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Finn Legal Search connects partners with opportunities to grow their business, maximize profitability, improve their brand, and feel valued and supported. We carefully screen for cultural fit, and we target firms with compensation and business models which comport with candidates' goals.   

With growing practice demands and an evolving landscape, it is becoming increasingly difficult for lawyers to measure their current trajectory against their career goals – much less navigate that course prospectively. Finn Legal Search keeps candidates apprised of market intelligence and data points needed for context and perspective.  

We know lawyers are often so busy with work that meaningful self-assessment can prove difficult. We also know attorney time is scarce and valuable. Our aim is to facilitate critical evaluation allowing for a thoughtful, tactical path forward. 

We address what is working well for them currently, what challenges exist, and ways those challenges can be addressed. We provide insight and clarity by sharing salient, real-time information. 

We enjoy meeting attorneys and regularly connect long before any move is anticipated, to share market knowledge and answer questions. We serve as trusted advisors, often for years. And we love hearing that our lawyer contacts feel informed, guided, and supported.  

Attorneys can expect the following from us: 

• an honest assessment – which may include the recommendation they stay with their current law firm or company; 
• long-term career counseling – including business strategies for partner practices; 
• zero pressure;  
• strict confidentiality; 
• factual market data culled from preeminent industry sources and research-based analyses; 
• guidance regarding relevant timing issues; 
• tailored due diligence;
• context pertaining to firms' cultures, business development and marketing resources, leverage, cross-selling support and more; 
• financial modeling;
• information about firms' diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and related statistics;
• professional representation with targeted opportunities; 
• assistance with business plans and lateral questionnaires;  
• help navigating conflicts-related questions;  
• interview preparation and follow-up support;   
• data points and perspective regarding compensation; and 
• advice on how to thrive at a new firm. 

We believe lawyers should only move for what clearly represents a better, more complementary platform, that will allow them to take their practice to the next level. We help candidates gather as much information as possible through the interview process so they're confident assessing each opportunity. And if we have reservations, we share those.  

Selecting optimal target firms for group moves is an exacting, multidimensional process – as is analyzing synergism and fit thereafter. Doing both well requires thorough due diligence, extensive market knowledge, and a unique skillset. Finn Legal Search has a proven track record in this area. We work with groups to understand both their collective requirements and members' individual needs.  

We manage group explorations thoughtfully and carefully – continuously evaluating respective value propositions for each attorney and for the group as a whole. We welcome the opportunity to confidentially discuss the process in further detail.

Advocating for lawyers moving from government roles to private practice requires its own set of skills and approaches. Based in Washington D.C. for over twenty-five years, we are very familiar with the issues presented by these transitions. We have successfully placed many attorneys shifting from government service to firms, including at the partner level. 

We help government candidates best contextualize and leverage their experience in relation to private practice. We track market changes resulting from economic, political, and other factors to counsel candidates about strategically timing a move, and we work to ensure they are valued appropriately.   

We provide government candidates with situationally specific advice with respect to business plans. And we offer information and support as needed from placement, to integration, and beyond.