Finding and hiring the right employees take more than just a couple of good interviews. The candidate might seem like a good fit, but how much do you know about them? Before making a hiring decision in any industry, conducting a pre-employment background on the candidate is essential. When you implement a background check as part of your hiring process, you are more likely to find the right talent, creating a safe working environment for customers, employees, and the community.

A Barada Associates, we’re the nation’s leader in employee screening checks for all industries, including the legal industry. We were founded in 1979 as one of the nation’s first employment screening businesses. Since then, we’ve formed into a company that hundreds of businesses across the United States trust for background screening, employment, and education verifications, and professional reference checks to help your business hire the right talent. Contact Barada Associates today for a free 15-minute consultation.

When hiring in the legal industry, you want employees you can trust to uphold the law and act with honesty and integrity. Barada Associates works with your legal firm or law office to develop a specific background screening process that’s right for you. Before we develop a plan, we’ll get to know your first, including information about your law firm, how many people it employs, and what you’re looking for in a candidate.

We know how busy the day-to-day responsibilities are for businesses, and attempting to background check every candidate on your own is a timely process. We do all the heavy lifting for you when you hire Barada Associates. What differentiates us from the competition are our honest, up-front prices, quick turnaround times, and quality of work.

Don’t trust just any company with your legal firm’s employee background screenings; trust the company that has been in business for more than 40 years – Barada Associates.

We work with each prospective law firm to develop an appropriate process for employee background checks. Some of the background services we provide include:

Criminal Background Checks

Whether hiring an attorney, paralegal, or executive assistant, criminal background checks are essential in the hiring process. Our screening services ensure you receive a complete criminal history report.

Employment and Academic Verification

During pre-employment background checks for a job applicant, we check that all attorneys have received a law degree, passed the bar exam, and are licensed to practice in their respective states. We also verify their entire educational background and past employment. Paralegals, meanwhile, typically need to be registered and licensed in the state they are working in.

Drug and Alcohol Testing

We partner with reputable national laboratories to process multiple types of drug and alcohol tests to ensure your candidate doesn’t have a substance abuse problem. This is a crucial step in the interview process that can be overlooked.

Professional Skills & Cognitive Assessments

Professional skills and cognitive assessments can determine whether legal candidates possess the right temperament for specific job responsibilities.

Reference Checking

Contacting a job applicant’s references is a great way to learn more about an applicant. References will often reveal more information about a candidate with a third-party background-checking company than they will with a hiring firm. In today’s competitive job market, it’s essential to verify that the references listed are real people and not fabricated.

Credit Report Check

Sometimes, a credit check is a good idea if the legal candidate is handling money. A credit check can help an employer learn whether the candidate is good at managing their money.

We recommend pre-employment screening in all industries; the legal industry and its certain rules are no different. Because attorneys and paralegals are bound to uphold the law, you must review job applicants’ criminal history and academic verifications. You wouldn’t want to hire a lawyer with severe criminal records to handle legal cases.