OnBoard Legal

Modern Legal Recruiting

OnBoard Legal

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Five ways a firm grows, and the one that fits.

What we do

Five ways a firm grows, and the one that fits.

Every engagement starts from a different question. A partner you have identified. A combination someone has raised. A department with nobody senior in it. A firm that runs on committees. Or a decision nobody has made yet about where any of it is going.

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What it covers
Start here if
Lateral recruitingIndividual partners and practice groups, recruited for growth, geographic expansion, practice depth and client acquisition. Run as an acquisition rather than a hire, with what is portable verified before anyone relies on a number.You have a seat, or a name, in mind
Merger servicesGroup hires and combinations, from either side of the table. Bigger impact than any single hire, and every issue multiplied with it. Most of these conversations begin years before anyone is ready to act.You are approaching, or being approached
In-house placementsGeneral counsel and senior in-house search for companies building out legal leadership, screened for commercial judgment rather than credentials alone. We work with law firm partners every day, which is where a lot of that talent still sits.The business needs to stop worrying about something
Law firm executivesThe operators who run a modern firm: operations, finance, marketing, technology and talent. A partnership is not a company, and the hire has to know it, because the people whose behavior has to change are owners rather than reports.Something needs running better
Strategic consultingDecide what you are building before you hire for it. The options priced honestly and argued out with leadership. Sometimes this ends in a decision not to run a search at all, which is the part a contingency recruiter cannot sell you.Nobody has settled the direction yet

Not sure which one this is?

Most firms are not, at the point they call. One conversation is usually enough to know whether there is a search here worth running, and if there is not, we will tell you that too.

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Every conversation is confidential, and your name is never shopped around the market without your say.