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Los Angeles, CA ... Where We Find the Lions®

The Lion Group is a Midwest Legal Recruitment Firm based in Los Angeles, CA with National Reach. We specialize in corporate in-house counsel talent, compliance professionals, law partners and lateral groups.

In the constant state of US and Global economic change, Employers both Corporations and Corporate Defense Law Firms rely on The Lion Group, a Midwest legal recruiting firm, to recruit and place executives, in-house legal counsel, compliance professionals, attorneys and law partner talent.

Corporations rely on us for sourcing legal and compliance talent such as general counsel, chief compliance officer, deputy general counsel, division general counsel and division compliance managers, senior corporate counsel corporate counsel and contract administrators. We serve the Fortune 500 and other publicly traded companies, the largest private employers to companies with 100+ employees or $50 million in revenue and growing.

Corporate Defense Law Firms rely on us to present strategic law partners with portable business of $300,000 to $20 million. We have a 10 year history of placing single partners, groups and opening new offices for our clients. Our law firm clients have been the Am Law 100 & 200 and corporate defense law firms of $50 million and 75 attorneys or more.

Legal recruiting is our forte. At law schools, corporations and law firms locally here in Los Angeles, CA lawyers call us headhunters while others call us legal recruiters or legal search consultants, either way we get the job done and our clients are happy with our in-house attorney, compliance and law partner placements in Los Angeles, CA.



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For Los Angeles Employers, do these questions or scenarios apply to you?

  • Our corporate legal department is looking to add another in-house attorney.
  • Human Resources posted a position on a job board but the quality of attorney candidates were not sufficient. 
  • We have in-house recruiters, but they are either under staffed or do not know how to find the best legal talent for open positions.
  • We are exploring our first in-house corporate counsel hire. 
  • I am curious about your legal recruiting process. 
  • We would like assistance with law partner recruiting.  
  • Our corporate defense law firm would like to discuss our options for opening a new office or a possible combination. 
  • Why Partners are leaving your law firm? 

For Los Angeles Legal & Compliance talent, do these questions or scenarios apply to you?



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*The law firm rankings are based on the 2013 AML 100&200 by Profits Per Partner.
**The top law school rankings are based on the 2013 U.S. News Best Law School ranking.
*^The top ATL law school rankings are based on 2013 Above the Law rankings.
***Salaries are based on a range of small to large law firms that were found for this city.

About Los Angeles, CA

Starting Associate Salary in
Los Angeles, CA ***
$125k - $160k
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Top 100 US Law Schools in
Los Angeles, CA**

Ranked #17University of California--Los Angeles
Ranked #18University of Southern California (Gould)
Ranked #68Loyola Marymount University

Top 100 ATL Law Schools in
Los Angeles, CA*^

Ranked #17UCLA School Law
Ranked #20University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

