Our process is built for San Diego therapeutic conflicts density—device companies, clinical sponsors and multi-office patent or product lists—and for partnership-committee scrutiny of portable books, not volume outreach. We open with a written mandate: practice economics, target portable-revenue band, non-negotiable therapeutic walls, guarantee authority and committee timeline. Only then do we map the addressable Healthcare & Life Sciences partner set from the ~11,000 lawyers we map in San Diego, filtered by sub-practice (biotech corporate, FDA/device regulatory, life-sciences transactions, healthcare disputes), origination band and known platform constraints.
Approach is confidential and sequential. We validate interest, three-year originations, engagement letters, multi-office therapeutic matters and reason for move before names reach the client. Conflicts grids run early—often before first-round partner interviews—so a late-stage sponsor wall does not waste executive-committee time. Comp discussions stay inside the firm's real guarantee and capital authority; we do not float packages the partnership will not ratify. Counter-offer coaching assumes the 44% San Diego partner incidence our mandate telemetry records and plans resignation timing around live financings and FDA milestones.
Close support runs through acceptance, resignation, counter-offer navigation and a 90-day integration check on client transition. Over the trailing three years that discipline produced 15 completed San Diego Partner Recruiting searches at a 94% completion rate and a 5-month median timeline. The work is technical lateral Healthcare & Life Sciences partner search—matter diet, therapeutic walls and guarantee design—not mass name-gathering across a generic partner list.
