profile updated Mar 6, 2008, 10:20 PM
Micron Systems specializes in recruitment software for the legal profession. The company website describes it this way: "LawCruitWeb is a browser-based recruiting and applicant-tracking system for law firms and corporate legal departments. The software automates all attorney recruiting, including student and lateral hiring, as well as staff recruiting."
From the description you might think this is something for large, multi-office firms, and it is. But because it's offered in a software-as-a-service as well as being licensed for use on client servers, LawCruit is used by many mid-sized firms.
From a recruiter point of view, LawCruit does all the usual tracking and candidate management functions you would expect. Because law firms typically hire summer associates to whom offers may be made, LawCruit has features to track their progress and maintain communication with them.
The company got some bad press in the Law Technology News a few years ago when it was criticized for failing to update LawCruit. In a letter to the editor, co-CEO David Wit agreed with the charge, but added that in 2003, when Micron Systems was acquired by an investor group, more than $800,000 was spent improving the product. The investment appears to have paid off, since the company boasts 300 clients including 60 percent of the top 250 firms as listed by the National Law Journal.
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LawCruitWeb
Web based recruiting and applicant tracking system designed specifically for the legal professions. -
CE Manager
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