To make strategic career decisions and stay connected with colleagues and former classmates, lawyers can benefit from using networking and career development tools beyond LinkedIn. While the popular social platform is a great tool for cross-industry networking, an industry-specific platform built exclusively for attorneys can provide a more targeted network and career development tools built for the legal profession. Attorneys looking to keep up with peers, pursue lateral positions, and conduct in-depth research on prospective employers require a platform that’s designed specifically for them.
Learn why many attorneys and law students are going beyond social media to improve their networking, job placement, and career advancement efforts.
Curated Attorney Connections
Many of the contacts, messages, and posts we see on social media sites fail to help advance an attorney’s career or provide information that can move an attorney’s practice forward. Attorneys can benefit more from a space that’s tailored to their unique interests and experiences.
An attorney-only networking site ensures that those in the legal industry can cut through the noise to find and follow each other. It also means attorney profiles have the potential to be more thorough, with detailed information about practice focus, matters worked, employment history, experience, and accolades. Look for a function that lets users set alerts on specific colleagues, classmates, and peers to receive notifications on promotions, job changes, and other activities in your circle.
Predetermined connections and instant network updates can transform the way attorneys follow trends and reconfigure their career paths over time to meet personal goals. Platforms like the Firm Prospects Attorney Network can push personalization even further by permitting users to indicate specific employment and career development interests.
In-Depth Research Capabilities
A tool initially developed for social media purposes isn’t going to achieve the level of depth attorneys need to perform detailed research and analytics on potential employers.
Conducting manual research by browsing the web or relying on marketing materials from law firms alone won’t provide the complete picture. The best legal networking platform should contain features that allow users to manipulate rich employer data to easily review practice area information, track hiring and attrition trends, examine team diversity, identify top performers, and run helpful side-by-side comparisons.
A platform that takes this analytics-first approach is better equipped to help attorneys gather objective insights and draw their own conclusions regarding roles and employers to inform intelligent job moves and long-term career decisions.
A Purpose-Built Platform
Only a legal market intelligence platform created through firsthand legal and recruiting industry expertise can offer attorneys a career advancement tool they can trust. The capabilities of a purpose-built, AI-driven networking and research platform are simply unmatched.
The Firm Prospects Attorney Network is the first and only community made for attorneys, by attorneys with functionality that simplifies our ability to stay connected while providing greater depth and nuance for navigating modern legal careers.
Join the Attorney Network today to follow your peers and make the most of your connections.
