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The difference, concretely
Two ways to run a partner search.
OnBoard Legal is a retained legal recruiting firm, and that one word decides most of what follows. One way of running a partner search puts your firm’s name in play across the market without your say. It is worth knowing which one you are buying.
Contingency
- The same candidate goes to five firms at once.
- The recruiter is paid only if somebody says yes, so the model rewards volume rather than fit.
- Your search, and often your name, becomes market intelligence for everyone else.
- Nobody is accountable for the searches that quietly do not happen.
Retained, and selective
- Selective about the searches we take, so each one gets full focus. Your name is never shopped around behind your back.
- A retainer pays for the right answer, including when the right answer is no.
- Cash drives the decision, but culture and camaraderie close it, and we read the whole picture rather than the headline number.
- We keep the process tight, and we remind you that you are selling your firm too, not only evaluating a candidate.
Practice areas
Where we work
Nationwide reach
When a client tells a firm to open in a city and promises to send the work, the firm that moves first wins the market.
Growth is rarely abstract. We recruit nationwide, with the local depth to know which partners are movable in a given city and why. Whether you are expanding into a new region or deepening a practice you already lead, we bring the market knowledge the decision requires.
Ready to talk?
If your firm is growing and tired of the old recruiting model, let us talk about a search built around your strategy.
Every conversation is confidential, and your name is never shopped around the market without your say.
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