Touchstone 101 – An Inside Look to Legal Resources and Outplacement
My name is Tracy Callahan, and welcome to my exciting journey into legal resources and career transition outplacement services. I chose to create a blog about attorney and legal outplacement because I have been supporting the legal industry for more than 20 years, and I’d like to share my experience.
How I Can Help
I have spent most of my adult life helping law firm leaders and individual attorneys as a:
- Legal marketer
- Legal recruiter
- Law firm consultant
- Legal career coach
- Entrepreneur coach, and
- Attorney outplacement resource
The first thing people want to know about attorney and legal outplacement is why they’ve never heard of it. I explain that while most law firms could benefit from offering career transition and outplacement services, very few do. Why? Because most law firm leaders haven’t realized that they can positively influence how their former colleagues impact the firm. So if attorney-specific career transition services aren’t on the radar of leadership, they’re on the radar of the rest of the firm and the legal profession in general. Also, when these services are offered, to protect the firm and the individual attorney, the existence of the relationship with the outplacement provider is kept confidential.
As a result, an attorney-specific career transition service isn’t “a thing.” I’m working hard to change that.
Because of my many years and many roles supporting the legal industry, I can help law firm leaders understand that offering a program dedicated to attorney outplacement and career transition to their exiting attorneys is the right thing to do for both emotional and business reasons.
What you can expect here
The content I will share will focus on the ways a law firm could benefit from offering an attorney outplacement and career transition program to their exiting senior attorneys, partners, of counsels, and associates. Using statistics, case studies, and real-life examples from my 20 years of experience, I will share information about the direct and tangential benefits to the law firm and terminated attorney and why putting sufficient resources into the attorney termination process is more than just a nice thing to do. It is an essential tool for achieving business goals.
Blogs headed to this space include:
- Firing My Partner: When a Business Decision is Too Personal
- The Many Ways Delaying an Attorney Termination is Costly
- Successful Law Firm Leaders Know Intentional Pruning Promotes Growth
- Ways Law Firm Leaders Lose When They Avoid Sensitive Attorney Terminations
- Playing the Long Game When Terminating is a Win-Win
- Implementing Tricky Termination Decisions and Having Peace of Mind Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
- Ways Your Alum Impact Your Firm Long After Termination
- Terminated Attorneys Suffer More Than Regular Folks (and Why it Matters)
- Data-Driven Terminations Don’t Need to be Heartless
- Benefits of Implementing an Alumni Relations Mindset for Sensitive Terminations
