2025 Hiring Guide: Legal

Your resource for navigating the complexities of talent acquisition and management, ensuring you attract and retain the best talent to drive your organization forward in 2025.   

Our 2025 Hiring Guide for Legal provides hiring managers with valuable, data-driven insights into current market trends and salary benchmarks.  

Inside, you’ll find practical information to implement into your hiring practices—tips on hiring for the future as well as actionable intel for hiring specific positions, retaining top talent, and evolving alongside newly emerging skills and roles. 

This Guide is Designed to Help You:  

  • Identify key trends shaping the recruitment landscape, offering a clear view of what to expect in the near future.  
  • Gain a better understanding of salary data in order to create attractive and competitive compensation packages for recruits.  
  • Familiarize yourself with emerging roles and skills, so you may align your hiring strategy with market demands and stay ahead of the curve.  

Key Insights Include:  

Legal Industry's Vulnerability to Automation: The legal industry is highly susceptible to automation, as researchers identify that 44% of legal work can be automated. 

AI Applications in Legal Work: 34% of employers are utilizing AI primarily to automate complex and laborious tasks, in order to reduce the risk of errors. 

Newly Emerging Demands for Legal Experts: As AI becomes more ubiquitous, there is a growing demand for legal experts who can navigate tech issues such as data privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. 

 

Our 2025 Legal Hiring Guide is here.

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