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Future-Proof Your Firm: Hiring, Managing & Keeping the Legal Team You Actually Want.

Program Description: At the heart of every great law firm is a strong legal support team and building that team takes more than posting a job and hoping for the best. In this practical, high-energy session, Nikki D. Green, Founder of Avé Staffing, dives deep into the full lifecycle of hiring, onboarding, and training legal assistants and support staff, while also addressing the bigger picture workforce challenges that every firm administrator is navigating right now: a multigenerational team, rising mental health concerns, looming Boomer retirements, and the pressure to adopt AI thoughtfully.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Hire the Right Legal Assistant: Learn which interview questions actually predict performance and which common ones are wasting your time and theirs.
• Onboard Intentionally: Walk away with a concrete 90-day onboarding framework that prevents silent resignation before it starts and sets your legal assistants up to stay.
• Train for the Long Haul: Understand what good looks like at every stage, from Week 1 through Year 2, and how to build a training culture that grows your team instead of burning them out.
• Navigate the Generational Divide: Get practical strategies for managing and giving feedback across four generations on the same team, including how to handle the ones who take it personally.
• Address Mental Health Openly: Understand why law firm culture creates a dangerous silence around mental health, what the data says, and three things any firm can do immediately.
• Plan Before They Leave: Learn why succession planning and Boomer knowledge transfer cannot wait and how to start now without overhauling everything.
• Adopt AI with Intention: Discover how forward-thinking firms are integrating AI tools into legal support workflows, what policies need to be in place before someone makes a costly mistake, and why AI literacy is now a retention and recruitment factor.

Attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of The Legal Assistant Hiring and Training Handbook, a take-home resource they can use immediately back at their firms.

About the Presenter: Nicole "Nikki" Dailey Green, Founder of Avé Staffing

Nikki Dailey Green is a legal recruiting strategist with 15+ years of experience placing attorneys, paralegals, and legal support professionals at law firms across the country. As the Founder of Avé Staffing, a boutique woman-owned legal staffing firm founded in 2016, Nikki has built her practice on one simple belief: the right hire changes everything.

Raleigh is where it all started, and after more than a decade serving the Triangle legal community, it will always be home. From those NC roots, Avé Staffing has grown into a nationwide practice built on relationships, not transactions.

With 500+ successful placements and a 96% retention rate, Nikki is known for her signature Right Fit approach, which goes beyond resumes to truly understand a firm's culture and people. A featured speaker for the North Carolina Bar Association, the National Association of Legal Assistants, and a proud ALA Business Partner for nearly a decade, Nikki has become a trusted voice on hiring strategy, generational workforce dynamics and the future of AI in legal staffing.

In a world moving faster than ever toward automation, she still believes the best hire starts with the human part.

CLM Credit: 1.0 hour in Human Resources Management for Recertification; 1.0 hour Organizational Development for Application

Thank you to our meeting sponsors: Gold Business Partner, Actionstep, and Diamond Business Partner, Ave Staffing

*Our goal is to organize inclusive events that are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, ensuring full participation. For accommodations or questions about accessibility, please reach out to [email protected].

**Registration is required to attend.