A Changing London Landscape for U.S. JDs

As a former associate with Cleary Gottlieb’s Paris office and a Senior Director heading up Lateral Link’s London and Paris recruiting practices, I have been working with U.S. lawyers looking to move to Europe for the last 15 years. In 2014, Above the Law published my series on Planning for a Legal Career Overseas (Part […]
Will We See A Wave Of White-Collar Litigation?

…And what implications might that have for lateral hiring in the white-collar world? When we talk about practice areas that might actually benefit from the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, bankruptcy tops the list. And this makes sense, given the big-name bankruptcies that have been filed in recent weeks, including J. Crew and Neiman […]
The American Lawyer Discusses Lateral Link's Innovative Business Model

American Lawyer The American Lawyer Discusses Lateral Link’s Innovative Business Model Will New Legal Recruiters Succeed With Pay-to-Place Business Model? Zach Lowe The American Lawyer June 19, 2008 When Lateral Link launched in the spring of 2006, traditional recruiters criticized the upstart firm for paying $10,000 to each associate it placed in a firm. Rather […]
Michael Allen Quoted In The American Lawyer

Back to “In the News” American Lawyer Michael Allen Quoted In The American Lawyer New Venture to Focus on Partner Placements Posted by Drew Combs In a combination that brings together a member of the legal recruiting world’s old guard with some of the profession’s young Turks, Frank Kimball and the principals at Lateral Link […]