legal sanity

Last week, over at the motto blog, contributor Curt Rosengren wrote about a new, albeit small, study addressing what people are looking for in their next job. The survey found that the respondents didn’t consider a “move up the career ladder” a top priority. Instead, they put a premium on finding work that “challenges and stimulates them," satisfies their personal values and fits their lifestyle.

The survey’s findings aren’t surprising. They’re likely a sampling of a larger trend that’s emerging with the rise of the dual-centric workforce. As I’ve discussed here before, more and more lawyers are hungry for work that inspires, energizes and fulfills them. To sate that hunger, they’re willing to leave the security of law firm life and ride the job circuit to find a place and position that’s the right fit for them.

There are some law firms and businesses that have put themselves on the leading edge of legal service innovation by recognizing the trend depicted in the survey’s results.

One of these innovators is Axiom Legal, a law firm that’s built a thriving business and earned a stellar reputation by hiring top-notch big firm alumni and matching them with corporate clients on an as-needed basis. I had the pleasure of meeting with Axiom CEO Mark Harris a few weeks ago and came away very impressed with his business model and clear vision of what it means to be a happy, healthy and satisfied lawyer.