Carpenter Legal Search, Inc.

Legal Recruiters Strategically Building Teams for Over 35 Years

Legal search and consulting firm with a reputation for completing difficult, specialized permanent attorney searches for corporations and law firms nationwide

Discover the Search Process

It isn’t magic, miracle or musical chairs. We don’t cross fingers. Our dedicated, detailed, and effective search process is built on steadfast, time-tested recruiting methods and decades of experience. We don’t leave anything, including finding the right fit for your legal team, to chance.

In-House & Law Firm Recruiting

• Recruiting Chief Legal Officer (CLO), General Counsel (GC), Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), Deputy General Counsel, Chief Counsel, Division Counsel, Managing Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Counsel, Counsel / Establishing New Legal Departments
• Lateral Partner Recruiting, Practice Group Acquisitions, Firm Mergers
• Market Research / Competitive Analysis
• Consulting

Focused on the Fit®

The employer-employee relationship is like all other relationships in that it is an intentional meshing of experience, skills, and personal qualities to create a larger, more comprehensive entity that is better suited to solve problems, to share accomplishments and to thrive.  

Each relationship, and its strengths and challenges, is different, and each requires different nuances of communication, learning, and other soft skills to keep the bond, and the benefits derived therefrom, strong. Anyone who has worked on a team could very easily vouch for the value of complementary skills and emotional intelligence.

 As legal recruiters, we may start with what is on paper to begin to assess if someone has the right skill sets for a position, but we know that finding just the right fit for any legal team extends beyond experience alone and can very much depend on the extensive development of certain soft skills that are specifically required for the position or generally are desired by the corporation or law firm. 

Sometimes, the essence of the person wanted for a position may be hard to define. For example, we might receive a request from a client stating, “We need someone who engenders trust from the Board right out of the gate.” The solution to what engenders trust for that organization’s Board may be complex and not as easily derived as the solution for another client who requests something more task-oriented such as, “We need someone who can draft a commercial real estate lease for a large retail chain.”

 For us, this is where the rubber meets the road. We are focused on the fit® throughout the search process, delving into the complexities of what is required as a whole in each working relationship so that our client can make a solid addition to their team and the new hire has the greatest opportunity for success.