Is Your Law Firm Hiring Innovative Lawyers

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Is Your Law Firm Hiring Innovative Lawyers? I coached Shawn Tuma in 2011. Back then I thought Shawn was the most innovative lawyer I had coached. Shawn recently joined Spencer Fane where he is co-chair of the firm’s data privacy group. I spoke with him recently and discovered that over the last several months he had done many interviews and over next month he had several additional TV and radio interviews scheduled. Here is a link to one of his interviews. How did Shawn get these opportunities? Put simply, he has built his practice using the social media tools available to all of you. I checked the morning I wrote this and he had 9998 followers on Twitter, just two short of 10,000. I’m betting he has over 10,000 as you are reading this. If I was hiring lawyers for my law firm, I would prefer to hire lawyers who are on the cutting edge of reaching clients and potential clients.  But, how many of those lawyers are there? Lawyers and law firms are so slow to change. Some time ago I was doing research on change and I found these statistics: Five  kinds of attitudes about change: You might think these statistics were collected in 2018. In fact, these statistics came from the clerk of Abbington Presbytery, outside of Philadelphia, over 100 years ago. There have been more changes in the way you practice law and do client development in the last 18 years than in the 29 years I practiced law before that. Think about these changes that just cover connecting and staying in touch:   Which category of attitude about change describes the lawyers your firm is hiring?     I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.