Legal search
The right lawyer is rarely
the one applying.
Bowery Partners is a legal search firm that works differently. We find the lawyers who are not looking, and bring you the ones worth a conversation.
We take the hard roles.
A well known company posts a role and gets hundreds of applications. That company does not need us.
We are for the other roles: a narrow specialty, a first legal hire, a seniority level that asks someone to give up a partnership track, a city or a sector that does not draw a crowd.
For those roles the strongest candidates are already employed and already busy. Reaching them is the whole job, and it is the part we built Bowery Partners to do.
- We start with the seat.What this person must own, the one must-have, who they will work with, the office arrangement and the pay band. That decides who we look for.
- We look across the whole market.Not the applicant pile. Every lawyer whose practice, seniority, and location fit, whether or not they are thinking about a move. For a typical role, more than a thousand profiles are screened against criteria we write down first, and about eighty lawyers are approached.
One typical role. Each dot is a profile screened against the role's criteria. - We have the conversations.Our system builds and screens the market. We do the assessing, the calls and the deciding.
- You meet a short list.A few people who fit and are open to talking, each with a note on why. Then we run the process through to an offer.
ExampleShortlist note
Senior associate, investment funds
- Practice
- Fund formation and secondaries; regularly leads LP negotiations.
- Status
- Open to in-house.
- Why this person
- Has done the exact deal type the role needs, at the scale you run it.
An example of how each candidate comes to you: the fit, and the reason.
- Owner of customer cloud contracts at a data center operator
- First US finance counsel for a company with an overseas parent
- Construction and project finance counsel for an infrastructure company
In-house and law firm roles across the US and in London: corporate, finance and funds, litigation, employment, real estate, tax, IP and technology, energy and healthcare.
We reach the lawyers who aren't looking.
If you heard from us, it is because a role we are working on matches your practice and your level. You do not need to be job hunting for that to be worth five minutes.
Nothing about you goes to a firm or company without your say. If the timing is wrong, tell us, and we will keep your preferences on file for when it is right. We keep only what a search needs, never share it without your consent, and delete it when you ask.
Why Bowery Partners exists.
Most search firms are one recruiter and the people that recruiter happens to know. When they are busy, or simply do not know the right lawyer, the search stalls.
Bowery Partners runs every search the same way, written down and repeatable: the criteria first, the whole market screened, every approach tracked. A small team does the judgment work on top of that, so no search depends on one recruiter's memory, network or calendar.
Start with a role, or a conversation.
hello@bowerypartners.netWe reply within one business day. The first call is twenty minutes, and if we are not the right firm for the role, we will say so.
Bowery Partners is based in New York.