Hiring a Paralegal for Law Firm Expansion Requires Careful Interview Process Considerations Always

I sat in my office at the top of the building. I own the law firm; it has done well over the last few months and is beginning to look at expansion into three other cities. In the past I had managed most of the case work myself however now I'm finding it difficult to keep on top of my current legal dealings and the paperwork. I finally decided that I'm going to have to hire another paralegal. The law firm has several already who deal with everything but with the expansion into other cities I'm going to need one to deal with all the information that will be going specifically through my office.

I sent downstairs and arranged for the job advert to go out, both internally and externally to see what potential there is that can fill the post. Within a few days my office had received nearly fifty applications. Five of those are from internal, already existing staff so they went to the top of the pile then I picked five others that seem the most promising. Just before the day of the interviews I'm in the bar with a friend who asked me a favor. One of his poker buddies had a wife who had been at a small law firm for a while and unfortunately her job was gone so she was looking for work. He had suggested that he would put in a good work as he knew my law firm was expanding.

I normally wouldn't have bothered and simply apologized but by the sounds of it this woman had quite a bit of experience and I had been fucked out of a job before so I agreed, checked my calendar and decided I can fit one more appointment in at

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