Supporting Critical Hiring Decisions
November Legal Search works with law firms, corporate legal departments, and select organizations on critical hiring and growth initiatives.
We begin by understanding the objective behind the search, the market, the experience the role requires, and the factors likely to determine long-term fit. Every engagement receives direct senior-level involvement, targeted outreach, and discretion.
Law Firm Search
We assist law firms with associate, counsel, lateral partner, and practice group recruitment across the United States.
Assignments range from a specific hire to broader strategic objectives such as strengthening a practice, entering a new market, expanding an office, adding a key partner, or building a team around a particular capability.
Our approach is selective and market-driven, with an emphasis on identifying attorneys whose experience, business objectives, and professional trajectory align with the opportunity.
Our law firm search work includes:
In-House Search
November Legal Search works with companies and corporate legal departments on senior legal and compliance hiring, including:
Successful in-house searches require more than matching substantive legal experience to a job description. We consider leadership capability, business judgment, executive presence, organizational fit, industry experience, and the role the legal function plays within the company.
The objective is to identify lawyers who can operate effectively as both legal leaders and business partners.
Strategic Growth
Some of the most important law firm opportunities begin without a traditional job description.
November Legal Search works confidentially with law firms, partners, and groups exploring:
These matters require discretion and an understanding of the professional, cultural, and business considerations underlying a potential move or combination.
Our role is focused: identify potential opportunities, make appropriate confidential introductions, and facilitate discussions between interested parties.
Select Executive Search
Through our relationships with General Counsel, corporate legal departments, and senior management teams, we are periodically asked to assist with executive searches outside the legal function.
We accept select C-suite and senior leadership assignments where our network, recruiting experience, and understanding of the organization provide a meaningful advantage.
These may include C-suite, functional, operating, and other business-critical leadership positions. Executive search is an extension of our client relationships rather than a broad generalist recruiting practice.
How We Work
Direct Involvement
Clients work directly with the person leading the search—from defining the need and developing the search strategy through candidate engagement and the completion of the search.
Targeted Search
We favor focused outreach over volume. The objective is not the largest possible slate of résumés, but the right candidates with a credible reason to consider the opportunity.
Confidentiality
Many assignments involve sensitive circumstances: sitting partners and General Counsel, confidential replacement searches, new offices, partner groups, and potential firm combinations. Discretion is fundamental to the process.
Market Perspective
We provide direct feedback on candidate availability, compensation, competitive positioning, and other factors affecting the search.
Boutique Attention. National Reach.
Through our recruiting affiliation with RIM Recruitment Professionals, November Legal Search combines the direct attention and responsiveness of an independent search practice with the resources of a national recruiting network.
The affiliation provides access to broader recruiting reach, technology, operational and compliance support, allowing us to remain focused on clients, candidates, and the search itself.
Begin a Confidential Conversation
Whether the need involves an associate, lateral partner, General Counsel, senior executive, new office, or strategic combination, the first step is understanding the objective.