If you are a partner and you’re considering a move, there are two crucial pieces of knowledge you must have: you must know what your practice is worth, and you must know whether, among your peer firms, there are better platforms to serve your clients and to leverage their synergies with other partners’ practices.
Associate? Go to our associate recruiting page. Law firms see our law firm recruiting page.
Any one of our top partner legal headhunters can start, today, the work of finding those answers for you. Confidentially, discreetly, all but invisibly, our headhunters can deliver to you a strategic business plan of options, names, market value, and platform comparisons.
Firms are hiring lateral partners again. The legal headhunting market is heating up — if you know where to look, like we do. In some cities, and some practice areas, the hiring is particularly hot. We’ll tell you what your best bet is. After a brief assessment of your practice, and armed with information on your hourly rate, annual billables, and an accurate, realistic estimate of your portable book of business, we can give you a very good idea of what you could be earning elsewhere, and how good the fit another law firm’s platform could be for your clients. Not to mention how another law firm culture might work better for you personally.
Partners often tell our legal headhunters that their firm’s compensation has not kept up with the market or with the partner’s relative contribution to the firm. Some say their compensation suffers because, they believe, the firm’s high-flyers are taking a disproportionate share. Some say lower performers are being paid too much. And some partners have the unfortunate distinction of being hit with both at once.
Let Us Value Your Practice Now. It’s too early for you to decide to move. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you are making that decision now. Now, you are only collecting information. Now, like a rational businessperson, you are simply doing research, 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 just how much your practice is worth. We’ll tell you, and no one else will know, 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.
Find the Platform that will let you Take Off. For most partners, compensation isn’t the main issue. It’s the client platform. Is your current firm capable of leveraging the value of your clients, of monetizing all their legal needs? Could you be making more revenue 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. After all, what are the odds that you somehow found the best firm for you without ongoing research on and education in the market?
Employing decades of experience in the legal industry, Charles River Recruiting works with you to identify the firms you find most attractive—and to surface opportunities of which you might not otherwise be aware. We perform no-names reconnaissance on your behalf, walk you through the legal recruitment 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 just takes a minute. Contacting us doesn’t mean you’re even choosing us; contact a number of legal recruiters, talk to them, and compare. But start here. You’ve got everything to gain.
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