The goal of MLA's Partner Group is simple:  We help successful partners make intelligent choices.  If you are a successful partner considering a change, we'd like to talk to you on a strictly confidential basis about how we can help.

A successful partner's move to a new firm involves a complex interplay of financial, cultural and personal concerns. It is a process whose outcome has enormous consequences for that partner and his or her family and clients. It is tantamount to "career malpractice" for a partner to make such a change without getting the best professional advice available. We believe that Major, Lindsey & Africa is uniquely positioned to provide that advice.
Here's why:

Ø      Specialized Expertise:  Representing a partner is not the same as representing an associate or an in-house lawyer.  Issues around partnership structure and compensation, client transition, and fiduciary responsibilities that routinely come up in the context of representing a partner either don't exist or are significantly less complex in those other contexts.  MLA has a dedicated Partner Practice Group comprised of 32 consultants who focus on advising partners.  No other legal search firm in the world dedicates comparable resources to partner representation.

Ø      Market Knowledge:  You can't make good decisions without good information.  Information that appears on a website, or that comes from a hiring partner trying to persuade a lateral partner to join their firm simply is not enough.  We provide information - both tangible and intangible -- accumulated over the course of more than two decades of having worked with firms and, in many cases, with former partners of those firms.  You also can't make good decisions based on incomplete information.  What's going on in a single office of a firm with 10 or more offices can give a woefully inaccurate picture of the firm as a whole.  MLA is the only legal search firm that has offices in all of the major U.S. cities and the two most critical international destinations for U.S. firms (London and Hong Kong).  The breadth and depth of our market knowledge ensures that partners we represent have the best information available when choosing a new law firm.

Ø      Track Record:  No other legal search firm can match MLA's track record of success:   Several hundred partners placed at more than 100 different law firms, from global and national firms to regional firms and boutiques.  Having already placed lawyers at many of the firms that a new partner candidate might consider means we're in a position to advise partners about the nuances of the process, such as how a firm approaches compensation for lateral partners, capital requirements, client transitions and a host of other critical considerations.

Ø      Credibility:  The very first thing a law firm learns about a potential new partner is the recruiter he or she has chosen as a representative - and those first impressions do matter.  The track record established by MLA since its founding in 1982 gives us unparalleled credibility with our law firm clients which redounds to the benefit of the partners we represent.  Our clients have told us this both directly and indirectly through the media:  In the only two surveys ever conducted of legal recruiting firms, MLA was the top-rated firm on both occasions, with The American Lawyer describing us as "in a league apart" from our competitors and WorldLaw Business, in a survey of the law firms of the AmLaw 100, rating us "the best in the U.S."