International attorney recruitment is strong in Brazil. According to UK legal publication Legal Week, Davis Polk is set to enter the booming Brazilian M&A market with the addition of two partners formerly at Mayer Brown in Sao Paolo. In connection with this development, Charles River Recruiting principal Adam S. Weiss was quoted in the leading [...]
As a legal recruiter working with partner-level candidates, most of my work consists of speaking with law firm partners and discussing potential opportunities at other firms. But often I’m asked about other sorts of opportunities—for example, going in-house with a corporation. While in-house situations have their benefits—generally a more convivial lifestyle, free from the demands [...]
Lawyers, particularly those at AmLaw 100 or UK Magic Circle firms are generally well-compensated professionals. Granted, attorneys at these law firms rarely take home as much as their peers in banking, but lawyer compensation is rarely the chief complaint of lateral partners seeking to switch firms. Rather, primary motivations typically include the desire to avoid [...]
June 13, 2011—“Although The American Lawyer reports that over 2,000 big firm law partners switch firms each year, the majority of partner-level lateral candidacies fail,” according to attorney and legal recruiter Adam S. Weiss, author of a new book entitled The Lateral Lawyer: Opportunities & Pitfalls for the Law Firm Partner. “The timing is definitely [...]
In the lateral attorney recruiting business, the buzz-word “platform” has been in use for at least a decade and encompasses a broad range of meanings. To some law partners, the term simply means a base of operations from which to run a law practice that could be quite independent of other partners at the firm. [...]
California’s lateral intellectual property partner market is robust, as demonstrated by some significant recent (2011) moves. For example, in March, Washington, DC-based Dickstein Shapiro has expanded its West Coast intellectual IP practice with the recruiting of an office in Silicon Valley (Redwood City). The office, which now comprises 7 attorneys, was formed by the recruitment [...]
International legal firms in London are reportedly seeing a striking increase in lateral partner hiring. Legal Week research shows that increasing numbers of firms are recruiting lateral partner hires, an almost 50 percent rebound in the last year alone. Legal Week research surveyed 62 Square Mile international firms that have foreign practices operating in London. [...]
Los Angeles-based Paul, Hastings continues the trend of US firms recruiting UK talent in London, with the announcement that Garrett Hayes, formerly of Macfarlanes, will be joining the firm. Hayes, an M&A and private equity specialist, had been a partner at Macfarlane’s since 2005. This latest lateral addition continues the expansion of the Paul, Hastings [...]
June 22, 2011–New York-based Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP announced today that leading real estate attorneys Wallace L. Schwartz and Adam M. Endick have joined the firm as partners to launch the firm’s real estate practice. Both were formerly with Skadden, where Mr. Schwartz served as global head of Skadden’s Real Estate Group. According [...]
The recruitment of partners through the merger of AmLaw firms with specialty boutique firms continues. The mergers provide the larger firms with added capabilities (and clients) that the specialty firms’ lawyers bring. The acquired boutiques gain the expanded platform that an NLJ-250 firm offers. Large firms often find that their existing clients expect the kind [...]
