Legal recruitment is an art and a science. Partners need to know what they’re worth, which law firm platforms might better suit their business, and where there’s a good cultural fit. Law firms are making their own kind of strategic moves, bringing aboard new practice areas just as any savvy business adds new products and services. In the business world, most mergers fail their desired goals. In the world of legal recruiting, the results are typically far better, if not perfect, precisely because of the intimate experience and good judgment of the parties’ intermediary, the legal recruiter.
Associate? Go to our associate recruiting page. Law firms see our law firm recruiting page.
Our legal recruiters specialize in partners, in market valuations of lawyers’ practices, and in determining the right platform and cultural fit. Confidentially, discreetly, all but invisibly, our legal recruiters will provide you with a strategic business plan of your options, eligible law firms, your market value, and platform comparisons.
Lateral partner hiring is once again heating up — if you know where to look. In some cities, and some practice areas, the hiring is particularly hot. We’ll tell you where your time would be best spent. We’ll assess your practice, armed with information on your rate, billables, and your portable book of business, and you’ll get a very good idea of your market value and the best platforms for your practice.
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Lateral candidates often tell our legal recruiters that their compensation has not kept up with the market or with the partner’s perceived value to the firm. Some partners say their compensation would be higher but for disproportionate profits paid to the firm’s high-flyers. Other partners say it’s the lower performers who are being paid too much. And some partners feel both are true.
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Let Us Value Your Practice Now. That doesn’t mean you’re committing to move, to talk to a firm, or even to name Charles River your legal recruitment firm. Now, you’re merely informing yourself. Now, like a rational businessperson, you’re just doing research, doing your due diligence. 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. No one else will be the wiser. And you don’t have to decide a thing. 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.
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Find the Platform that will let you Take Off. For most partners, compensation is less of an issue than their firm’s platform. Not all firms are alike in this regard, and, to add complexity, they change. For partners to resist change (or the information that would advise change) is to fail to optimize their practices. Is your firm able to leverage the value of your clients? Are your partners able to help you monetize all your clients’ legal needs, and not just those you can serve 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 optimal for you.
What are the chances you somehow found the best firm for you, and that the landscape hasn’t changed since then?
Employing decades of experience in the legal field, Charles River Recruiting works 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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