Employee Spotlight: Steven Rushing
Steven Rushing didn’t set out to become a legal recruiter. He set out to become an IP attorney, and he was a good one. Somewhere between the boutique IP shops and the full-service BigLaw floors though, he realized something: he was more interested in the careers of the lawyers around him than in the practice […]
Employee Spotlight: Richard Lock
Some careers cross borders. Richard Lock’s has crossed an ocean. With over thirteen years in legal recruiting split between the UK and the United States, Richard Lock brings a genuinely rare perspective to his work as a Senior Director at Lateral Link. He started from the ground up, placing contract attorneys into public sector and […]
Anatomy of an In-House Counsel Search
A failed legal hire is rarely just a recruiting mistake. It can delay transactions, create compliance risk, strain management teams, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost productivity and replacement costs. Yet many companies approach legal hiring as an administrative process rather than a strategic business decision. Not every legal hire requires external […]
Using a Legal Recruiter 101: Everything You Need to Know Before You Start
Most attorneys know that legal recruiters exist. Far fewer understand how the relationship actually works: what a recruiter does for you, what you should expect from the process, how to evaluate whether a recruiter is worth working with, and what you need to do on your end to make the search productive. That gap in […]
Why Your Legal Recruiter Should Be a Former Attorney (And How to Find One)
Not all legal recruiters are created equal. While many placement professionals can match a resume to a job description, only a recruiter who has actually practiced law truly understands what it takes to thrive inside a law firm or in-house legal department. If you are a practicing attorney considering a lateral move, a switch to […]
Our Technology Investment: An Examination of Exchange, Its Underlying Technology, and Tools We Use Everyday
Inside the architecture that powers Lateral Link’s recruiting advantage. From Potential to Kinetic Energy In the previous installment of this series, we explored how Lateral Link aggregates disparate market data—from litigation dockets to deal sheets—to create a “Data Advantage.” But as our CTO Mike Heise noted, “Data is potential energy; technology is the kinetic mechanism […]
Employee Spotlight: Evan Jowers
Evan Jowers is a Principal and a key member of Lateral Link’s Partner Practice Group. He leads partner level searches across the United States, Europe, and Asia and serves as Head of Asia and Co Chair of the London Desk. With more than two decades of experience advising firms and partners on complex cross border […]
Inside Lateral Link’s Data Advantage: Turning Information Into Market Insight
How Lateral Link transforms fragmented legal market data into strategic intelligence that redefines competitive advantage. The Data Paradox: Abundance Without Insight In the current era of legal recruitment, “data-driven” has become a buzzword that often obscures more than it illuminates. We are awash in information—hundreds of thousands of attorney profiles, endless litigation dockets, deal sheets, […]
Employee Spotlight: Niko Olsrud McIver
Niko Olsrud McIver brings a unique insider perspective to legal recruiting as an attorney who has held recruiting roles at both prestigious law firms and leading technology companies. In this conversation, she discusses how her background informs her approach to guiding attorneys through strategic career transitions. Can you describe your background and how you found […]
Seeing the Legal Market More Clearly: Connecting Data and Human Insight
How Lateral Link blends connected data and human expertise to better understand an evolving legal market Legal Recruiting Is Too Complex for Intuition Alone Legal recruiting is evolving. The industry moves faster, generates more information, and requires bigger strategic decisions than ever before. With so much activity unfolding across firms, markets, and practice areas, even […]