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McDonough Holland & Allen PC offers new attorneys a tremendous opportunity for career advancement while working with highly skilled attorneys. The firm is a leader in sustaining a collegial, satisfying and well-balanced workplace.

Hiring Criteria

In making hiring decisions, McDonough takes into account the candidate's life experiences and academic performance, including:

• Law school transcript
• Writing sample
• References
• Prior employment
Extracurricular activities
• Experience outside the law
• Connections in Sacramento, Oakland
• Knowledge about our firm and practice areas

No one factor is favored over another. We look for outstanding, well-balanced individuals with a variety of qualities to bring to the firm.

Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy

Minority Recruitment

McDonough is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunities to women and minorities. In our recruiting efforts, we continue the firm's historic policy of pursuing qualified attorneys of varied backgrounds and experience, with particular emphasis in hiring qualified minority applicants.

Since 1990, McDonough has been a sponsor of the Sacramento County Bar Association's Diversity Hiring and Retention Program from which we hire one first-year student to participate in our summer associate program.

Associate Training

McDonough's Training & Development Program was established for all attorneys and staff to support one of the firm's strategic goals which is to attract, train, and retain excellent people.

The program has recently implemented the following core curriculums for attorneys:

Legal Skills

• Legal Writing
• Negotiations
• Boot Camp
  McDonough designed the Boot Camp program to provide new attorneys with some basic guiding principles on how to succeed and flourish—and to provide veteran McDonough attorneys with the training they wish they had had when they first arrived. The Boot Camp topics include:
  • Introduction to the Firm (firm history, core values, and what makes McDonough unique)
  • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me On Day One
  • Law Firm Economics
  • Billing Tips
  • Conflicts, Ethics, and Privilege

Personal and Business Skills

• Bucket Brigade
• Crucial Conversations
• Wellness

McDonough Culture

• Reintroduction to McDonough

Performance Reviews

McDonough conducts formal evaluations of all associates annually in the spring to consider associates for shareholder status and to determine salary level adjustments and bonuses. The Supervising Shareholder and a member of the Evaluation Review Committee meet with each associate to discuss the evaluation findings, including areas that need improvement and whether the associate is satisfactorily progressing toward shareholder status.

In addition to the annual review, the Supervising Shareholder and Practice Group Leader conduct a mid-year review with the associate in the fall to assess the associate's progress, supervision, goals, business plan and dynamics within the Practice Group.

Shareholder Track

Associates joining the firm directly from law school are ordinarily first considered for shareholder status 6-1/2 years after joining the firm. Lateral hires are considered for shareholder status on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account their years of practice before joining the firm, the benefit to the firm of those years of practice, and their years of practice with the firm. In March of each year, the firm announces the names of associates who will become shareholders effective on April 1st.

Sacramento | Oakland
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