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Optimizing Your Legal Career<br><i><font size="-1">The Role of Professional Recruiters</font></i>

By Robert J. Brigham
February 01, 2017

Ongoing, active management of your legal career is essential. As such, every successful law firm partner should develop a long-term exclusive relationship with a top-notch, knowledgeable recruiter, someone he or she trusts to provide confidential and unbiased advice and counsel about the market and potential career opportunities.

Unfortunately, partners all too often answer cold calls and find themselves in discussions with one or more firms, relying on friends and family and the firms themselves to help sort out whether to make a move — and if so, to which firm. Without a knowledgeable, objective adviser to help sort out the various options, a partner can be left feeling alone in a stressful process, navigating uncharted territory. (And while recruiting is my day job, I share this advice with you as someone who reached a crossroads in his career as a law firm equity partner.)

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