It’s hard to believe that the first six months of 2014 (and then some) are already gone. A new legal hiring trends survey from legal staffing and consulting firm Robert Half Legal looks ahead to the next half of the year and finds that the future is bright for in-house legal professionals in the U.S. and Canada.
The survey includes data from both law firms and law departments, but Robert Half broke down the numbers into in-house data sets for CorpCounsel.com. According to the stats, 18 percent of in-house attorneys surveyed anticipate hiring legal department staff in the second half of this year, a full six-point increase from the numbers collected in its hiring survey taken six months ago. Only 4 percent of respondents anticipated a staff reduction.
