Interviews and focus groups are essential tools of qualitative research. This guide shows students and early-career researchers how to prepare for and conduct interviews and focus groups. This book ...

Phone screening is an important part of hiring new employees. It is the first brief interview conducted with a job candidate. Employers use these phone calls to see who will move on to the next stage ...

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Talking with an employee who is leaving can provide valuable information—assuming you approach the interview in the right way. Turnover happens at all companies. While much of recruiting focuses on ...

Lawyers, as a general rule, are not good interviewers. This important skill is vastly overlooked in law school training or in-house training at a law firm. Law students spend hours grinding through ...

Industry Insights from Thomson Reuters Institute, a part of Thomson Reuters. By actively collecting client feedback, your law firm can establish a window to manage and improve client experience and ...

“The signatory authority of an examiner may incentivize rejecting claims rather than allowing. Specifically, junior examiners have a greater incentive to reject patent claims and avoid indicating any ...

In a recent Law.com Trendspotter column, we wrote that, while law firms live and die by the quality of their client service, a troubling number of them appear to be actively avoiding seeking feedback ...