Analytics – Insource / Delivering Effective People Outcomes Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:32:33 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-Insource_crop-32x32.png Analytics – Insource / 32 32 Australian law firms hiring as many lawyers as they are losing  /australian-law-firms-hiring-as-many-lawyers-as-they-are-losing/ /australian-law-firms-hiring-as-many-lawyers-as-they-are-losing/#respond Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:06:39 +0000 /?p=3197 Quarter 3 sees similar trends as quarter 2 for top Australian law firms recruitment in 2024  Quarter 3 of 2024 saw the top Australian law firms hiring as many lawyers as they were losing with a 1:1 ratio.  This is an increase from quarter 2 which saw 0.8 lawyers hired for every 1 lawyer departing.    […]

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]]> /australian-law-firms-hiring-as-many-lawyers-as-they-are-losing/feed/ 0 New Zealand law firms continue to lose more lawyers  /new-zealand-law-firms-continue-to-lose-more-lawyers/ /new-zealand-law-firms-continue-to-lose-more-lawyers/#respond Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:40:11 +0000 /?p=3173 Departures continue to outweigh hires for top New Zealand law firms  Quarter 3 of 2024 saw the top New Zealand law firms continue to lose more lawyers than they’re hiring with every 1 hire seeing 2 lawyers depart.  This is another increase in departures from quarter 2 (where every 1 hire saw 1.8 lawyers depart) […]

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]]> /new-zealand-law-firms-continue-to-lose-more-lawyers/feed/ 0 Key learnings from top NZ firms hires and departures in quarter 2 /key-learnings-from-top-nz-firms-hires-and-departures-in-quarter-2/ /key-learnings-from-top-nz-firms-hires-and-departures-in-quarter-2/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:50:53 +0000 /?p=2989 Quarter 2 of 2024 saw the top New Zealand law firms[1] continue to lose more lawyers than they’re hiring with every 1 hire seeing 1.8 lawyers departing – an increase from quarter 1 where every 1 hire saw 1.3 lawyers departing. Hires The two main sources of talent for the top 7 firms during quarter […]

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]]> /key-learnings-from-top-nz-firms-hires-and-departures-in-quarter-2/feed/ 0 Movement within the domestic not international market for top Australian lawyers /movement-within-the-domestic-not-international-market-for-top-australian-lawyers/ /movement-within-the-domestic-not-international-market-for-top-australian-lawyers/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:41:18 +0000 /?p=2984 Quarter 2 of 2024 saw the top Australian law firms[1] losing slightly more lawyers than they’re hiring with every 1 lawyer leaving seeing only 0.82 lawyers hired. This is a significant change when compared to quarter 1, which saw the top law firms hire twice as many lawyers as they lost. Consequently, the top firms […]

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]]> /movement-within-the-domestic-not-international-market-for-top-australian-lawyers/feed/ 0 Top New Zealand law firms are being more considered in their hiring practices /new-zealand-law-firms-losing-lawyers/ /new-zealand-law-firms-losing-lawyers/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 03:41:00 +0000 /?p=2615 The key recruitment trend for quarter 1 of 2024 is that the top 7 New Zealand law firms[1] are losing more lawyers than they are hiring – 1.3 lawyers left for every 1 hired.  The NZ trend is in direct contrast to Australia’s top firms quarter trend that saw those firms hire twice as many […]

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]]> /new-zealand-law-firms-losing-lawyers/feed/ 0 Top Australian law firms hiring more lawyers than they’re losing /australian-law-firms-hiring-more-lawyers/ /australian-law-firms-hiring-more-lawyers/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 03:28:10 +0000 /?p=2611 Quarter 1 of 2024 saw the top six Australian law firms[1] hiring twice as many lawyers as they’re losing.  The main sources of talent were other top firms and in-house, with a sprinkling of overseas returnees but not as many as previous quarters.  There is also a significant drop in the market movement as a […]

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]]> /australian-law-firms-hiring-more-lawyers/feed/ 0 Quarter 2 sees more considered hiring by top law firms but with increased departures /more-considered-hiring-by-top-law-firms/ /more-considered-hiring-by-top-law-firms/#respond Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:12:44 +0000 https://insource.nz/?p=1685 Insource has just completed analysis of the quarter 2 (Q2) hires and leavers from the Top 6 Australian firms and the Top 7 New Zealand (NZ) firms.  It shows a trend of more considered hiring by top law firms. In analysing just the top firms in both markets is a good indicator of what the […]

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]]> /more-considered-hiring-by-top-law-firms/feed/ 0 Are top tier firms hiring top tier talent? /are-top-tier-firms-hiring-top-tier-talent/ /are-top-tier-firms-hiring-top-tier-talent/#respond Fri, 12 May 2023 01:28:48 +0000 https://insource.nz/?p=1572 The obvious trend in Quarter 1 is that the Top Tier firms in Australia and New Zealand (NZ) are focused on hiring. As always they are focused on hiring top tier talent. However, economic pressures or not, these firms are still actively taking on new legal talent.   What’s surprising is the proportion coming from in-house […]

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]]> /are-top-tier-firms-hiring-top-tier-talent/feed/ 0 Brain drain is real: NZ lawyers head offshore, time to prospectively build your talent pipeline /nz-lawyers-head-offshore/ /nz-lawyers-head-offshore/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:48:37 +0000 https://insource.nz/?p=1393 More lawyers left Top 7 NZ law firms than entered during Q3 of 2022 The third quarter of 2022 (July to September) saw a collective net loss of lawyers from New Zealand’s Top Seven firms [1] – a big jump from smaller net losses in the first two quarters.  The total number of hires was […]

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]]> /nz-lawyers-head-offshore/feed/ 0 Make strategic hiring decisions by pipelining the right talent and don’t rely on overseas returners /make-strategic-hiring-decisions-by-pipelining-the-right-talent-and-dont-rely-on-overseas-returners/ /make-strategic-hiring-decisions-by-pipelining-the-right-talent-and-dont-rely-on-overseas-returners/#respond Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:02:33 +0000 https://insource.nz/?p=1378 The number of hires and leavers in the third quarter of 2022 for Australia’s Top Six firms’ are in. It’s clear that recession or not, firms must pipeline future talent.  As discussed recently in Lawyers Weekly “the market has record high levels of demand for staff and record low levels of candidates.” [1] Finding staff, […]

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