Minneapolis, Minnesota Legal Recruiters

Minneapolis, MN ... Where We Find the Lions®

The Lion Group is a Midwest Legal Recruitment Firm based in Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis, MN.



Ask These Questions

For Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, MN

Starting Associate Salary in
Minneapolis, MN ***
$65k - $130k
Minneapolis, MN Founded1849
State CapitalSaint Paul MN
City Fact about
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapoliss name is attributed to the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city
City Nickname
Minneapolis, MN
City of Lakes
Top Industries
Minneapolis, MN
Services
Trade
Manufacturing
Population
Minneapolis, MN
400,070
Density
Minneapolis, MN
7
Top three largest NLJ350 firms' offices by head count
Minneapolis, MN
Faegre Baker Daniels
Dorsey & Whitney
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Mayor
Minneapolis, MN
Betsy Hodges
Notable People
Minneapolis, MN
Paul D. Boyer
Leonid Hurwicz
Major Employers
Minneapolis, MN
Target
University of Minnesota
Allina Health
Fairview Health Services
Wells Fargo
City History
Minneapolis, MN
Dakota Sioux were the regions sole residents until French explorers arrived around 1680.
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Top 100 US Law Schools in
Minneapolis, MN**

Ranked #19University of Minnesota--Twin Cities

Top 100 ATL Law Schools in
Minneapolis, MN*^

Ranked #32University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Top 100 Law Firms in
Minneapolis, MN*

Ranked #43
PPP $1.6m
Fish & Richardson
Ranked #54
PPP $1.13m
DLA Piper
Ranked #86
PPP $875k
Fulbright & Jaworski
Ranked #97
PPP $540k
Jackson Lewis
Ranked #98
PPP $535k
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Ranked #99
PPP $565k
Dorsey & Whitney
Ranked #100
PPP $485k
Littler Mendelson

Top 200 Law Firms in
Minneapolis, MN*

Ranked #27
PPP $850k
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Ranked #45
PPP $685k
Barnes & Thornburg
Ranked #0
PPP $710k
Cozen O’Connor
NL
Ranked #60
PPP $555k
Dykema Gossett
NL
Ranked #79
PPP $490k
Stoel Rives
Ranked #64
PPP $535k
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Ranked #84
PPP $455k
Kutak Rock