It's now easier to move a legal practice to AZ: The average high March temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, is a comfortable 77 degrees. Meanwhile, the Midwest is again blanketed in snow. When you next speak to old law school classmates or friends who are...
Read MoreAZ Supreme Court Requires Succession Plan With the start of the new year, the team at D. French Advisors would like to alert you to some changes that will impact the way you anticipate the future of your practice. In December, the Arizona Supreme Court passed several rule...
Read MoreMost people accept that advancing artificial intelligence and the spread of robotic automation will change, and in many cases replace blue-collar jobs, like factory work; but intellectually-intensive or white-collar work, surely, cannot be in jeopardy. That opinion is changing, fast, including within the legal profession, where the trends are even overcoming technological...
Read MoreFor perspective on the following, please navigate to the expandable map below. Much becomes lost to time. The earliest recorded footnotes in the practice of law in Phoenix are the election in 1881 and death in 1896 of the city’s first Town Marshall. Contemporaneously, Arizona’s first...
Read MoreIn the first quarter of 2015, our Arizona-based legal recruiting firm D. French Advisors has seen an increase in requests from our clients for attorneys in the practice areas highlighted below. Intellectual Property – With rapidly evolving technology, IP is vital to all content creators, from small...
Read MoreAs 2015 gets underway, we here at D. French Advisors thought it would be interesting to take a look at an important topic: compensation. If you’ve been practicing law for 20 years or more, you may remember starting salaries between $50-$70K. Most of today's first-year associates at larger firms would cringe at the thought of starting out at...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the Greater Phoenix Edition of Attorney at Law Magazine, Vol.6 No.11 http://www.attorneyatlawmagazine.com/phoenix/interview-with-david-french-of-d-french-advisors-llc/ Interview with David French of D. French Advisors, LLC We were able to sit down with David French, founder of D. French Advisors to discuss his company and the recruiting...
Read MoreDavid French trades in real estate career to help law firms find good fits By Mike Sunnucks David French didn’t want to stay on the same real estate career path followed by so many others in development- and home building-dominated Phoenix. “Everybody does real estate here,” French said. Phoenix...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Meredith Savage joins D. French Advisors, a Legal Executive Search & Recruitment Firm September 19, 2014 PHOENIX, AZ- D. French Advisors is pleased to announce that Meredith Savage has joined the company as Director of Recruiting. Ms. Savage has more than 16 years’ experience helping people...
Read MoreBy Chris L. Gilfillan He calls it “riding shotgun.” While in law school, David French worked for real-estate investment company Lyle Anderson monitoring the legal spend with firms like Fennemore Craig, P.C., and DLA Piper LLP. He’d communicate to the company what the lawyers were doing and...
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