3-D Hiring

There is nothing more exciting to a 3-D lawyer than an everchanging marketplace. The opportunity to help clients reach and stay at the top of their industries and have a career that taps all of your skills is career fulfillment at its most complete. GT’s recruiting program is shaped to attract and keep lawyers who have not one, but both of these career aspirations.

3-D Training

A changing marketplace demands a comfort with the unpredictable. It’s why we prepare lawyers for “gray” – in the legal, business and leadership challenges they will face.

Preparing lawyers for gray at GT is a multi-tiered process that starts with hiring lawyers with 3-D skills (legal, business and leadership) who also have the temperament and talents that make them highly effective at navigating change. From there it includes a combination of formal substantive training, mentoring, and the experience of being close to the action with clients. As lawyers shape their own career paths at GT these resources are at their fingertips day in and day out.

The Hoffman Professionalism Center (HPC) is the hub of the firm’s substantive training programs. Named for Larry Hoffman, one of the founding partners and the chairman since 1997, HPC is central to the professional development of GT’s lawyers, paralegals and business staff. The Center offers live, interactive and multimedia programs on both broad and niche-based substantive skills.

To further help lawyers develop their own routes to helping clients lead, the firm’s leadership conducts programs focused on the practical and changing aspects of being a lawyer, business person and leader – in an everchanging marketplace.

3-D Empowerment

With individual empowerment front and center in the firm’s culture, GT is hardly a one-size-fits-all firm. For example, at GT, it’s not a lawyer’s law school graduating year that determines the level of responsibility. It’s a lawyer’s contribution to helping clients lead. And the desire to make an impact. At GT, we’re right behind associates on every step of their journey – no matter what route they carve out to make a difference.

• National Associate Review and Achievement Season
  GT dedicates a period each year during which associates meet with shareholders to review their past year’s achievements and discuss the next year together. As always at GT, the focus is on individual empowerment. Just as GT shareholders do, each year associates tell the firm how they want to leverage their talents – and how GT can help them get there.
• Generation GT
  At GT we aren’t all products of the same era. But the Boomers, Gen X’ers, and Gen Y’ers in our ranks share a common thread – a very uncommon thread – that unites us. It’s the spirit of the 3-D lawyer. It’s what we call Generation GT – a state of mind, not a date of birth. Our Generation GT programs celebrate our common traits.