Our process is built for Miami Real Estate failure modes—late asset-class underwriting, developer walls discovered after partner interviews, and dual-track bidding between Florida-founded platforms and national entrants. We open with a written mandate: practice economics, target asset classes (multifamily, hospitality, office repositioning, construction finance, LatAm capital), seniority band, non-negotiable conflicts, hybrid policy and compensation authority. Only then do we map the addressable Real Estate associate set from the ~10,000 lawyers we map in Miami, filtered by class year, asset mix and known platform walls.
Approach is confidential and sequential. We validate interest, recent matter ownership and reason for move—especially the ownership and LatAm-access drivers the interview cohort names—before names reach the client. Conflicts grids run early—often before first-round partner interviews—so a late-stage developer or fund wall does not waste committee time. Comp discussions stay inside the firm's real scale. Counter-offer coaching assumes the 33% Miami associate incidence our mandate telemetry records and plans resignation timing around live closing calendars.
Close support runs through acceptance, resignation, counter-offer navigation and a 30-day integration check with the practice group. Over the trailing three years that discipline produced 23 completed Miami Associate Recruiting searches at a 93% completion rate and a 6-to-12-week typical timeline. The work is technical lateral Real Estate associate search—matter logs, conflicts grids and class-year precision—not mass outreach across The Florida Bar directory. Sartori's continuous research programme—nearly 1.5 million lawyer profiles mapped globally and quarterly surveys since 2019—keeps the method honest when partners tell us ownership will not transfer.
