At Stevens & Lee, we welcome lateral shareholders with portable books of business as well as senior counsel with specialized legal expertise. In either case, our priority is to help you grow – either your book of business or your technical niche. Lateral shareholder and senior counsel recruiting is an important investment in and a key component of realizing our strategic agenda. From day one, we work with you to make important connections while integrating you and your practice into our culture of teamwork and excellence. Our goal is to identify and create opportunities for both you and the firm, and we will leverage our firmwide talent and resources to ensure your success.
To achieve your goals, we develop a customized integration and business development plan to guide your success. After initial onboarding, we shift our focus to implementing your business plan to ensure you achieve important milestones and victories. Our process will serve to support your ability to provide superior service to clients, continue to excel in your areas of expertise and build your book of business.
We enjoy highly favorable profits per partner, revenue per lawyer and net income per lawyer. This success is generated by our distinctive approach to the practice of law, client service and environment of camaraderie and mutual respect. We have earned a reputation as a firm with a deep legal bench and strong industry focus. To that end, we continuously invest in understanding the needs of our clients and the industries in which they compete.
Our professional services platform of non-legal businesses, including a FINRA-licensed investment bank, government affairs practice, tax-exempt financial advisory firm, national ESOP firm, insurance risk management business and other businesses create unique opportunities for you to better serve clients. Our multidisciplinary professional services companies provide value for clients and uncommon venues for revenue production and income opportunities for shareholders.
Key elements of the plan include:
Practice group leaders, firm leadership and administration continue to work in concert with you for the first six to 12 months to ensure that momentum continues and integration is deep and seamless.
General – we have several positions for attorneys with 10-20 years of experience who are capable of assuming first-chair responsibilities. We also have openings for service partners with demonstrated expertise in a defined area. Portable books of business – while helpful – are a secondary requirement in both cases.
Practice Groups – due to growth in our core practices, we have high demand for shareholders and counsel/senior associates in Corporate (M&A/Equity/Debt), Health Care (Corp/M&A and regulatory), Litigation and Insurance (regulatory, transactional and various alternative risk formats). In addition, we also have significant needs in Real Estate (land-use and transactional), Tax (federal and state) and Trusts and Estates.
Geography – while we welcome attorneys in all parts of our footprint, Greater Philadelphia, Wilmington and New Jersey are priority markets due to recent and planned growth.
