The best legal hires
start with
I’m not looking to move.
Legal search for firms and companies where one wrong hire costs too much.
A search that begins from the whole market.
Most firms recruit from the candidates who raise their hand. We start from the entire field — mapped, maintained and qualified — then apply judgment to it.
- 560,000+
- lawyers in our proprietary market map
- Market map
- 7,700+
- unadvertised and published roles tracked
- Live openings
- 11
- industry sectors covered in depth
- Sector practice
- 20
- practice areas, US & international
- Practice coverage
A specialist, not a generalist.
We provide specialised executive search and recruitment for the legal sector and nothing else — for law firms and corporations, across the United States and internationally.
That focus is the point. A generalist sees a résumé; we read a practice. We know which book of business is portable and which is borrowed, which counsel is ready for the GC chair and which compliance leader can stand in front of a regulator. The result is a shortlist that is shorter, and right.
Three sides of every search.
We sit between the firms and companies that hire and the senior lawyers who move — and we are trusted by all three.
- I
For Law Firms
Lateral partners, practice-group lift-outs, associates and leadership — sourced from the whole market, not a rented list.
Hire for your firm - II
For Companies
General counsel, compliance and legal-operations leaders for legal departments at every stage of scale.
Build your legal team - III
For Candidates
A trusted partner for the most important move of your career. We open doors that are not on any job board.
Explore a move
Eight disciplines. One standard of rigor.
From a lateral partner move to a first general counsel, each search is run on the same evidence-led method.
- 01 Lateral Partner Recruiting Private lateral and practice-group moves for US law firms.
- 02 Associate & Attorney Recruiting Associates and counsel, matched on practice depth and trajectory.
- 03 In-House & General Counsel GC, deputy GC and senior counsel for companies of every stage.
- 04 Compliance & Regulatory Chief compliance officers, regulatory and risk leadership.
- 05 Legal Operations Legal-ops, legal-tech and the function behind the function.
- 06 Interim & Fractional Counsel On-demand legal capacity, deployed at the speed of the matter.
- 07 Law Firm Management Managing partners, COO, CFO and the legal C-suite.
- 08 Board & Advisory Non-executive directors and governance appointments.
Every practice, read as a practice.
We recruit across the full range of legal practice — and go deep within each. The areas we cover most:
The industry behind the legal need.
A regulatory matter in fintech is not a regulatory matter in healthcare. We recruit with the sector in view, not just the practice.
- 01 Technology, Media & Telecom
- 02 Financial Services & Banking
- 03 Private Capital & Asset Management
- 04 Insurance
- 05 Healthcare & Life Sciences
- 06 Energy, Power & Cleantech
- 07 Real Estate, Construction & Infrastructure
- 08 Manufacturing, Industrials & Mobility
- 09 Consumer, Retail & Hospitality
- 10 Public Sector, Education & Nonprofit
- 11 Professional & Business Services
Local intelligence, on a global map.
From New York and the US metros to London, the Gulf and Asia — we run searches where our clients build, with intelligence drawn from each market.
Proprietary market intelligence, applied with judgment.
Data finds the names; experienced consultants make the calls that matter.
Our in-house intelligence engine builds and maintains a living map of the legal market — firms, practices, movements and signals — so a search starts from the full field, not a stale database.
- 01 100% market mapping, not list-shopping
- 02 Passive candidates approached privately
- 03 Book-of-business and conflict diligence
- 04 Evidence over instinct, judgment over data
Depth where practice meets specialism and place.
Our market map runs three axes deep — the practice, the specialism within it, and the place it sits in — so a search can be as precise as the mandate.
Confidential and published openings, live.
A curated, anonymised board of partner, in-house, compliance and legal-operations roles — many never advertised elsewhere.
Data the market quotes.
Salary benchmarks, lateral-movement data, hiring guides and our flagship reports — published openly, because useful beats gated.
Start a conversation
The right hire begins with a conversation.
Whether you are building a team or weighing a move, we listen first. No obligation.