At Charles River Recruiting, legal recruiting means strategic career and business planning customized for attorneys and law firms, respectively. We tell partners what they’re worth (and law firms what they can reasonably expect to offer). We help both sides evaluate the partner’s ability to leverage the firm’s platform, and the firm’s ability to leverage the partner’s skills and client base.
Associate? Go to our associate recruiting page. Law firms see our law firm recruiting page.
Our legal recruiters specialize in assessing the market value of lawyers’ practices, and in ascertaining the right platform and cultural fit. Confidentially, discreetly, all but invisibly, our legal recruiting process provides lawyers with a strategic business plan of their options, the firms for which they’re eligible, their market value, and a comparison of the available law firm platforms. And we make it our business to understand law firms’ strategic plans as well as any outsider can (and better than many insiders, in our experience), so that we can give law firms the best possible counsel on which lawyers would be a good fit, and which would be less optimal.
Lateral candidates sometimes tell our legal recruiting staff that their compensation has not kept pace with the market or with the partner’s perceived value to the firm. Some candidates say their compensation would be higher but for disproportionate profits paid to the firm’s high-fliers. Other partners say it’s the lower performers who are being paid too much. And some partners feel both are true.
Partners: Get Your Own Custom Profit Potential and Business Strategy Evaluation
Let Us Value Your Practice Now. No commitment to a recruiter — you’re just informing yourself. Like a rational businessperson, you’re just doing research, doing your due diligence — or rather, because you’re busy, letting us do it for you. You owe it to yourself, your clients, your family, even the other partners or associates who are part of your team, to find out the market value of your practice.
We’ll tell you. You don’t have to decide a thing right now. But you do want to have full information, lest you decide to move or not to move from a position of ignorance of your options and your true worth.
Find the Platform that will let you Take Off. For most partners, finding the right platform is more important than fixing their compensation. Rightly so, because the right platform can multiply one’s earnings via synergies among clients and practice areas that maximize revenue per client. Not all firms are alike in their platforms, and, to add complexity, they change. If you are resisting change (or the information that would dictate change), you are probably not optimizing the value of your practice.
Is your current firm able to leverage the full value of your clients? Are your current partners able to help you monetize all your clients’ legal needs, and not just those you’re able to answer yourself? Could you be making more income per client elsewhere? If you haven’t done the research and comparison then there’s a high probability that your firm is not profit-maximizing for you.
What are the chances that in your current firm, you somehow found the best fit for you, and that the landscape of firms and the mix of your clients haven’t changed since then?
With decades of experience in the legal field, our expert legal recruiters — Ivy graduates all — work with partners to identify the law firms they find most attractive—and to identify opportunities of which partners might not otherwise be aware. We perform no-names reconnaissance on your behalf, walk you through the legal recruitment and interview process, and provide actionable feedback based on our constant communications with law firms and law firm partners. We also serve as an indispensable resource during the negotiation phase of the placement process.
Let’s get started. It takes just a minute. You’re not choosing us; in fact, contact other legal recruiters, talk to them, and compare. But start here, now. You’ve got everything to gain.
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