The demand for legal professionals is high in New Jersey. With a statewide unemployment rate hovering around 4 percent, and even lower in areas like Trenton and Newark, employers are scrambling to fill vacant positions with attorneys, paralegals and other specialists.
In fact, when a recent Robert Half Legal survey asked lawyers about the greatest practice management challenge facing their law firm today, the top response—cited by 31 percent of respondents—was the ability to recruit skilled legal professionals. Much further down on their list of concerns were managing caseloads (19 percent), offering alternative billing fees (14 percent), and staying current with new technology (13 percent).
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