For candidates seeking firms
Every lawyer’s career follows its own unique path, and it should be a path of your own choosing. Your associate position, whether it be your first or next position, should lead you to a firm where you can find professional advancement and personal satisfaction. MLA’s dedicated Associate Practice Group exists to get you there – and to help you establish an ongoing partnership with a recruiter who can give you expert consultation, guidance and mentorship throughout your career.
Our experienced consultants, most of whom are lawyers themselves, spend every day doing what a busy practicing attorney simply cannot do. We keep current with the legal marketplace in your area and around the world. We study reams of data to discover key trends and movements in the legal profession. We familiarize ourselves with the culture and dynamic of the most influential law firms. Our purpose: to confidently recommend a position where you can do more than just succeed – where you can build on your strengths, make a real difference and thrive personally and professionally.
You can also count on MLA to be your ongoing resource for valuable articles, white papers, conferences, events, and law school-sponsored programs that focus on specific practice areas and law firm cultures. It’s all part of a relationship that we see as much larger than job placement – a lifelong career partnership. The lawyers we’ve worked with throughout their careers agree wholeheartedly.
For firms seeking candidates
If you represent a law firm looking for an associate who can enhance your firm’s success, the benefits are very much the same. We have worked in partnership with our client firms for years – decades, in many cases. In fact, many of the firm members who hire MLA to find outstanding associates were once MLA candidates themselves. From their own experience, they know that MLA recruiters don’t settle for just good matches. They demand real synergy between associate and firm; a blending of needs and strengths that benefits everyone involved for a long time to come.
"I have worked with a lot of recruiters in my nine years as a recruiting professional and I think that MLA is one of the best firms to deal with because of the recruiters they hire!"
Tara Klein, Recruiting Manager - West Coast, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP