How and Why Firms Can and Should Focus on Retaining Associates

Legal Talk Network - Law News and Legal Topics · Sep 23, 2025 · 37m

Let’s talk about associate retention, keeping those young lawyers you’re recruited and mentored at your firm. It shouldn’t be a given that every associate will take what you’ve taught them to another firm in two or three years. Guest Ben Dachepalli is a veteran lawyer and a partner in the Tampa office of firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP specializing in construction law.

As a senior member of his firm, Dachepalli says retaining young associates is more than a transactional activity, it’s building the firm and developing the next generation of leaders. As he says, when he’s interviewing…