Let’s say you had a choice: You needed to hire a law firm and your choices were one where the staff was indifferent and unengaged, and the other was a law firm where the staff was happy, caring and involved. I know which one I would pick.

One of the great law firms I work with—Chester County-based MacElree Harvey—received the accolade recently of “Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania.” Based largely on employee feedback, the firm ranked first in Chester County of all businesses and sixth in the state in the competition judged by  the Team Pennsylvania Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Central Penn Business Journal. The awards program, created in 2000, is one of the first statewide programs of its kind in the country. Of all the law firms who competed, the firm took top honors.