Brian Davis | Advancing Careers: Insights for Outside Counsel From a Legal Recruiter

Hiring Insights

Brian Davis joins Mosah Fernandez Goodman on this episode of Hiring Insights to discuss advancing your career as an outside counsel. Brian handles lateral partner recruiting and in-house searches for financial services clients and law firms. He is particularly skilled in private equity, hedge fund, corporate, corporate finance, capital markets, compliance and tax searches for major financial institutions, broker-dealers, hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and law firms, domestically and internationally. In addition to his work in the United States, Brian has extensive experience with international firms in London, the European Union and the Middle East.

Topics discussed:

When do law firms choose to engage a search firm and what does that process look like?

Tools that candidates should be utilizing when either contemplating a search or in the middle of one.

If you’re an associate or partner considering a move, what active steps should you be taking?

No one is worried about your career except for you, you have to manage it.

Expectations for an attorney’s book of business and does that impact their ability to be recruited.

Common myths about the recruiting process.

Trends in the legal industry.

Red flags that candidates should avoid.