Ask Me Anything: Hiring (and Keeping) Future-Proof Lawyers

Everyone wants to hire the lawyer with "AI experience." After ten years placing lawyers in-house, we've seen this before - moments where demand for a skillset outstrips supply. GDPR. ESG. Now AI, except sharper: that person barely exists yet, and the few who do are fielding three offers by Friday.

So the real question isn't how to find the unicorn. It's how to build a team that's ready for what's coming, how to make that team one the best lawyers actually want to join - and how to keep the people you develop once every other GC wants them too.

Join Scott Brown, founder of Heriot Brown and host of Lessons I Learned in Law, for a live Ask Me Anything on building, attracting and keeping a future-proof legal team. Heriot Brown sits on the other side of this market: ours is the firm your best lawyers call when they start looking, and this session draws on the collective insight of consultants inside those conversations every day. Expect straight answers on what to actually screen for, why the strongest candidates never see your vacancy, why good lawyers really leave - and what the teams that keep their people do differently.

Submit your hardest hiring or retention question when you register - questions go on screen anonymised, answered live the way we would on a client or candidate call.

45 minutes. No script. Q&A.

Some of what comes up draws on the Executive Counsel Accelerator - our CPD-certified programme for the senior lawyers on your team you're backing for leadership. When a promotion or pay rise isn't on the table, a nomination is how you show them they're seen. Next cohorts: 15 September & 5 November. Learn more about the ECA here: https://www.cpduk.co.uk/courses/heriot-brown-executive-counsel-accelerator-eca-course