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Buchalter Welcomes New Health Care Shareholder in San Diego…
July 27 2021. Buchalter is pleased to announce the addition of Shareholder David Balfour, and welcome him to the Firm’s...
00Winston & Strawn Adds M&A Partner Khoa Do in Silicon Valley
MENLO PARK, CA – June 21, 2021 – Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Khoa...
Employment and labor litigator joins Norton Rose Fulbright in Dallas
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that veteran employment and labor litigator Tom Reddin has joined its...
High-stakes Business Litigation Partner Arash Beral joins Blank Rome…
January 4, 2021 Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Arash Beral has joined the Firm’s Los Angeles office as a...
Real Estate and Bankruptcy Attorney Steven Smith Joins Dorsey
November 20, 2020 International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that real estate and bankruptcy attorney Steven...
Greenberg Traurig Continues Expansion of Real Estate Practice in Philadelphia, Adds Jon Robins…
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 4 2020 — Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the strategic growth of its real estate practice, with the addition...
Joseph A. Escarez, Esq. – Joins Theodora Oringher PC…
08/07/2020 Theodora Oringher is pleased to welcome Joseph Escarez as a senior attorney in the Firm’s Century City Office...
Gibson Dunn adds Ken Parker to Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Practice Group…
Gibson Dunn adds Ken Parker to Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mr. Parker is a first-chair trial...
Greenberg Traurig Continues Expansion of Real Estate Practice in Philadelphia, Adds Jon Robins
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 4 2020 — Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the strategic growth of its real estate practice, with the addition...
Norton Rose Fulbright bolsters employment and labor practice in California…
Press release – Business | March 18, 2020 Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Joshua M. Henderson has joined its...
New Year, New Shareholders Join Buchalter
LOS ANGELES, Calif., January 14, 2020 – Buchalter is pleased to announce that it has added two new Shareholders…
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Continues Expansion with Launch of an IP Group and the Opening of a San Diego Office…
Jun 21, 2019 Los Angeles, June 20, 2019 – With an already significant presence throughout California, Burke, Williams &...
Greenspoon Marder Expands Los Angeles Office With Addition Of New Partner Germain Labat
LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Greenspoon Marder is pleased to announce the expansion of the firm’s Los...
Buchalter Welcomes Two New Shareholders
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 4, 2019 – Buchalter is pleased to welcome both Daniel Wu, Litigation Shareholder in the Firm’s...
Buchalter Adds Litigation Partner Daniel Rygorsky to Los Angeles Office…
LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 8, 2018 – Buchalter is pleased to announce that it has added Litigation Shareholder Daniel...
Greenberg Traurig Continues Strategic Growth of Litigation and Trial Practices, Adds J. David Bournazian in Orange County, California
ORANGE COUNTY, CA – August 30, 2018 – The Orange County office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP...
BARNES & THORNBURG’S DALLAS OFFICE ADDS LITIGATORS CASTLE AND WELTON
Dallas – Robert Castle and Jamie Welton, two experienced commercial litigators, have joined Barnes & Thornburg as partners in...
Life Sciences Litigator Tom Sullivan Moves to Shook
Shook, Hardy & Bacon adds litigator Thomas J. Sullivan to the firm as partner. A strategic thinker whose industry...
Steve Camp and Financial Services Group joins Husch Blackwell
APRIL 2, 2018 – Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce the firm has added 14 Texas-based lawyers—including eight partners—to...
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has strengthened its insurance litigation capabilities with the addition of James E. Fitzgerald…
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has strengthened its insurance litigation capabilities with the addition of James E. Fitzgerald as...
Published Articles
Esquire Co-Host Daily Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in Beverly Hills
The Daily Journal hosted a reception in Beverly Hills Wednesday night (9/9/15) for California’s 100 leading attorneys. The event...
The Official Sponsor of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers in California” (2014 & 2015)
Click Here to see the Top 100 Honorees Click Here to see the Photos of the Reception
Diversity Among Leaders: A Long Way To Go
By Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal About 19 years ago, a partner who was thinking of moving her practice called...
Your Career: Merger Mania
Sandy Lechtick, The Recorder January 31, 2014 “I feel the earth move under my feet, the sky tumbling down………”...
Hot lateral market keeps pace in 2013
by Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal Sandy Lechtick is president and founder of Esquire, Inc., a Los Angeles based legal...
Think like an owner
by Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal As a kid growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s, my...
The Lateral Market
2011 prospects looks promising, but many challenges remain If one were to look at the number of partner moves...
Competing for a Piece of The Pie in 2010
By Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal Wei-Chi. Two little words, two powerful thoughts. Loosely translated from a Chinese symbol, the...
A Shifting Paradigm
By: Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal As I was watching a speedboat zip across the crystal clear Cabo San Lucas...
Only Those Who Master the Art of the Hustle Will Survive
by Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal FIRM GUIDANCE If one eye is king in the land of blind, the hustler...
Will Law Firms Be on Cloud ’09?
By Sandford A. Lechtick Daily Journal Fasten your seat belts. This year is going to be another bumpy, rocky...
