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New York, NY ... Where We Find the Lions®

The Lion Group is a Midwest Legal Recruitment Firm based in New York, NY 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 New York, NY 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 New York, NY.



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For New York 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 New York 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 New York, NY

Starting Associate Salary in
New York, NY ***
$125k - $160k
New York, NY Founded1624
State CapitalAlbany NY
County for
New York, NY
Bronx County
City Fact about
New York, NY
The most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.
City Nickname
New York, NY
The Big Apple
Top Industries
New York, NY
Finance & Services
Media
Entertainment & Telecommunications
Population
New York, NY
8,245,000
Density
New York, NY
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Top three largest NLJ350 firms' offices by head count
New York, NY
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Davis Polk & Wardwell

Top 100 US Law Schools in
New York, NY**

Ranked #4Columbia University
Ranked #6New York University
Ranked #38Fordham University
Ranked #58Yeshiva University (Cardozo)

Top 100 ATL Law Schools in
New York, NY*^

Ranked #8Columbia Law School
Ranked #10New York University
Ranked #48Fordham University School of Law

Top 100 Law Firms in
New York, NY*

Ranked #1
PPP $4.3m
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Ranked #2
PPP $3.6m
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Ranked #3
PPP $3.23m
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Ranked #4
PPP $3.25m
Sullivan & Cromwell
Ranked #5
PPP $3.17m
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Ranked #674
PPP $3.0m
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Ranked #7
PPP $3.0m
Kirkland & Ellis
Ranked #8
PPP $2.3m
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Ranked #9
PPP $2.5m
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Ranked #10
PPP $2.6m
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Ranked #11
PPP $2.6m
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Ranked #12
PPP $2.4m
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Ranked #13
PPP $2.3m
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Ranked #14
PPP $2.2m
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ranked #15
PPP $2.5m
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Ranked #16
PPP $1.99m
Latham & Watkins
Ranked #17
PPP $2.3m
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Ranked #18
PPP $2.0m
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Ranked #19
PPP $2.0m
Dechert
Ranked #20
PPP $1.99m
Paul Hastings
Ranked #21
PPP $2.0m
Debevoise & Plimpton
Ranked #22
PPP $2.0m
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Ranked #23
PPP $1.53m
OMelveny & Myers
Ranked #24
PPP $1.7m
King & Spalding
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 #31
PPP $1.69m
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Ranked #32
PPP $1.58m
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Ranked #33
PPP $1.46m
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Ranked #34
PPP $1.47m
Ropes & Gray
Ranked #35
PPP $1.4m
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Ranked #36
PPP $1.6m
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Ranked #37
PPP $1.56m
Shearman & Sterling
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 #43
PPP $1.6m
Fish & Richardson
Ranked #44
PPP $1.29m
Morrison & Foerster
Ranked #44
PPP $1.35m
Vinson & Elkins
Ranked #46
PPP $1.46m
McDermott Will & Emery
Ranked #46
PPP $1.33m
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Ranked #48
PPP $1.02m
Bracewell & Giuliani
Ranked #49
PPP $1.12m
Arnold & Porter
Ranked #50
PPP $1.37m
Baker Botts
Ranked #50
PPP $1.32m
Greenberg Traurig
Ranked #52
PPP $1.49m
Kaye Scholer
No result found in Regional Report
Ranked #53
PPP $1.59m
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Ranked #54
PPP $1.13m
DLA Piper
Ranked #54
PPP $1.19m
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Ranked #56
PPP $1.15m
Covington & Burling
Ranked #56
PPP $1.22m
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Ranked #60
PPP $1.07m
Mayer Brown
Ranked #61
PPP $1.04m
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Ranked #62
PPP $1.12m
Hogan Lovells
Ranked #63
PPP $1.12m
Baker & McKenzie
Ranked #64
PPP $1.05m
Reed Smith
Ranked #65
PPP $980k
Locke Lord
Ranked #66
PPP $1.01m
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Ranked #67
PPP $900k
Perkins Coie
Ranked #68
PPP $910k
Steptoe & Johnson
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 #77
PPP $930k
K&L Gates
No result found in Regional Report
Ranked #79
PPP $830k
Duane Morris
Ranked #80
PPP $860k
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
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 $740k
Haynes and Boone
Ranked #87
PPP $670k
Nixon Peabody
Ranked #89
PPP $690k
Blank Rome
The Chrysler Building
Ranked #90
PPP $705k
Bryan Cave
Ranked #91
PPP $885k
Patton Boggs
Ranked #92
PPP $720k
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Ranked #93
PPP $660k
Drinker Biddle & Reath
Ranked #95
PPP $705k
Troutman Sanders
Ranked #96
PPP $735k
Edwards Wildman Palmer
Ranked #97
PPP $540k
Jackson Lewis
Ranked #99
PPP $565k
Dorsey & Whitney
Ranked #100
PPP $485k
Littler Mendelson

Top 200 Law Firms in
New York, NY*

Ranked #0
PPP $1.8m
BuckleySandler
Ranked #2
PPP $1.85m
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman
Ranked #6
PPP $1.4m
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Ranked #3
PPP $1.6m
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Ranked #5
PPP $1.45m
Loeb & Loeb
Ranked #10
PPP $1.26m
Lowenstein Sandler
Ranked #12
PPP $1.16m
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Ranked #0
PPP $1.23m
Chadbourne & Parke
Ranked #14
PPP $1.1m
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Ranked #13
PPP $1.1m
Andrews Kurth
Ranked #8
PPP $1.3m
Brown Rudnick
Ranked #19
PPP $975k
Chapman and Cutler
Ranked #18
PPP $1.0m
Stevens & Lee
Ranked #21
PPP $950k
Thompson & Knight
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 #30
PPP $840k
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter
Ranked #29
PPP $845k
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Ranked #31
PPP $840k
Schiff Hardin
Ranked #37
PPP $755k
Gibbons
Ranked #32
PPP $800k
Arent Fox
Ranked #46
PPP $685k
Sullivan & Worcester
Ranked #28
PPP $850k
Sills Cummis & Gross
NL
Ranked #38
PPP $745k
Carlton Fields
Ranked #39
PPP $745k
Vedder Price
Ranked #27
PPP $850k
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Ranked #24
PPP $920k
Kenyon & Kenyon
Ranked #51
PPP $660k
Sedgwick
Ranked #43
PPP $695k
Gordon & Rees
Ranked #23
PPP $935k
Herrick, Feinstein
Ranked #0
PPP $710k
Cozen O’Connor
Ranked #50
PPP $660k
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Ranked #69
PPP $525k
Goulston & Storrs
Ranked #54
PPP $630k
Polsinelli
Ranked #59
PPP $560k
Epstein Becker & Green
Ranked #57
PPP $565k
Fox Rothschild
Ranked #58
PPP $560k
Day Pitney
Ranked #35
PPP $775k
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
Ranked #80
PPP $465k
Akerman Senterfitt
Ranked #71
PPP $525k
Thompson Hine
Ranked #49
PPP $665k
McCarter & English
Ranked #74
PPP $515k
Saul Ewing
NL
Ranked #64
PPP $535k
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Ranked #76
PPP $495k
Davis Wright Tremaine
Ranked #94
PPP $425k
Lathrop & Gage
Ranked #78
PPP $490k
Robinson & Cole
Ranked #91
PPP $435k
Miller Canfield
Ranked #0
PPP $410k
Strasburger & Price
Ranked #0
PPP $370k
LeClairRyan
Ranked #0
PPP $460k
Roetzel & Andress
NL