Training: Why it pays to grow your own

• Skill gaps: training existing employees.
• Increasing workforce diversity: paths to progression.
• New technology and AI: looking for the opportunities.

Whether you are looking to attract and retain talented employees, want to increase the diversity of your workforce or to introduce new technology to improve productivity, ensuring you have a strong workforce development plan is key to the success of all law firms.

It’s common for firms to focus on recruitment when looking to fill skills gaps and in some cases you may want to bring in new people, but there are considerable benefits to looking at your entire workforce, non-lawyers included, and considering how you can train existing employees in the skills you need.

Offering training and opening up new career paths for paralegals and administrative staff is a great way to motivate employees and retain those who might otherwise be looking to move elsewhere.

High staff turnover can be costly, with huge recruitment fees