Top 100 Law Firms in
Los Angeles, CA*

Ranked #2
PPP $3.6m
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Ranked #4
PPP $3.25m
Sullivan & Cromwell
Ranked #7
PPP $3.0m
Kirkland & Ellis
Ranked #8
PPP $2.3m
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Century City
Ranked #8
PPP $2.3m
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Ranked #11
PPP $2.6m
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Ranked #13
PPP $2.3m
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Ranked #15
PPP $2.5m
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Ranked #16
PPP $1.99m
Latham & Watkins
Ranked #19
PPP $2.0m
Dechert
Ranked #20
PPP $1.99m
Paul Hastings
Ranked #23
PPP $1.53m
OMelveny & Myers
Ranked #23
PPP $1.53m
OMelveny & Myers
Century City
Ranked #25
PPP $1.56m
Proskauer Rose
Ranked #26
PPP $1.46m
Sidley Austin
Ranked #27
PPP $1.58m
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Ranked #28
PPP $1.21m
Alston & Bird
Ranked #29
PPP $1.55m
White & Case
Ranked #30
PPP $1.6m
Bingham McCutchen
Ranked #32
PPP $1.58m
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
NL
Ranked #33
PPP $1.46m
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Ranked #35
PPP $1.4m
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Ranked #36
PPP $1.6m
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Century City
Ranked #36
PPP $1.6m
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Ranked #38
PPP $1.45m
Goodwin Procter
Ranked #39
PPP $1.50m
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Ranked #40
PPP $1.29m
Cooley
Ranked #41
PPP $1.39m
Jenner & Block
Ranked #41
PPP $1.39m
Winston & Strawn
Ranked #44
PPP $1.29m
Morrison & Foerster
Ranked #46
PPP $1.46m
McDermott Will & Emery
Ranked #46
PPP $1.33m
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Ranked #49
PPP $1.12m
Arnold & Porter
Ranked #50
PPP $1.32m
Greenberg Traurig
Ranked #52
PPP $1.49m
Kaye Scholer
No result found in Regional Report
Ranked #54
PPP $1.13m
DLA Piper
Ranked #54
PPP $1.13m
DLA Piper
Ranked #54
PPP $1.19m
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Ranked #56
PPP $1.22m
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Ranked #56
PPP $1.22m
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Century City
Ranked #60
PPP $1.07m
Mayer Brown
Ranked #61
PPP $1.04m
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Ranked #62
PPP $1.12m
Hogan Lovells
Ranked #64
PPP $1.05m
Reed Smith
Avenue of the Stars
Ranked #64
PPP $1.05m
Reed Smith
Ranked #65
PPP $980k
Locke Lord
Ranked #67
PPP $900k
Perkins Coie
Ranked #68
PPP $910k
Steptoe & Johnson
Ranked #68
PPP $910k
Steptoe & Johnson
Century City
Ranked #69
PPP $900k
Foley & Lardner
Ranked #70
PPP $800k
Holland & Knight
Ranked #71
PPP $815k
McGuireWoods
Ranked #72
PPP $765k
Baker & Hostetler
Ranked #72
PPP $925k
McKenna Long & Aldridge
Ranked #74
PPP $900k
Crowell & Moring
Ranked #75
PPP $820k
Jones Day
Ranked #76
PPP $735k
Seyfarth Shaw
Ranked #76
PPP $735k
Seyfarth Shaw
Century City
Ranked #77
PPP $930k
K&L Gates
No result found in Regional Report
Ranked #79
PPP $830k
Duane Morris
Ranked #81
PPP $730k
Pepper Hamilton
Ranked #81
PPP $785k
Venable
Ranked #83
PPP $815k
Hunton & Williams
Ranked #84
PPP $765k
Squire Sanders
Ranked #85
PPP $825k
SNR Denton
Ranked #86
PPP $875k
Fulbright & Jaworski
Ranked #87
PPP $670k
Nixon Peabody
Gas Company Tower
Ranked #89
PPP $690k
Blank Rome
Ranked #90
PPP $705k
Bryan Cave
Ranked #92
PPP $720k
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Ranked #93
PPP $660k
Drinker Biddle & Reath
Ranked #97
PPP $540k
Jackson Lewis
Ranked #98
PPP $535k
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Ranked #100
PPP $485k
Littler Mendelson
Ranked #100
PPP $485k
Littler Mendelson
Century City

Top 200 Law Firms in
Los Angeles, CA*

Ranked #1
PPP $2.9m
Irell & Manella
Ranked #0
PPP $1.8m
BuckleySandler
Ranked #2
PPP $1.85m
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman
NL
Ranked #11
PPP $1.2m
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Ranked #4
PPP $1.58m
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell
Ranked #5
PPP $1.45m
Loeb & Loeb
Ranked #12
PPP $1.16m
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Ranked #0
PPP $1.23m
Chadbourne & Parke
Ranked #14
PPP $1.1m
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Ranked #0
PPP $980k
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
Ranked #17
PPP $1.0m
Dickstein Shapiro
Ranked #20
PPP $950k
Kelley Drye & Warren
Ranked #32
PPP $800k
Arent Fox
Ranked #34
PPP $800k
Snell & Wilmer
Ranked #55
PPP $615k
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
Century City
Ranked #27
PPP $850k
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Ranked #45
PPP $685k
Barnes & Thornburg
Ranked #51
PPP $660k
Sedgwick
Ranked #36
PPP $765k
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Ranked #43
PPP $695k
Gordon & Rees
Ranked #0
PPP $710k
Cozen O’Connor
Ranked #54
PPP $630k
Polsinelli
Ranked #59
PPP $560k
Epstein Becker & Green
Ranked #57
PPP $565k
Fox Rothschild
Ranked #60
PPP $555k
Dykema Gossett
Ranked #35
PPP $775k
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
Ranked #80
PPP $465k
Akerman Senterfitt
Ranked #68
PPP $525k
Ballard Spahr
Ranked #64
PPP $535k
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Ranked #76
PPP $495k
Davis Wright Tremaine
Ranked #87
PPP $450k
Fisher & Phillips
Ranked #66
PPP $530k
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear
Ranked #84
PPP $455k
Kutak Rock
Ranked #94
PPP $425k
Lathrop & Gage
Ranked #0
PPP $370k
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