Specializing in Retained Legal Searches.
The firm specializes
in retained, executive level legal search for corporations and law firms; 40 percent of its business comes from Company searches for General Counsel and other in-house counsel; 40 percent
comes from law firm searches for
partners and associates; 10 percent comes from handling acquisitions and transfers of practice groups and mergers of law firms; 5 percent comes from placing paralegals and
support staff in law firms; and
5 percent comes from legal outplacement.
Practice Area Specialties.
The firm’s searches mirror the broad range
of practice areas of its clients: (1)
Large and small law firms; and (2) Fortune 1000 companies and smaller companies.
Practice
area specialties include antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, capital markets, commercial, corporate, employee benefits, energy, environmental, erisa, estate planning, executive compensation,
finance, healthcare, intellectual
property, international, internet, investment services, labor and employment, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, regulatory, securities, tax, technology, telecommunications, utilities
and white-collar criminal defense.
Approach to Legal
Search
The firm combines fundamental search skills and extensive law firm and corporate networks
with an approach that listens carefully
to clients and prepares a very detailed profile of the targeted candidate. This search process consistently produces a strong panel of candidates with demonstrated excellence that
meets the client's specific needs.
Recruiting
Procedures
The firm's focus is on completing each search promptly and successfully by following the steps
listed below:
a.
Immersing itself in data and information relating to the client's culture, business/legal services and general legal
search needs; b. Acquiring a detailed understanding of the technical
skills, personality traits and other attributes necessary for the candidate to succeed in the position, e.g. (1) the ability to counsel senior management and build strong relationships
and alliances with business personnel
for General Counsel searches and (2) the possession of portable business, practice management and business development skills for law firm partner searches; c. Working
with the client to define the search parameters very precisely at the outset of the search; d. Promoting the position persuasively by providing candidates with thorough, detailed and relevant
information; e. Identifying, through painstaking research, aggressive
networking and skillful interviewing, the best candidates for the position; f. Getting to know the candidates extremely well; g. Presenting thorough, written assessments of the background, skills and position fit for those
candidates who are presented to the client; h. Performing reference checks with precision and discretion; i. Following through with the successful candidate and the client until long after the candidate
starts work. | 
