Brooks McAllister advises leading law firms and senior lawyers on lateral partner hires, team moves, and succession — the profession's most consequential decisions, managed with rigour and complete discretion.
We help firm leaders identify, approach, and secure the partners and teams who will shape their next decade — with the discretion that senior hiring demands.
We advise partners weighing a move on the market, the options, and the timing — confidentially, and with their long-term interests placed first.
Focused entirely on the partner tier of the legal profession — where relationships, judgment, and confidentiality matter most.
Individual partner appointments, from first approach to signed offer.
Coordinated moves of practice groups and multi-partner teams.
Helping firms enter new markets or strengthen a practice from the ground up.
Planning the orderly transition of clients, relationships, and leadership.
Confidential introductions and advice on firm-level opportunities.
Considered advice on the competitive landscape, compensation, and timing.
Focused on the practice areas and legal markets where partner moves are most active — and connected well beyond them.
And across the wider international legal market, through a network built over many years.
A measured, confidential process — the same at every level, from first conversation to lasting outcome.
We begin in confidence, understanding the firm's strategy or the partner's ambitions before anything else.
Discreet, thorough mapping of the market — the right people, not simply the available ones.
We guide both sides through approach, negotiation, and transition, to an outcome that lasts.
Brooks McAllister was built to do one thing exceptionally well: recruit at partner level in the legal profession.
We are deliberately small, senior, and discreet — trusted with the conversations that happen long before a move ever becomes public. Every mandate is handled personally, by people who understand the market and the weight of the decisions involved.
No volume, no databases sent in bulk. Only careful, considered introductions between the right firms and the right partners.
The most important moves in a career are rarely advertised.Brooks McAllister
Whether you are shaping a team or weighing a move of your own, we would be glad to talk — in complete confidence, and without obligation.
