Palo Alto Legal Recruiters | Legal Recruitment | The Lion Group

Palo Alto, CA ... Where We Find the Lions®

The Lion Group is a Midwest Legal Recruitment Firm based in Palo Alto, 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 Palo Alto, 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 Palo Alto, CA.



Ask These Questions

For Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto, CA

Starting Associate Salary in
Palo Alto, CA ***
$125k - $160k
Palo Alto, CA Founded1884
State CapitalSacramento CA
County for
Palo Alto, CA
Santa Clara County
City Fact about
Palo Alto, CA
Pala Alto includes portions of Stanford University, is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies
City Nickname
Palo Alto, CA
Birthplace of the Silicon Valley
Top Industries
Palo Alto, CA
Education
Technology
Population
Palo Alto, CA
65,412
Density
Palo Alto, CA
0
Top three largest NLJ350 firms' offices by head count
Palo Alto, CA
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Cooley
Morrison & Foerster

Top 100 Law Firms in
Palo Alto, CA*

Ranked #4
PPP $3.25m
Sullivan & Cromwell
Silicon Valley
Ranked #7
PPP $3.0m
Kirkland & Ellis
Silicon Valley
Ranked #8
PPP $2.3m
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Silicon Valley
Ranked #11
PPP $2.6m
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Silicon Valley
Ranked #13
PPP $2.3m
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Silicon Valley
Ranked #20
PPP $1.99m
Paul Hastings
Silicon Valley - No result found
Ranked #26
PPP $1.46m
Sidley Austin
Silicon Valley
Ranked #29
PPP $1.55m
White & Case
Silicon Valley
Ranked #30
PPP $1.6m
Bingham McCutchen
Silicon Valley
Ranked #32
PPP $1.58m
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Silicon Valley
Ranked #34
PPP $1.47m
Ropes & Gray
Silicon Valley
Ranked #35
PPP $1.4m
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Silicon Valley
Ranked #37
PPP $1.56m
Shearman & Sterling
Silicon Valley
Ranked #40
PPP $1.29m
Cooley
Silicon Valley
Ranked #40
PPP $1.29m
Cooley
Silicon Valley
Ranked #44
PPP $1.29m
Morrison & Foerster
Silicon Valley
Ranked #44
PPP $1.35m
Vinson & Elkins
Silicon Valley
Ranked #46
PPP $1.33m
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Silicon Valley
Ranked #49
PPP $1.12m
Arnold & Porter
Silicon Valley -NL
Ranked #50
PPP $1.37m
Baker Botts
Silicon Valley
Ranked #52
PPP $1.49m
Kaye Scholer
Silicon Valley
Ranked #56
PPP $1.22m
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Silicon Valley
Ranked #59
PPP $1.03m
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Silicon Valley
Ranked #60
PPP $1.07m
Mayer Brown
Silicon Valley
Ranked #61
PPP $1.04m
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Silicon Valley
Ranked #62
PPP $1.12m
Hogan Lovells
Silicon Valley
Ranked #63
PPP $1.12m
Baker & McKenzie
Silicon Valley
Ranked #64
PPP $1.05m
Reed Smith
Silicon Valley
Ranked #67
PPP $900k
Perkins Coie
Silicon Valley
Ranked #69
PPP $900k
Foley & Lardner
Silicon Valley
Ranked #75
PPP $820k
Jones Day
Silicon Valley
Ranked #77
PPP $930k
K&L Gates
Silicon Valley
Ranked #84
PPP $765k
Squire Sanders
Silicon Valley - NL
Ranked #85
PPP $825k
SNR Denton
Silicon Valley
Ranked #87
PPP $670k
Nixon Peabody
Silicon Valley
Ranked #99
PPP $565k
Dorsey & Whitney
Silicon Valley

Top 200 Law Firms in
Palo Alto, CA*

Ranked #10
PPP $1.26m
Lowenstein Sandler
Silicon Valley
Ranked #12
PPP $1.16m
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Silicon Valley
Ranked #17
PPP $1.0m
Dickstein Shapiro
Silicon Valley
Ranked #24
PPP $920k
Kenyon & Kenyon
Silicon Valley
Ranked #66
PPP $530k
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear
Silicon Valley