Legal Innovators worked with Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington Law School and Howard University Law School to develop the first cohort of new lawyers. Legal Innovators currently works with Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington Law School and Howard University Law School. The first class has a ratio of 50% male to female students and 50% of their lawyers are from minorities. This talent is currently being taught to employers in corporate legal departments and top law firms. In addition, the company said Shearman & Sterling had signed a letter of intent indicating that it was willing to use Legal Innovators lawyers in its future work and that it was in discussions with other potential employers. WASHINGTON, 5. Dec. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Legal Innovators announces the launch of its outsourced legal services aimed at disrupting the market for young legal professionals. Unlike many other alternative legal service providers, Legal Innovators offers more opportunities for younger lawyers, including those from traditionally underrepresented groups. To speak to a member of the Weil Legal Innovators team, please contact us at: legalinnovators@weil.com The new staffing model would give law firms more flexibility by allowing them to spend less on recruiting and training staff and pay less for legal work, Parker said. “We believe there needs to be more innovation and disruption in the law, especially when it comes to recruiting, training, retaining and pricing young legal professionals,” said Bryan Parker, co-founder and CEO of Legal Innovators.
“Today`s businesses rely on an outdated and expensive on-campus recruitment and hiring model based on limited criteria – test scores and a year of law school performance. Training and mentoring have become retrospective missions. The firm will welcome a cohort of Legal Innovators lawyers who will be fully integrated into Linklaters` first class of 2022. Legal Innovators is an end-to-end talent management technology solution that transforms the way the legal industry approaches hiring, pricing and training young legal professionals through a two-year training program. Legal Innovators offers its clients a new approach to hiring that reduces the overall cost of onboarding junior partners, especially compared to traditional recruitment approaches. Through the Legal Innovators model, law firms and corporate legal departments are offered a diverse class of qualified candidates. These lawyers undergo extensive training before joining the firm. While lawyers work for law firms, Legal Innovators provides ongoing training and mentorship, as well as performance feedback. A typical engagement between Legal Innovators and its partner clients lasts two years, after which the law firm or the firm`s legal department can hire the lawyer permanently. Legal Innovators lawyers may also be hired during the two-year period.
Legal Innovators aims to find talented candidates through its proprietary algorithm and comprehensive vetting process who have been excluded from the spectrum of different identities in the traditional on-campus interview process, which can often exclude some of the most talented candidates, including, but not limited to, women. race and ethnicity, and first generation. Linklaters will benefit from the program`s highly skilled young legal talent, who will be thoroughly reviewed, mentored and trained by legal innovators, reducing the risk of the hiring process and providing a diverse talent pool. Legal innovators will train and pay lawyers for two years while working on legal issues for a firm or corporation. “Fairness in access to legal jobs is not only morally fair, but also a business necessity for many clients who employ these large law firms,” Greenblatt said. Legal Innovators mentors and develops a diverse and inclusive talent pool. Those in the pool are matched with clients for up to two years to gain hands-on experience. By working with legal innovators, Big Law and corporate legal departments can increase efficiency through high-quality content work at the employee level at a lower cost. During or after the end of the program, law firms and legal services may offer these lawyers full-time or partnership positions based on their performance and cultural fit. Legal Innovators says its new outsourced service, which will also be available to businesses and corporate legal departments, would also help address diversity and inclusion issues facing the legal industry.
The idea behind the new venture is that companies and companies can try promising legal talent without the high cost and dedication that comes with the traditional hiring process. Linklaters announces a partnership with Legal Innovators, an alternative legal services provider focused on innovative talent management solutions. “As the market evolves and clients become more expensive, you see that companies are already dealing with it through lawyers and other functions that didn`t exist before in law firms,” he noted. Edwin Harron, Executive Committee Member and Partner at Young Conaway, said, “We are thrilled to be the first Delaware law firm to partner with Legal Innovators. This partnership advances our firm`s DE&I strategic plan and Young Conaway`s unwavering promise to provide opportunities for highly skilled and diverse lawyers. As part of this commitment, we will provide the support and resources that diverse emerging talent need to enhance their legal skills and succeed at Young Conaway. We believe Legal Innovators` partnership with law firms like ours will have a significant impact on improving diversity outcomes in the legal profession and look forward to hosting our first Legal Innovators Fellow this month. Innovators have access to a Weil Mentor Lawyer (Partner, Attorney, and/or Partner) for the duration of the Weil Legal Innovators Program.