The War on Talent
By Sandford A. Lechtic Daily Journal The fight for talent is more intense and more ferocious than I’ve seen...
Tripwire
Clifford Chance, the largest law firm in the world, had major ambitions for the Golden State, only to stumble...
On a Tightrope
Next year promises to be much better for the remaining firms that the past three years, especially for the...
Trading Spaces
Law firms that respond quickly and decisively to the changing legal landscape will avoid any of the mistakes their...
The Real Reason Partners Change Firms
The Ten Inertia Busters by Sandy Lechtick Daily Journal Many firms currently are lsoing their best and brightest partners....
Manifest Destiny
Southern California has become the place for Branch Offices By Sandford A. Lechtick Los Angeles Business Journal California here...
So What is in a Title?
You gotta be kidding the response we got when the equity partner turned down $450K offer because the title...
Not the Next Latham & Watkins
By Sandford A. Lechtick American Lawyer ̀Bad Moon Rising was not only well written, well researched and quite accurate,...
Media Quotes
Sandy Lechtick, president of the legal recruiting firm Esquire Inc., noted that the Meyers Nave has made a name for itself in Plaza’s areas of expertise.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Meyers Nave nabs former HUD assistant secretary from Gerard Fox By Nicolas Sonnenburg Daily Journal...
“Almost every single firm in California is trying to expand their transactional practices,” Lechtick said.
Friday, March 24, 2017 Baker & Hostetler strengthens business and corporate, tax practice in Costa Mesa Baker & Hostetler...
Alston & Bird LLP made a strong play in California this week by opening a San Francisco office and expanding the headcount in its Los Angeles branch…
Alston & Bird open SF office, add lawyers in LA By Eli Wolfe Daily Journal Staff Writer Alston &...
“It can raise eyebrows when you have the managing partner get up and leave,” said Sandy Lechtick, a recruiter at Esquire Legal Search…
Arent Fox bouncing back from double partner loss By Eli Wolfe Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES — Arent...
Sandy Lechtick, a legal recruiter with Esquire Inc., said O’Brien was the architect behind the growth at Arent Fox and shocked many when he left. A core group at Arent Fox followed O’Brien to his new firm.
====================== Thursday, August 25, 2016 New downtown LA firm adds former Pillsbury partner By Justin Kloczko Daily Journal Staff...
The merger for Carrol Burdick was never a question of if, but when, and with whom, according to Esquire Search legal recruiter Sandy Lechtick
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Squire Patton Boggs merges with smaller San Fransisco firm By Justin Kloczko Daily Journal Staff...
“Equity partners should think like equity partners. They’re an owner of their firm, and in this increasingly bottom-line environment, even owners are vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the market,” said Sandy Lechtick of Esquire Inc.
The 4 Biggest Blunders Equity Partners Make By Andrew McIntyre Law360, Los Angeles (September 15, 2015, 7:48 PM ET)...
“Some firms have outsourced a lot of their administrative and technology functions,” Lechtick said.
Monday, July 6, 2015 Legal industry sheds 800 jobs in June National legal sector saw 800 fewer jobs...
More than 80 law firms combined in 2014 – “On one hand, business is getting better and there’s been an upswing, but more lawyers seem to be competing for lesser work,” said Sandy Lechtick, legal consultant and president at Esquire Inc.
============================= More than 80 law firms combined in 2014 Report: tie-ups remain popular moves, especially in western, southern states...
“When a firm is perceived to be wounded – they’ve had bad financials, or a lot of defections…”
“ANOTHER RECORD YEAR FOR LAW FIRM MARRIAGES” . ====================== Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Another record year for law...
L.A. based legal recruiter Sandy Lechtick said his company has roughly a dozen law firms that want to expand their real estate practices, both in development and land use as well as in the finance and banking side of real estate.
Friday, October 17, 2014 Real estate practices feeling the aftermath of slow recessionary hiring Now that business has picked...
“Woodcock likely had a number of options of firms to merger with…”
“Woodcock likely had a number of options of firms to merger with,” said L.A.-based legal recruiter Sandy Lechtick, whose…
Follow the Bouncing Ball
Four times a week, Lechtick can be found down at Allen & Sons table tennis club in Canoga Park.
McKenna Long’s future in state murky
“A lot of people were less enchanted with moving to that firm after those closures,” he said. “The feeling…
Akerman Senterfitt struggles for footing in Los Angeles
Most of the firm’s shareholders leave as it struggles to find a niche, but leaders are hopeful as it…
Heated Courtship for Top Lawyers
Rivals rush in to grab high‐profile talent from flopped firms. By LEE Monday The phone calls started coming in January. At first it was just a handful a week, but...
Five attorneys move to LeClairRyan in LA
Virginia-based LeClairRyan has added five attorneys to its Los Angeles office to bolster its intellectual property practice. James…
Legal sector sheds jobs for second month in a row
However, California added 700 legal jobs from March to April, according to report By Alexandra Schwappach Daily Journal Staff...
Inland Empire struggles to retain young lawyers
By Katie Lucia Daily Journal Staff Writer RIVERSIDE – Many law students go through the rigors of law school...