They've recently joined the parade towards blurring the distinctions between Recruiters and Publishers. Any great chef creates some nasty-tasting experiments on the way to a new recipe. Evaluating the results during the experimentation process might lead you to think that the chef is incapable of making an edible stew. We think that the Korn-WSJ partnership merits celebration. Recruiting a lawyer is a somewhat more delicate chore than technical placement.
Legal resumes are nuanced documents and pedigree is a big deal within the inner circles.
As we've often observed, if you want to see meaningful technical innovation, look at the low end of the business. Legal Recruiting, like high-end Executive Placement, tends to be blinded by retainers and tradition. Here are the players in pure Legal Recruiting. As a class, they tend to be primitive, under-designed and tentative. Over the next eighteen months, the area will explode and grow in sophistication.