Law firm reinvents its retention strategy

The firm found success through investing in its workforce — and overhauling its summer associate program.

  • By Amanda Postma
  • | 12:00 p.m. December 9, 2021
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Courtesy. John Moore believes the turnover rate is lower than normal after the firm reinvented its summer associate program and invested in the workforce.
Courtesy. John Moore believes the turnover rate is lower than normal after the firm reinvented its summer associate program and invested in the workforce.
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A Sarasota-based law firm is changing up the way it recruits and retains lawyers and summer associates in order to stay ahead of turnover. 

“Eight years ago, we took a hard look at our summer program,” says John Moore, a partner and health law attorney at the firm, Williams Parker. “We thought this generation of law students were looking for something different.” 

 

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