YOU WANT More new jobs begin in January than any other month. This means that your firm is likely to receive several resignations in January and throughout the first quarter of the new year. If you handle the resignations you receive this year effectively, you will have fewer resignations in the first quarter of 2000. A lawyer's voluntary resignation is a process. Lawyers become separated from the firm long before they leave it.
Subtle things influence lawyers as their tenure with the firm progresses.
Every loss of a lawyer costs a law firm revenue. This is true whether or not the lawyer was one the firm wanted to keep. There's an old marketing adage that when a customer is unhappy, they won't tell the business owner, but they will tell seventeen other people, who will tell seventeen others and so on. The same is true when a lawyer leaves a law firm. If the lawyer goes with ill will, he will damage the firm's business, often in more substantial ways than might at first be apparent.