk you through industry trends, challenges, the latest data, personal insights, and key tips to apply to your practice and ensure you have not only the best people, but an ideal workplace culture. WEB226N33
Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD units in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Hiring and retention: How to make a difference
What employees are looking for: The latest trends
Using social media to your advantage
Chair: Sam Burrett, Client Relationship Manager, Clayton Utz
What industry trends do you need to know?
- A timely update on industry trends and the latest data
- A look overseas: What have firms been doing?
- What’s changed in the past two years & how do you adapt?
What strategies do successful firms use to find & hire the right people?
- How do you find the right people?
- How do thriving firms get people to join them?
- What strategies can sole practitioners and small to medium sized firms use to attract top talent?
- What approaches should larger organisations use?
The tools to successfully retain employees
- Why do lawyers come, stay, or leave a firm?
- What strategies do flourishing firms use to retain top tier talent?
- How should firms value and make decisions on both employer & employee priorities?
- Time, Flexibility, Wellbeing & Renumeration
- Social Media: Opportunity, challenge, or threat?
Panellists:
Luke Geary, Partner, Mills Oakley
Erin Smith, Lawyer, Mills Oakley; Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Rising Star of the Year - Big Law; 2021
Ben Deverson, Founder & Director, Lawganised
Bill Fazio, Director, Fazio Advisory
Joydeep Hor, Managing Principal, People + Culture Strategies
Presenters
Sam Burrett
Sam Burrett is a Client Relationship Manager at Clayton Utz, a Distinguished Fellow at the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation and the Host of the Leading Lawyer Project podcast. In 2020, Sam held over 100 conversations with General Counsel and legal teams across Australia, gathering insight into what it's really like for the clients of law firms. Building on that experience, as well as geek-level passion for sales and marketing strategy, Sam helps lawyers win new work and retain the right clients.
Luke Geary
Luke regularly acts for ASX200 listed companies, impact financiers, non-profits and religious institutions nationally. Luke also acts for individuals in high profile, social justice issues cases.
Luke has particular expertise assisting institutions in responding to claims of child sexual abuse under a restorative justice framework and in accordance with best practice principles identified by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In other instances, Luke acts on behalf of survivors in certain cases against government agencies and other institutions. Additionally, Luke has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading lawyers representing victims of human trafficking and labour exploitation. Luke is a recognised expert in modern slavery law and assists large organisations in their compliance with this new regulatory regime.
Erin Smith
Erin has been a lawyer in the NFPs, Human Rights and Social Impact Team at Mills Oakley for the past two and a half years. As part of her practice, Erin regularly acts for leading disability service provides, not-for-profits, charities and individuals such as survivors of historical sexual abuse in matters of public interest and cases involving human rights issues. In addition to her work, Erin is also passionate about engaging with her community and her firm. She is a strong advocate for pro-bono work through Everyday Justice, a separate charitable law firm owned by Mills Oakley. She is also a founding member of the Mills Oakley Employee Innovation Working Group which is chaired by a member of the Board of Mills Oakley and was created to increase junior lawyer engagement at Mills Oakley. In November 2021, Erin was the recipient of the Women in Law Rising Star of the Year Award, which was the subject a feature article by Lawyers Weekly.
Ben Deverson
Founder & Director of Lawganised, Ben Deverson, has had a 24-year executive career of which over half has been managing and leading professional services firms. For four years (2016-2019), Ben was the principal of a boutique law firm in Brisbane. Whilst not being a qualified lawyer, Ben is a management specialist. He has gained an intimate knowledge of the challenges that law firms face each day. Ben's strengths include strategic planning, forecasting, cash flow management, process automation, performance metrics, leadership, and legal practice risk management. Ben has a passion for helping law firm principals maximise their resources so that they can have a new and positive outlook on their business lives and their lives.
Bill Fazio
Bill Fazio consults as Fazio Advisory after a long career as a corporate/commercial lawyer, an investment banker and many years as a Managing Partner. He has worked in single office, national and international firms, managing both growth and contraction. Bill is a passionate believer in improving the way lawyers and law firms work, both internally and externally, through changing old behaviours and embracing technology. He is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Joydeep Hor
Joydeep Hor is People + Culture Strategies Founder and Managing Principal. He is one of Australia's most well-known workplace relations lawyers due to his high media profile (both as a sought-after media commentator and prolific keynote speaker including appearing regularly on shows such as Sunrise and on Sky Business Channel) and his representation of several high profile clients throughout his career. While an expert in all areas of workplace relations, Joydeep is one of Australia's "go to" lawyers for complex and sensitive terminations of employment and also for addressing all aspects of workplace behaviour and culture (such as bullying and harassment).