Innovation is streamlining dysfunctional markets as diverse as taxi services, sports, restaurant reservations, and dating. Why should legal personnel, one of the most lucrative broken markets, be any different? Julia Shapiro (along with fellow Fastcase 50 honoree Jules Miller) co-founded Hire an Esquire, a new generation legal recruiting and staffing agency that connects lawyers to temporary or permanent legal work, outside the standard BigLaw or solo practitioner job profiles. In a very fluid job market, Hire an Esquire also helps law firms and in-house legal departments better staff for temporary needs without adding overhead for permanent staff, empowering the on-demand economy for legal services, and allowing creative lawyers a different way to find work-life balance.
