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De Novo
Access top legal talent – including attorneys not actively searching – through a strategic, discreet, and market-informed approach. We connect exceptional legal professionals to opportunities that align with your firm's culture, leadership, and long-term vision. Hire with confidence. Hire with De Novo!
How We Work
Understand Your Firm
We start by learning your firm’s culture, leadership style, and strategic goals to ensure every search aligns with your long-term vision. We will speak in person, over the phone, or on a video call to capture this information and gain a clear understanding.
Identify Exceptional Talent
We are proactive in reaching out to legal talent and do not wait for candidates to come to us. Through our active network, comprehensive database, and market insight, we connect you with attorneys and support staff — including those not actively searching — whose experience and goals match your needs.
Thoughtful Introductions
We manage initial outreach to ensure practice fit. We carefully evaluate credentials, qualifications, and experience. This allows us to present only candidates who are a strong fit both professionally and culturally.
Support the Decision Process
We provide guidance, perspective, and answers throughout the hiring process, helping your team make confident, well-informed decisions.
Get an Acceptance
Once you decide to extend an offer, we will do our best to obtain an acceptance from the candidate. Oftentimes, the candidate has questions, competing offers, timelines, etc. that may impede an acceptance. Our job is to get your offer accepted.
Deliver Lasting Results
Our goal is strategic, long-term placements that strengthen your team and support sustained success for your firm. We make placements guaranteed to last.
FAQ
Hiring the right associate or partner requires more than reviewing résumés. It requires market insight, thoughtful timing, discretion, and access to talented attorneys who may not be actively exploring new opportunities.
We partner with law firms to identify and introduce attorneys whose experience, goals, and professional approach align with the needs of the practice. Every search is guided by insight, timing, and precision, ensuring thoughtful introductions and well-matched placements. Start your search today and build a legal team positioned for lasting success.
Through ongoing conversations with attorneys across multiple markets, we maintain a real-time understanding of their practices, career objectives, and leadership aspirations. Because of these relationships, many searches begin with a clear sense of who may be well positioned for the opportunity. This allows you to move forward efficiently while maintaining a thoughtful and selective hiring process.
Many accomplished attorneys are not actively searching for new roles. In fact, the vast majority of our candidates are not job searching.
We share your firm’s story — including its culture, leadership, and growth strategy — with attorneys who may be a strong practice fit. Sharing a compelling opportunity is often what converts passive job seekers to actives ones. In addition, these conversations help ensure your firm is visible to high-caliber talent and well- positioned within the market.
Timely communication and careful follow-through are central to every search. We work to keep the process organized, efficient, and confidential, allowing firms to move forward with clarity, options, and momentum.
To get the conversation started, please fill out the adjacent form and we will get back to you within 24 hours. We look forward to partnering with you