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Frequently Asked Questions – Employees  ANSWERS – Employees Q. Can I be employed as a contract attorney with McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions? A. If you are an Illinois licensed attorney in good standing with the Illinois State Bar, and you have strong professional references, we would be interested in reviewing your credentials and experience for potential employment as a contract attorney with McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions. The vast majority of opportunities with our company will be for attorneys with some prior legal experience, but occasionally we will have projects for more junior attorneys. back to top Q. Does McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions place other types of legal professionals in addition to contract attorneys? A. McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions places contract, permanent and temporary to permanent paralegals, patent agents and other legal support professionals, including legal secretaries and legal administrative assistants. back to top Q. Why should I select McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions over other legal staffing agencies? A. At McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions, we are dedicated to providing our employees with the most rewarding and engaging contract assignments currently available. We also are committed to further educating the legal community at large about the efficacy of using contract attorneys for a much wider range of projects and developing those opportunities for our contract employees. McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions was founded by the same professionals who formed McCormack Schreiber Legal Search (www.thelawrecruiters.com), a preeminent permanent attorney search firm in Chicago. Our vision in creating McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions was to create a temporary legal staffing business which treats attorneys and other legal professionals with the same high degree of respect, professionalism and ultimate concern for long term career goals that we have provided for nearly a decade to our attorney candidates in our permanent search firm. As a practical matter, McCormack Schreiber Legal Search and McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions are affiliated companies that work hand in hand. Our contract attorney employees will be provided access to the same opportunities for permanent legal employment that are available to candidates of McCormack Schreiber Legal Search. In addition, the professionals of McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions received the same rigorous training that McCormack Schreiber Legal Search provides to its recruiters in the permanent business, and these professionals are highly qualified to assist you in every aspect of your career. As employees of McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions, you will be eligible for all applicable benefits, including insurance, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, transit benefits, and subsidized continuing legal education. back to top Q. How do I begin the process of becoming a contract employee with McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions? A. To be considered as a candidate eligible for employment with McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions, you should email your resume to info@mslegalsolutions.com. We will review your resume and respond promptly. back to top Q. As a candidate or employee of McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions, am I responsible for any fees? A. No. Following our screening process, we will contact you to discuss contract projects that arise for which you may be qualified and interested. We will never submit your resume for a contract position without your prior authorization. Once we have an appropriate position for which you have been submitted and selected by a client, you will be hired as an at-will employee of McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions. As our W-2 employee, you will be eligible for applicable benefits and will be paid weekly for completed hourly assignments. back to top Q. What types of contract assignments will be available to attorneys through McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions? A. Contract attorneys today are often used to staff large scale legal matters, including massive document review and corporate due diligence projects; however, as mentioned earlier, we believe that attorneys available on a contract basis have been grossly overlooked for other types of matters, and it is our goal to increase awareness of the tremendous capabilities of this new generation of contract attorney. We have staffed contract attorneys on more substantive, high-level legal assignments, including legal research and writing, contract and lease drafting and review, corporate governance, and securities and other regulatory compliance. back to top Q. What happens if I am offered a permanent position with a McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions client while I am working as a contract employee of McCormack Schreiber? A. Although it is always a disappointment to lose a good contract employee, at McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions, it is our goal for you to “disappoint” us in this way. We will encourage, support and facilitate the process of placing you as a permanent employee with any of our clients, should that be the shared goal of the candidate and the client. back to top Q. What benefits does McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions provide for their contract employees? A. McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions offers an attractive and competitive benefits program to all of our employees. As an employee, you will be eligible for all applicable benefits, including flexible spending accounts (“FSA”), commuter benefits, a 401(k), paid holidays, a vacation allowance, and subsidized continuing legal education. The FSA allows an employee to pay for health care and dependent care expenses using pre-tax funds deducted from their pay. The commuter benefits that we provide allow an employee to pay for parking and/or transit expenses using pre-tax and /or post-tax funds deducted from pay. With our 401(k) plan, employees may save for retirement using pre-tax contributions, which McCormack Schreiber will match up to the first 4% of eligible pay. Our paid holiday policy applies to all employees who are actively staffing an assignment when one of six federal holidays occurs. Our employees will receive eight hours of holiday pay for that day. These holidays include: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Our vacation allowance provides our employees with one week of paid vacation (consisting of five 8 hour days) once an employee has accrued 1200 hours in a calendar year and is currently staffed on an assignment for us. We also provide MCLE assistance to our contract attorneys. Once an attorney has worked 80 hours, we will offer him/her the opportunity to complete one 4 hour Ethics IICLE course free of charge. back to top |
We welcome you to send us your resume, in confidence, to info@mslegalsolutions.com, or by facsimile to 312.284.6301. All inquiries to McCormack Schreiber Legal Solutions Inc. will be kept striclty confidential. We do not submit resumes to prospective employers without a candidate's express permission. Please note that McCormack Schreiber Legal Search Inc. has assisted law firms and companies for the past decade in the permanent placement of attorneys of all levels and in all areas of practice. Please visit our website at www.thelawrecruiters.com to learn more about McCormack Schreiber Legal Search and our current opportunities. |
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